Trib reports on James “Mr Everything” Conner’s visit on the Ellen DeGeneres Show – in case you missed it please watch the video posted below…
Shortly after a video of the segment appeared on DeGeneres’ website and on TribLive.com, Conner began receiving interview requests through Erie videographer and family friend Mike Gallagher. Reporters called from Kansas City, Denver and Jacksonville, Gallagher said.
“I had one message from a guy who wants to pitch him to Campbell’s Soup,” Gallagher said. “I responded I need him to beat Penn State first.” The NCAA does not permit college athletes to do endorsements.
DeGeneres’ producers taped an interview with Conner in Pittsburgh several days before his appearance in which he said doctors told him the cure rate for his disease is 85 to 90 percent.
“That’s more than enough for me,” he told DeGeneres. “I’d be good if you said 2 percent. It’s on. Let’s go.”
Here is the video, have a handkerchief handy for the tears…
The Pitt News cover the show also.
“If you think you’re having a bad day, and then you see him at practice with one of those masks on, it’s amazing,” Galambos said.
DeGeneres and Conner discussed the limitations chemotherapy puts on his training, as well as his future plans for the upcoming football season.
“The only thing I can’t do is — I have a port in my chest — so I can’t really get tackled,” Connor said. “Good for you, you can’t get tackled. That’s a great thing,” DeGeneres responded, laughing.
