Robert Griffin III reflects on stunning ESPN firing, future sports media plans

Robert Griffin III isn’t closing the door on working for another network following his firing from ESPN. 

Griffin made the rounds on Monday, appearing on both “The Jim Rome Show” and “The Rich Eisen Show” and discussing his split with the World Wide Leader, while also looking to the future. 

The former NFL-quarterback-turned-media-personality will continue with his podcast, “Outta Pocket with RGIII,” and said the way things ended with ESPN wouldn’t dissuade him from working for another “legacy media” outlet. 

“If you don’t own anything, then you’re always going to be a slave to something else. I just want to make sure that we own what we’re doing, we have a good time doing it, and as far as legacy media goes, I’ve got no bad blood with legacy media,” Griffin told Rome, according to Awful Announcing. “But there could be teams at Fox, NBC, CBS, Amazon, Netflix or anywhere else that I would enjoy working with as well. I’m not gonna close the door on anything.”

Griffin was fired on Aug. 15 along with Sam Ponder in a surprise move by ESPN in what has been labeled a budgetary decision, but he told Rome that he wasn’t able to discuss why he was let go. 

He will still get his annual seven-figure salary from ESPN until the end of the two years he had left on the deal, or if another network buys out the contract. 

Griffin told Rich Eisen that the decision “surprised” him and that he had already been assigned a production team for his college football coverage duties. 

He expressed that he “loved the experience” at ESPN.

“I’ll miss the people there that I got a chance to work with and I wish them the best moving forward,” Griffin told Rome. “For me, and what the future holds, it’s just whatever God has in store for me. I’m just going to keep walking by faith and not by sight and continue to just cover the game the way I know how to cover it, with the excitement and the enthusiasm. That is just me being my true, authentic self. There is no act here. I’m just always gonna be that guy.”

Griffin had been at ESPN since 2021, but was pulled from “Monday Night Countdown” in May after ESPN added Jason Kelce to its talent roster.