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Football analyst Ryan Clark has started his own studio show, “The Pivot Sports with Ryan Clark," in wake of his very public firing from ESPN.
Despite his work with fellow former NFL players Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor, being dumped from the Worldwide Leader in Sports mid show leaves some scars, he told Jerry Brewer of The Athletic.
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Clark found out he was being let go during a commercial break for "NFL Live," and he didn't return to the set after he was informed of ESPN's decision.
Clark's departure — and the media attention around it — were certainly painful, but he indicated to Brewer that his reemergence on the media landscape comes, in part, from that experience.
“People always say, ‘Hey, go start your own thing.’ But without that layoff at ESPN, I don’t believe, to be honest with you, that I ever take this step,” Clark said. “I don’t think people realize the intimidating factor of that. There are a lot of unknowns, and so there was a level of fear. Being laid off unlocked all of that. I think the important thing is it paralleled my playing career.”
That said, don't expect Clark's new show to be directly connected to his work for ESPN.
“I think the tone, for me, is definitely a triumphant one,” Clark said. “And it’s not even in the sense that I’ve won, but more that I’m not lamenting what was lost.”
Brewer said across the NFL, players, coaches and executives have reached out to Clark following his firing, something he compared to hearing your eulogy before your death.
"People got to, in real time, declare their support for me," he said.
Now, carrying onto some of his nervousness, doubt and fear, he's trying to make a new product he's proud of in the field he loves.
“I don’t have a fear that this doesn’t work,” he said. “My fear is that I will hold on to pieces of that last experience — both good and bad — and that this works in an amazing way, and I’m still not content.”
There's only one way to find out.
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