If you ask ESPN reporter Lisa Salters whom she aspired to be growing up in King of Prussia in the 1980s, she won’t mention Frank Gifford, Al Michaels or any of the other famed broadcasters she stayed up late watching on Monday Night Football.
Her idol growing up was Lisa Thomas Laury, the beloved 6ABC reporter and Action News anchor who retired last year.
“She was royalty to me,” Salters, 51, said. “I saw a black woman on TV that I admired and I wanted to be like her.”
Salters, who was just inducted into the Montgomery County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, is in Philadelphia this weekend for the Eagles’ Week 7 Monday night match-up against Washington.