Floyd Reese has died at the age of 73. Jared Stillman, Reese’s former co-host on 102.5 The Game in Nashville, broke the news on Saturday via Twitter.
Reese moved to Tennessee along with the Houston Oilers in 1997. He spent 21 seasons with the organization. He began as general manager of the Houston Oilers and then added Executive VP to his title in 1994.
After leaving the team in 2006, Floyd Reese joined ESPN as an analyst. He then returned to the NFL for a brief time as a senior football advisor for the New England Patriots. Reese moved into sports radio in 2016, when George Plaster added him as a co-host on Sports Night on 102.5 The Game.
“Floyd was a lot of fun to work with,” Plaster told The Tennessean. “He just brought unique perspectives to the sports talk radio world that none of us could have ever brought because he’d been in those wars. He knew what negotiating player contracts was all about and when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em. We can talk about all that stuff all we want, but he had lived it.”
Reese left radio at the end of 2020. He was inducted into the Titans’ Ring of Honor in July. 102.5 The Game has announced that much of Monday’s programming will focus on honoring the legacy and impact made by their former colleague.
