![]() ![]() And then, as I was graduating high school and I went to college, I discovered Colin Cowherd. I would change my voice to try to do it.Īll my jobs in high school involved door-to-door sales, so I listened to Jim Rome’s show all the way through. But I would listen almost every night to Ron Barr on “Sports Overnight America” and try my best to get in on that show. At the time, the big local talk radio guy was a guy named Kevin Kietzman, and even as a child, I knew he was terrible. But other than that, and this is embarrassing, it was talk radio guys, and it wasn’t really local talk radio guys. Who were your guys in the media as a kid? Who were your inspirations in terms of, “These are the guys who I want to be.”Īs a little kid, it was the Chiefs’ postgame guys. "Joe Montana was the quarterback the last time the Chiefs won a home playoff game." reviews the Chiefs' long history of playoff heartbreak /5wQ7EO8lrw That is something that I still, to this day, can’t stand when a coach screws something up for his guys. I think it’s the fact that I was a witness to so many excellent teams being so mismanaged in critical spots. And I think it might be Marty Schottenheimer PTSD. People make fun of me because I’m so critical of game management and coaching errors on television. What did those Chiefs teams of the ’90s mean to you?Ĭonsistent devastation. And that’s absolutely what inspired me wanting to do talk radio. Starting at 9 years old, I used to call Bill Grigsby’s postgame show after every single Chiefs game, and I was “Nick the Kid.” That’s what they called me. There are tapes of it somewhere, this is verifiable. That was supposed to be my missed extra-point football. And the kid who went with my sister caught a missed extra point. ![]() When I was, like, 7 years old, we had seats that were right behind the uprights, and it was my turn to go to a game, and I gave my seat up because of a friend’s birthday party. I went to almost every home game for years and years and years with my dad. You grew up in Kansas City in the mid-’90s, so I’m just curious: Did that childhood experience shape why you wanted to become a sports pundit? The conversation has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. ![]() So earlier this week, I called up Wright to talk about his Chiefs fandom, crafting takes for television, the previously impossible thought that the Chiefs could become a dynasty, and this one time that a Jason Whitlock job resignation led to him becoming good friends with Bomani Jones. ![]()
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