The countdown of the last appearance of Lee Corso on ESPN “College Gameday” begins when the longtime analyst and former coach will be honored at the ESPY on Wednesday evening.
“This is a unique opportunity that we must weave it in the evening and really start the process of sending with full honors,” said ESPN president Burke Magnus. “To bring him in person to recognize all his contributions and what he meant both for the company and the sports, but more importantly to the fans, we simply think that it is an appropriate way to launch his departure.”
Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and Pat McAfee will give their opinion on Corso before a video tribute is broadcast. Corso will then have a few minutes to recognize by the crowd at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
CORSO – The only remaining member of the original distribution of the program which will be 90 years old in August – announced earlier this year that its final program would be the opening week of the season. ESPN last month revealed that the 39th season of “Gameday” would start in Columbus, Ohio, before the defending national champion of the Ohio State, Texas Longhorns on August 30.
Corso Popular headgear segment Begun at Ohio State on October 5, 1996, before Buckeyes faced Penn State. Since then, he went 286-144 in 430 selections bearing everything, helmets and mascot heads to disguise himself as Irish of Notre Dame, the Stanford tree and the historic figures James Madison and Benjamin Franklin. He worn 69 Mascot chef of the different school.
His television career resisted a stroke in 2009 which left him unable to speak for a while. Even if his appearances on the road have decreased in recent seasons in recent seasons, he was in Atlanta in January for the national national game of the university football playoffs between Ohio State and Notre Dame.
“With the popularity and the cultural phenomenon that” Gameday “has become, there is no more responsible for this than Lee Corso. The way he changed the way the game was covered by irreverence, humor, lack of filter, all these things that set the tone and the norm, “said host” Gameday “, host Davis.
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