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Former ESPN college football commentator releases statement following move to FOX Sports
FOX Sports stole one of ESPN’s “rising stars” of broadcasting in Adam Amin.
In a move first reported by the New York Post nearly 3 weeks ago, the commentator is leaving ESPN after being with the company since 2011.
Amin served as a lead commentator for ESPN’s college football coverage on Thursday nights in addition to having calling duties with MLB, NBA, college basketball and the Women’s Final Four. He’ll be moving on to FOX Sports where he’ll call NFL or college football games, as well as MLB games.
Amin released a very classy statement to his former company and its colleagues Wednesday.
A thank you note to my @ESPN family, if you’d be so kind as to indulge my ego for a moment. pic.twitter.com/f0YsfOcSpx
— Adam Amin (@adamamin) May 27, 2020
Don’t know him
So you never watched Thursday night college football? The guy is pretty decent.
Dude he was really good. I’m sure you’d recognize his voice. He’s had some really memorable calls over the years. Really likable guy too.
ESPN will find another PC corporate clone. I sure miss the fun days of Dan Patrick, Olbermann, Stu Scott, Charlie Steiner and Craig Kilborn.
Olbermann was the biggest political hack of them all. His liberal views were always on full display. The others weren’t bad.
I don’t remember Olbermann being overtly political at ESPN. At MSNBC – yes. But him and Patrick were a great tandem on Sportscenter. Quick wit, good one-liners.
He was great when he stuck with sports. He just couldn’t do that.
He wasn’t political in his sports center role
I’m with you on Dan Patrick, Stu Scott, and Steiner. But I never cared for Olbermann, at ESPN it’s like he tried harder to be a smart ass about everything and to everyone rather than have a professional approach like the others you mentioned. I always felt Olbermann was just too fake and would be better delivering news on Saturday Night Live than real tv.
I’ve never heard of him either, but respect anybody who begins their twitter monologue with “apologies for the narcissism”.