Olin Kreutz was involved in a physical altercation at the CHGO offices earlier this year. He is finally opening up about the event, speaking to the Chicago Sun Times this week.
The former Bears center was fired after reportedly grabbing the throat of his colleague Adam Home during an argument. Kreutz said that he has reached out to Home privately and apologized to others in the building.
“There were some people in their building — obviously, I don’t blame them — that weren’t comfortable with me being there anymore,” he said. “I have my side of the story of what I thought happened. You could tell by what I put on Twitter what I thought happened there; it just inflamed the situation.”
After the news became public, Olin Kreutz took to Twitter. He quoted Mike Tyson, posting a message that read “Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”
He admits that in hindsight, it made the situation worse.
However, Kreutz says that as far as he and Hoge are concerned, he believes things are better.
“I like to remember the fact that when we walked out — and I don’t want to speak for Adam; he has to speak for himself — we shook hands. Adam actually wanted to continue the podcast. And I said no. I thought my time was done there. I thought that that was enough for me already.”
CHGO said that Kreutz had been fired. He disputes that.
“I had already decided that my time was up at CHGO just because of some things that I thought were unprofessional in the way they ran their business. That was my decision. And like I told my kids, man, you do something like that, you pay the penalty. You take the punishment, and then you try to become a better person and try to learn from every situation.”
In addition to losing his position with CHGO, Kreutz also lost his job at NBC Sports Chicago. He will not return to the network’s Football Aftershow during the NFL season.
Olin Kreutz also contributed to 670 The Score. That station has yet to determine his future there.
Football After show here is now done …
Lawrence Holmes is gone, now Olin Kreutz is gone
Enjoy Kaplin, & Briggs…