Brett Favre and Ken Griffey Jr. will be guests on ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday when the show travels to Tallahassee for a matchup between No. 2 Florida State and No. 5 Notre Dame, according to Noles247.com.
Brett Favre, Ken Griffey Jr. reportedly Florida State’s ‘GameDay’ guests
ESPN might be paying homage to the 1993 game between FSU and Notre Dame by welcoming two of the biggest sports stars of the era.
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Neither Favre nor Griffey has spent much time at either school, as Favre played at Southern Mississippi (where he helped beat FSU in 1989) before spending 20 seasons in the NFL and Griffey went directly to MLB after high school. The tie-in, however, could be the pair’s relevance in the early 1990’s, as FSU and Notre Dame played in 1993 in one of the biggest college football matchups ever.
Favre does have one awkward personal connection with Florida State: he was accused of harassing Jets employee Jenn Sterger in 2008, after Sterger rose to fame as an FSU student in 2005.
That 1993 game featured a pairing of 9-0 No. 1 FSU against 9-0 No. 2 Notre Dame, with the Fighting Irish winning, 31-24, after a throw to the end zone from Charlie Ward was batted away in the final seconds.
At the time, Favre was in the midst of a second consecutive Pro Bowl season for the Green Bay Packers, and Griffey had just finished a season in which he was awarded Gold Glove, Silver Slugger and All-Star honors with the Seattle Mariners.
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