Dan Patrick will go down in historical past as some of the prolific broadcasters in ESPN’s historical past.
He co-hosted “SportsCenter” alongside Keith Olbermann all through the Nineties, and so they had been additionally later side-by-side at NBC.
The 2 shall be ceaselessly linked after their reign at ESPN.
Olbermann labored on and off at ESPN till 2018 and now hosts his personal political podcast, whereas Patrick nonetheless hosts a sports activities present.
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Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick broadcast forward of the 2009 Tremendous Bowl. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photograph Financial institution/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photos)
Their careers and their relationship have diverged since their final broadcast collectively, Patrick says, including they did not even socialize a lot whereas they had been coworkers.
However Patrick nonetheless has excessive reward for his former colleague.
“I nonetheless have nice respect for him. He is the perfect teammate I ever had on ‘SportsCenter.’ He actually mastered it. He was nice at it,” Patrick advised OutKick’s Dan Dakich.
Patrick says massive wigs at their very own community did not want them success.
Former MSNBC star Keith Olbermann appeared to finish his subscription to The New York Instances after seeing studies the outlet’s writer had been slamming President Biden for dodging interviews. (Getty Photos)
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“Perceive, on the time, administration didn’t need us to succeed the way in which we succeeded. Within the notorious phrases of one in all my bosses, ‘We do not need one other [Chris] Berman,'” Patrick stated. “Chris had gotten so massive that he had type of escaped.
“So, they wished the 4 letters to be essential, not us. I keep in mind Keith had this mindset of, ‘F them. We’re going to have enjoyable with this.’ We obtained yelled at a pair occasions, pulled into conferences a pair occasions. They did not embrace it.
“As a result of the 4 letters had been extra essential than every other expertise, and so they wished to let you recognize that. That was very humbling, as a result of we had been doing a little various things, and we had modified ‘SportsCenter’ just a little bit, and so they did not embrace it.
“Even now, my former boss nonetheless offers credit score to Bob Ley and Chris Berman altering ‘SportsCenter’ or no matter, not Keith and myself, which, OK, that is wonderful. I do know that is not true, however it was type of unhappy they nonetheless cannot acknowledge what we did after we did it.”
Keith Olbermann speaks on the ESPN portion of the 2013 Summer season Tv Critics Affiliation tour on the Beverly Hilton Resort July 24, 2013. in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Photos)
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Patrick left ESPN in 2007.
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