Berman: My ambitions were pretty lofty - hoping to be doing
TV sports by 25, to be the voice of my favorite team, the San
Francisco Giants, and also to be Brent Musberger, who was the host
of TV football. Guess what? I was on TV by 24, I do Major League
Baseball, and I'm going into my 19th straight year doing the
NFL. I
pinch myself every day. I'm 49, came to ESPN at 24, over half my
life I've been on ESPN. We all look different 25 years on - I was a
lot skinnier with a lot more hair, but these things happen.
Cohn: With ESPN, there was finally a place where all us
passionate fanatics could get together and talk sports. Viewers
would see the fan in us. It's cool when people who are like you
come up to you, and you realize there are other crazy fans like
you.
top 5 espn memories
chris berman
the night cal ripken passed lou gehrig's consecutive game streak (i
announced that game)
"the catch" -
joe montana to dwight clark (i was on
the five-yard line
at candlestick
park)
i was in candlestick's upper deck, sitting next to
joe torre during
the world series that got interrupted by the quake [of 1989].
two of the last three super bowls, in which
adam vinatieri has hit
two game-winning field goals
i reported when walter payton passed away, and that was a
shock.
dan patrick
the night espn's jim valvano died and i did sportscenter
that night
the two indians pitchers who were killed in a boating accident in
spring training
the night mickey mantle died
pete rose being banned from baseball
the first
sportscenter i did with keith olbermann - we were
probably
oscar and felix, but when we got
on tv, it melted away
linda cohn
the new york rangers winning the stanley cup in 1994 after 54 years
being a new york sports fan who hates the rival teams - i love the
mets - so watching arizona beat the yankees in the 2001 world
series