Robert Griffin III and Rich Eisen remembered Stuart Scott on a recent episode of ‘RG3 and The Ones.’ Scott, the legendary ESPN sportscaster, passed away exactly nine years ago on this date.
Scott was diagnosed with cancer in 2007 and became a major advocate for research before he passed away in 2014 at the age of 49.
Eisen teamed up with Scott as one of the most memorable SportsCenter anchor teams in history and told RG3, “I will always talk about Stuart. Keeping his memory and spirit alive, is something I’m up for doing.” He then told Griffin, “He would love to see what you’re doing right now.”
Eisen would go on to say, “What you saw on TV was the guy, that was it. That was him. There was no filter, it was not an act. It literally was him.”
Teaming together, Eisen had the chance to see Stuart Scott’s rise to enourmous heights in both sports and pop-culture. “It was awesome to watch,” he said. “It really was. Just to see him do his thing and be himself, an authentic self and have a front row seat to it was something to behold.”
Eisen relates a funny, behind-the-scenes, bit about Scott never letting him do a Michael Jordan highlight so that he could be the one to handle those.
“He was special, he really was,” Eisen said of his former teammate.
Griffin III added: “He meant a lot to me. Just as a guy we looked up to. You inspired us, but Stuart was us. When I got an opportunity to go pro and meet him and talk with him it meant the world to me. So much so, that when he passed, I made sure that I got a portrait made of him for his daughters, Sydni and Taelor. Just to show them that even a guy like myself who was in the NFL…was still impacted by their dad.”
In a fitting conclusion to his interview with Rich Eisen, RG3 added, “He really was cooler than the other side of the pillow and I think everybody in our community, not just the media community, but also the black community, really appreciated the flair he brought to broadcast TV.”
