Kevin Harlan: A Life Full of Sports

The Rich Eisen Show

ESPN

Sports

4.3 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On this episode Rich sits down with Kevin Harlan of CBS Sports and Westwood One's Monday Night Football broadcast. Kevin, who has had a life filled with sports, talks about growing up as the son of Bob Harlan, a former executive with the Green Bay Packers and how a personal recommendation from broadcaster Gary Bender to his dad led Kevin to attend the University of Kansas and its School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Plus, Kevin talks about how a letter to the great John Facenda resulted in an amazing compliment. All that and more in today's episode of Just Getting Started with Rich Eisen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you hear that?
0:05.5	It might sound like nothing to you, but it's actually the sound of nuclear, wind and
0:10.0	solar energy.
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0:16.8	keep future energy costs down for everyone and help cut UK carbon emissions to nothing.
0:22.6	Sound good to you?
0:24.2	Find out more about our zero carbon generation at EDFenergy.com slash help in Britain.
0:30.5	And the biggest problem we have in this business, the higher you go in it, is being envious
0:34.4	of this job assignment, or where this guy is on the totem pole, or with this guy is doing
0:39.1	what you're not doing, how much money this person's making and what you're not making.
0:43.3	Just be thankful you're doing, there are thousands that are lined up to do what you're
0:47.5	doing.
0:48.5	Be thankful.
0:49.5	Don't be envious.
0:50.7	Be thankful.
0:51.7	And that is how I am.
0:53.5	I am so thankful that I have been lucky enough to be in this business.
1:03.1	Welcome to the latest episode of this just getting started about the voices of the National
1:09.4	Football League already.
1:11.6	We've had Al Michaels and we've had Joe Buck of NBC Sports and Fox Sports respectively
1:16.4	tell us about how their careers in broadcasting just got started and also some neat stories
1:22.9	along the way leading to a great piece of advice that they've received in their careers
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