Feel Good Moments: “Top Ten” ESPN memories shared by . . .

Matthew Otis, Grasp Management Operator

I used to be simply going into my second yr right here at ESPN. It was Christmas Day morning, which for these of us away from households, could make for a really lengthy and lonely day. I used to be in one of many again working rooms, previous Grasp 11, airing my third soccer sport that day. Throughout halftime, a person walked into my management room. I didn’t acknowledge the individual, however I may sense him standing there ready for me to complete the switches I used to be making throughout the business break. After I turned, I noticed a gentleman with a pleasant collared lengthy sleeve shirt, straight reduce pressed blue denims and doubtless the biggest PDA/cellphone ever created on his hip. So I mentioned, “With a cellphone like that, you have to be somebody vital, howdy, I’m Matt!” Seems that this individual strolling in on a Christmas morning was then-ESPN President George Bodenheimer. He was taking day out of his Christmas Day and making the rounds to thank everybody who was engaged on the most important vacation of the yr and hoped the free meal on the cafe was good. It was this show of understanding and thanks from the highest-ranked individual in firm that makes me blissful to work at ESPN.