A bear was apparently spotted on ESPN's Bristol campus
During ESPN Radio's Joe & Q program with Joe Fortenbaugh and Q Myers, Fortenbaugh talked about how a "yellow emergency light" flashing at the network campus eventually sparked the revelation that none other than a bear was present on the facilities.
'There's a bear on the campus here of ESPN,' Fortenbaugh said on the program. 'It is the bear alert. So, everyone on campus stay inside. There's a black bear on the campus at the current moment.'
Perhaps that bear was trying to find who to complain to about Around the Horn going off the air?
We don't know what happened with this bear exactly, but hopefully he just got some souvenirs, took a selfie with Tony Kornheiser and went back to the forest.
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