You beat cancer by how you lived, why you lived
And in the
manner in which you lived.
So live. Live. Fight like hell.
- Stuart Scott
Stuart Scott was the greatest man living that
I've never met.
When I was looking for majors to take up in
college, I honestly didn't know what I wanted to do. I was looking
through websites, flipping through books, nothing. Then I got tired
of it and I sat back and I started watching TV, it was a Sunday and
I wanted to check out the day's highlights for the baseball games,
so I flipped to ESPN, like any man did back in the day. Then I came
across Stuart sitting there, and then in the midst of the
highlights, he just starts joking with his broadcast partner, he
looked so calm rand relaxed, he looked happy. So at that very
moment, I said to myself, that's what I want to do, that's what I
want to be when I grew up.
Upon further studying of exactly what it meant to
be a sports broadcaster, I realized that Stuart was light years
beyond anyone else in terms of how he naturally came off to the
audience. His signature catch phrases "boo-yah?" & "as cool as the
other side of the pillow", always made the viewer chuckle because he
was actually engaged with the product. What was even more awesome
about him was the fact that he was so natural, you never felt like
he was reading off a teleprompter or a script, it all just flowed.
When you heard his peers talk about him, you could just see their
faces light up when describing who he was and what he meant to them.
That is a sign of a blessed and humble human being.
But regardless of what happened in the past
couple of years with the cancer progressively getting worse, he was
always positive about it, always. He always showed strength, class
and encouragement when it came to his story. Watching his ESPY
speech again and him really putting over the Jimmy V Foundation
because it actually helped him, was awesome. He was living proof
that the foundation worked and will continue to work.
The main message that I got from was to never
give up, to keep fighting. That you cannot do it by yourself, that
you need people in your life that will fight for you, that will let
you be weak when you can't go on so you can recover and continue
fighting. That the indescribable love for his family, his daughters
in particular, was the realest thing a man could accomplish on this
earth. That for me makes me idolize him as a person because he
always encouraged you to be yourself and have fun with life, and
when things got tough, to not tuck your tail and run.
From Winston Salem, NC, to Florence, SC, to
Raleigh, NC, to Orlando, FL and finally to ESPN, Stuart Scott worked
as hard as anyone else, and made himself into a name synonymous with
the very network he helped build. Like he said, he didn't lose this
battle, he won it. I for one am glad that he doesn't have to go
through all of that anymore and he can finally rest. I'm going to
leave you guys with the last public appearance that he made, which
was at the 2014 ESPY's.
Do you guys have any memories or thoughts about
Stuart Scott, what does it mean to not see him on your TV screen
anymore. Leave a comment below letting me know how you feel.
Until next time guys.
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