ESPN Broadcaster Mike Tirico on Broadcasting Kobe Bryant"s Farewell Game & More - 4/14/16
By: Andrew Joseph| June 30, 2016 9:31 pmFollow @andyj0seph
Mike Tirico appeared on ESPN for the final time Thursday, as he is set to join NBC Sports on July 1.
Tirico, who has been with ESPN for 25 years, workedthe networks Euro 2016 coverage on location in Paris. With a stunning backdrop of Paris, ESPNs Bob Ley sat down with Tirico and wished him the best on his new venture.
The ESPN crew surprised Tirico on Wednesday with a going-away gathering. He thanked Ley and his colleagues for that and all the memories.
Tirico said:
This has been great. Top to bottom. I think twenty-fiveyears is something like over nine-thousand days. Every one of those days ESPN has been a part of my life. Ill never forget I did the SportsCenter about Week Twoof doing SportsCenter back in the nineties. Chris Berman was doing a baseball game in California the hotel California. And he said, Bob Ley and Mike Tirico. Bob, youre breaking in another one. Well, thank you for breaking me in.
His fellow Euro 2016 co-hosts then joined him on the set to send him off after a tremendous tenure with ESPN.
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