'America's Best Friend': Kirk Herbstreit Brings A Nation To Tears With Tribute To His Departed Ben

Posted • November 9, 2024: Amid all of our celebrations this week about Donald Trump's historic election win, there were plenty of stories of hardship and loss. One of those stories that hit social media hardest was when former Ohio State quarterback and current college football and NFL announcer Kirk Herbstreit lost his beloved dog Ben to cancer. Ben was not just Herbstreit's best friend, he was a social media star as he would often accompany Herbstreit to his announcing jobs, especially as a panelist on ESPN's college football pre-game show, College GameDay. That show is filmed on location at college campuses across the country and, over the years, everyone in attendance and watching on TV got to know Ben very well. On Thursday, Herbstreit announced that tragic news: https://x.com/KirkHerbstreit/status/1854589587051430022 -- If we've said it once, we've said it a thousand times: Eat a bag of d*cks, cancer.

Somehow, Herbstreit managed to perform his job later that night, doing color commentary for the Ravens-Bengals game on Thursday Night Football. The Twitter account MLFootball offered a loving tribute to Ben before the game: A touching tribute video to Ben Herbstreit, one of America’s favorite dogs, who sadly died after a battle with cancer. “He was my best friend,” - @KirkHerbstreit 🥹🥹 https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1854642364972687378/vid/avc1/576x722/AskILYBNxfketLUK.mp4 -- But it was this morning on College GameDay that Herbstreit brought everyone to tears. The show was on location in Baton Rouge for the Alabama-LSU game and ESPN showed this video narrated by Herbstreit, which he posted on Twitter: Kirk Herbstreit @KirkHerbstreit: “Thank you again for all the outpouring of love for our Ben. I can’t tell you how much it means to me and my family. He wasn’t just my best friend – he was America’s best friend ❤️” (…)

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