"Everybody that got laid off got told on Tuesday.Only one person got told on Monday on set.
Me.That’s the distinction," Clark told the hosts Tuesday.
"It was also purposeful.It was also meant, in my opinion, to humiliate.
In leaking it to OutKick, you now know if anybody is going to curry favor for you in this decision, it’s going to be them because it’s me."ESPN informed Clark of his firing during a commercial break of the July 22 edition of "NFL Live." He did not return to the program.Ryan Clark is being let go by ESPN after more than 11 years with the network, OutKick has learned.(Ric Tapia/Getty Images)THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE.
DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!He continued, "There’s so many reputable sports publications.Whether it’s you know Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, The Athletic.
If this is going to be as big a news as it turned out to be, why not give it to them? Because you knew who you were giving it to.You knew the small amount of people within that building that knew it.
Then the humiliation that you at least purposed it to come along with me being laid off.""I do feel like it was about that humiliation, and he wanted to save me from that.It was already going to be enough written.
It was already going to be enough laughs, enough jokes that I worked that day anyway.So I appreciated him."This is not the first time Clark has made that claim.
Nor is it the first time listeners of "The Breakfast Club" have heard it.The day after OutKick reported the news, one of the show’s hosts claimed a source told them ESPN executive Burke Magnus leaked the information to OutKick to spite Clark.It is possible the source was someone who spoke with Clark — or Clark himself.The version of events Clark and the show’s hosts are presenting, however, is not accurate.
I would know.I am one of three people who know how OutKick obtained the information and why ESPN informed Clark of his firing during a live p...