Olin Kreutz spoke in depth for the first time about the incident with a colleague in May atsports-media startupCHGO that has now cost him two jobs.
Kreutz will not return to NBC Sports Chicago’s Bears postgame show after being fired by CHGO. The former Bears center grabbed the neck of Adam Hoge in response to a flippant remark. Kreutz reached out to Hoge privately but had yet to address the situation publicly.
“I told them obviously I was sorry about the way the situation escalated,” Kreutz told the Sun-Times. “There were some people in their building – obviously, I don’t blame them – that weren’t comfortable with me being there anymore.