Peter Schrager gave an emotional farewell to his Good Morning Football colleagues when he announced Monday was his last day at NFL Network.
In the days before Monday’s episode of the popular morning talk show, there was a great deal of speculation online regarding Schrager’s future with the network. On Sunday night, host Kyle Brandt posted a tweet confirming the rumors that Schrager would soon be moving on.
On the show, Schrager was given the floor for about six minutes to announce the news himself and thank his colleagues for the last decade of his career.
“I’ve been with the show for nine years,” Schrager said, “and if you go back to all the meetings I had with Michael Davies and Tim Brown in this very building, it has been a full decade of my life living, breathing, being Good Morning Football — turning a television show concept into a brand, into a cult classic, into a lifestyle. In that time, I have had two beautiful children, we’ve won multiple awards — yes, viewers, we were once a critic’s darling — and I’ve got to cover multiple Super Bowls, and combines, and drafts, and summers where we debated Jadeveon Clowney’s next whereabouts.
“And that Jadeveon Clowney thing — which all three of you guys here and [Jamie Erdahl] back in LA can appreciate — was sort of the beauty of our show. When everyone else went away for the summer, or dove into the NBA Finals or the Olympics or the Home Run Derby, we were tasked with a three-hour show filling it about NFL football. We would end up ranking the best third wide receivers in the AFC East — or we would just quiz each other on 1980s tight ends — and we got away with it and we loved it; and somehow, some way, the viewers did, too.”
Although he did not reveal which network he’ll call home next, earlier reports indicated that Schrager could soon end up at ESPN.
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