Ed Cunningham, who was the ESPN Radio analyst for the 2007 Fiesta Bowl and worked quite a few Boise State football games for ESPN TV broadcasts, has quit his job at ESPN over safety concerns with football.
Cunningham won a national championship at Washington as a player and played in the NFL for five seasons. He was a respected voice in the broadcast booth, where he joined ESPN/ABC in 2000.
“I take full ownership of my alignment with the sport,” Cunningham told The New York Times. “I can just no longer be in that cheerleader’s spot.