Molly Qerim reveals Chris Russo’s First Take notes, which create more questions than answers
"This is the most insane thing I've ever seen."
"This is the most insane thing I've ever seen."
"When they speak on my name and they’re talking about potential teams I’m going to, can you all please stop paying attention to that?"
"I love Herbstreit too! Michaels is going to the Hall of Fame, but now we gotta flex THE Amazon?"
"It was my idea and he went along with it."
"Steve Ballmer and the Los Angeles Clippers should force Kawhi Leonard to retire."
"Remember, I went to school in Florida, so if anybody knows Disney World, it’s me."
"Put ‘em in the New York City subway system, there’s less rats!"
"That is a disgrace! You should be ashamed of yourself. Ashamed."
Russo may have had a bad take, but it’s not a fireable offense.
"16 years have gone by and it finally hit me recently, I can’t do it anymore. I gotta spend time with my kids."
"I needed a gummy, a couple of cocktails and ‘Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.’ What could go wrong with that?"
"They’re making this at-bat out to be the greatest at-bat in the history of Major League Baseball! It’s March 21st! Can we take it easy?!"
Chris Russo will continue yelling on-air with Stephen A. Smith for the next year.
"They bring luggage! They bring tuna fish sandwiches! They bring black coffee that spills all over the place!"
"Can Aaron Rodgers, for once in his life, make a decision quickly and succinctly, without being such a diva?”
"The idea that I’m disrespecting older players for questioning media narratives around that era, that’s not disrespect."
"Redick doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about. What basketball were you watching to say something as idiotic as that?"
"He was a terrific storyteller, he had tremendous insight into the game."
"We disagreed a lot. Sometimes I think things went over the line."
"I saw the games and I was at the games, you were not! You’re watching them on YouTube!"
"He can’t do anything about Rye-Anna"
Tom Brady retired and ESPN’s foremost debate show spent two hours giving America a Mike and the Mad Dog history lesson.
"It takes a certain personality and a certain mindset to be good as an analyst. I don’t think he’s gonna be a great analyst."
"I’m not going to leave Sirius, let’s put it that way"
"I used the wrong word. I don’t know, it came to me. Stupid"