Why jim rome left espn

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Home Contact us. Already a subscriber? John comes, looks at me, and says, 'You're going to ruin the journalistic integrity of this network, which we've built up all these years. We're finally getting to a point where we are the real deal in sports journalism, and this guy's going to blow it all in a week on the air.

So the meeting ends, Steve asks me to stick around, and says to me, 'Can't we just find some other guy? It's not worth this fight with John. The next generation of bubbly Save time, money, and ultimately help save the planet by forgoing your La Croix. In , Rome did have an on-air confrontation with former Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jim Everett in which Rome baited Everett into attacking him physically. The video can be seen here:. On pages of the book, Walsh recounts his reaction to the episode:.

Exactly what I was worried about with this guy. Mark Shapiro [then a production assistant who would eventually become ESPN's executive vice president for programming] called and got me out of my fantasy baseball draft in New York to tell me what happened.

He just said, 'Hey, you should know this happened. He walked off the set. I just snapped. Walsh said Rome went too far but would not be punished for his actions. Wait wait…they said athlete? Did we get this guy on a plane and fly him in so I could badger him and call him Chris and make it horrible for everybody?

Some said the interview was staged. To this day, mention Rome or Everett, and that interview always comes up. It came up again this week on social media.