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A Q&A with Jay Mohr on the 20th anniversary of Jerry Maguire

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You’ve done lots of sports stuff over the years, written an SI.com column, and hosted an ESPN show and a Fox radio show, what’s the connection?

It’s what I talk about anyway. I’m always talking sports and I realized there’s a social currency to that. If I was on a plane and ended up sitting next to some guy in a Bears shirt, I’d say, Hey, how about those Bears and we’d talk. I needed that social currency and realized there was some actual currency there. Not a lot of show biz people are willing to go on ESPN in the middle of the afternoon and get a .