Congrats to Philip Rivers on an amazing career. I covered exactly one Chargers camp, spring 2017, and it was weird. As the team practiced out back, inside the building they were busy inside packing everything up for their move to Los Angeles. #thread
I hadn't interviewed Rivers since he was QB at NC State. After practice I asked a couple of questions during the podium Q&A and as soon as I started talking he gave me this look, trying to figure out if he knew me from somewhere...
When the Q&A was done he immediately called me over and joked, "Hey man, if you're looking for good BBQ around here, I've got bad news." Then he talked to me seemingly forever, about the move to LA, how his family was handling it, and also how much they still loved Raleigh...
As soon as I stopped recording, he grabbed my shoulder. That day there was a big round of layoffs at ESPN and he knew it. A man I really didn't know at all and hadn't interviewed in nearly a decade and a half looked me in the eye and said...
"I'll be praying for your family and friends today. You can count on that. Go Pack." Then he shook my hand, winked, and jogged away. And that's all you need to know about Philip Rivers.
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