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Continue to ChatI got fired - November 8, 1979. And all of a sudden, I got a call, two weeks later, about doing a game on ESPN. And I truly said - Scotty Connal, the head of ESPN production at the time, was the guy that called me - I said, 'Man, ESPN sounds like a disease. What is ESPN? I know nothing about it, never heard of it.' - Dick Vitale from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/i-got-fired-november-8-1979-and-all-of-a-sudden-i-got-a-call-two-weeks-later-about-doing-a-game-on-espn-and-i