Lee Corso to be honored at Espys

The countdown to Lee Corso's last appearance in Espn's “College Gameday” will begin when the long -time analyst and former coach are honored with the Espys on Wednesday evening.

“This is a unique opportunity that we can weave into the evening and really send it with complete awards,” said the President of Content Burke Magnus von ESPN. “To get him there personally to see all of his contributions and what he can see for the company and the sport, but what is even more important is to start your departure.”

Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and Pat McAfee will think about Corso before a video tribute is broadcast. Corso then has a few minutes to be recognized by the crowd in the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.

Corso – The lonely remaining member of the original occupation of the show, which became in August 90 – announced at the beginning of this year that his last show in the opening week of the season would be. ESPN revealed last month that the 39th season of “Gameday” in Columbus, Ohio, would begin before the National Champion Ohio State organized the Texas Longhorns on August 30th.

Corso's Popular headgear segment Started on October 5, 1996 in the state of Ohio, before the Buckeyes were faced with Penn State. Since then he has gone 286-144 in 430 selections, from helmets and mascot heads to the fighting Irish goblin from Notre Dame, Stanford Tree and the historical characters James Madison and Benjamin Franklin. He wore 69 mascot covering of the different school.

His television career was a stroke in 2009, in which he could no longer speak for a while. Although his appearances on the street decreased in the last seasons, he was in Atlanta in January for the national title game of College Football Playoffs between Ohio State and Notre Dame.

“With the popularity and the cultural phenomenon that became” gameday “, nobody is responsible for this as Lee Corso. The way he changed the way in which play with disrespect, humor, the lack of a filter, all these things that have determined the sound and the standard,” said “Gameday” hosts.

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