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Four months after his dramatic firing from ESPN, the former NFL star Robert Griffin III he insisted that it was only water under the bridge.
Griffin, 34, was launch network in August after signing a multi-year contract in 2021. He replaced him Jason Kelce as co-host of ESPN’s Monday night countdown at the start of the 2024 NFL season.
In an exclusive interview with My WeeklyGriffin explained how he turned a public exam into a private lesson.
“There’s no bad blood for me,” said Griffin, who spoke to us through his partnership with USAA before the Army-Navy football game on Saturday, Dec. 14. “Listen, at the end of the day the reception from the fans showed me that I’m doing it the right way, that I’m telling the players’ stories the right way.”
Griffin also said that his former co-hosts — Scott Van Pelt, Ryan Clark and Marcus Spears they all stayed on board after his departure – expressing their gratitude as he left the door.
“My teammates and their reactions let me know that I was a good teammate for them,” Griffin boasted. “And that’s all you can go with.
During his tenure at ESPN, Griffin was also a color commentator for television coverage of college football.
“You know you don’t get these opportunities?” Griffin said. “You have to earn these opportunities. I am grateful to ESPN for giving me the opportunity to showcase my play calling skills in the booth as well as in the studio on Monday night countdown. It’s something I never take for granted.”
Looking ahead, Griffin will be a part Netflix’s inaugural NFL coverage on Christmas Day. On Monday, December 9, he was announced as a member of the streamer’s massive broadcast team, which also includes names like Drew Brees, JJ Watt and Kay Adams — who will prepare fans for the Chiefs-Steelers and Ravens-Texans holiday doubleheader.
But before he takes his talents to Netflix, Griffin has teamed up with USAA to help honor local military and veteran families before Saturday’s Army-Navy game at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland, home of the Washington Commanders, for whom Griffin previously played.
Griffin helped mentor and train nearly 100 military children and caregivers from the Elizabeth Dole Foundation at the first-ever Family Soccer Camp at the Prince George Sports Complex on Wednesday, December 11.
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On Friday, Dec. 13, Griffin will help donate two retrofitted vehicles to local deserving military families in need of reliable transportation — one Army family and one Navy family — at a ceremony where the cars will be presented to the families.
For Griffin — whose parents both served as sergeants in the U.S. Army — the collaboration was a no-brainer.
“That’s a special bond that military brats and families have because they understand the sacrifice,” Griffin explained. “To be able to work with USAA against the backdrop of Northwest Stadium, where I made so many soccer memories in the DC area, giving back to the kids means the world to me.”
Griffin added, “To make an impact on these people in their lives in this area that I think will last forever. It’s one thing to say, ‘I’m doing all this, I’m doing all that,’ but it’s another thing to actually go out and do it.”
