{"id":338344,"date":"2025-12-09T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338344\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:07:07","slug":"espn-crew-has-hilarious-reaction-to-insane-philip-rivers-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338344\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN crew has hilarious reaction to insane Philip Rivers news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After putting together a remarkable 8-2 start to the season, the Indianapolis Colts are now 8-5 and in brutal shape at the quarterback position. Daniel Jones suffered a torn Achilles in Sunday\u2019s 36-19 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars and was replaced by Riley Leonard, whose status is now in question due to a knee injury. Anthony Richardson has been out since suffering an orbital fracture in October.<\/p>\n<p>Things are so desperate for the Indianapolis Colts at the most important position in sports that they\u2019re looking into bringing in a 44-year-old grandfather who last played football in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1998180569935413461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">were the first to report<\/a> that the Colts will bring in Philip Rivers on Tuesday for a workout and will consider signing him to their practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Eagles-Chargers Monday Night Football game, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter delivered breaking news about the Colts\u2019 interest in Rivers on live television. ESPN\u2019s Marcus Spears and Troy Aikman had hilarious reactions to Schefter\u2019s report on the Monday Night Countdown set in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Adam Schefter informs the \u201cMonday Night Countdown\u201d crew about reports that 44-year-old Philip Rivers, a literal grandfather, will be working out for the Indianapolis Colts on Tuesday \ud83e\udd2f \ud83d\udc74 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ha56AUpZ54\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ha56AUpZ54<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1998184584316330301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spears\u2019 face said it all as Schefter spoke about Rivers and the Colts.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0oJoVTV46w\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/0oJoVTV46w<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HnPRDQ4FE9\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HnPRDQ4FE9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1998186767376134461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monday Night Countdown host Scott Van Pelt responded to the report by saying to Aikman, \u201cYou\u2019re in incredible shape. How\u2019s the wing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI can\u2019t imagine being out of the game five years and coming back at 44-years-old. I can\u2019t imagine that happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Troy Aikman on Philip Rivers\u2019 possible NFL return <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ipad4pQAes\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ipad4pQAes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1998186005900190048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I\u2019ve only been out of the game for 25 years,\u201d Aikman, the ESPN Monday Night Football color commentator, quipped. \u201cI don\u2019t take a pay cut. I\u2019ll come in at full salary. I\u2019ll give \u2019em a couple downs. I\u2019ll be a third-down specialist. You see these pass-rush specialists. I\u2019ll come in on third downs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a year for the Colts that your trajectory is incredible,\u201d Van Pelt said. \u201cNow, here they are, you\u2019re talking to Philip Rivers. I mean, is that a viable thing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I love Philip Rivers as much as anybody,\u201d Aikman said. \u201cBut, I can\u2019t imagine being out of the game for five years and coming back at 44-years-old. I can\u2019t imagine that happening\u2026 I\u2019d love to see it. We have Indianapolis coming up (vs. the San Francisco 49ers on MNF on Dec. 22).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDesperate times take desperate measures,\u201d Aikman added. \u201cThey\u2019re leaving no stone unturned. They\u2019re going to do everything they can. So, I understand kicking the tires. I\u2019m sure they put him through a workout to see where he is. And Philip\u2019s one of the best to have ever done it. But that\u2019s a tough task.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rivers was an eight-time Pro Bowl selection with the Chargers and spent his last NFL season with the Colts, leading Indianapolis to an 11-5 record in his age-39 season before retiring in January 2021. He threw 24 touchdown passes, 11 interceptions, and put together a 97.0 passer rating that season. The father of 10 has been the head football coach at St. Michael Catholic High School (Fairhope, AL) since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>While Rivers was still playing quarterback at a high level in his most recent season and is a high-IQ football mind, the idea of him returning to play NFL quarterback at age 44 after a five-year absence from the game is hard to imagine, as Aikman explained.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After putting together a remarkable 8-2 start to the season, the Indianapolis Colts are now 8-5 and in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4506,4,450,451,3686,4143,59798,170332,50687,3,23712,19441,139211,452,453,82871],"class_list":["post-338344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-adam-schefter","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-jason-kelce","tag-marcus-spears","tag-monday-night-countdown","tag-monday-night-football","tag-news","tag-philip-rivers","tag-ryan-clark","tag-scott-van-pelt","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-troy-aikman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}