Show-goers watch ESPN reports on the boxing match between Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines and Floyd Mayweather Jr. of the U.S. at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 7, 2010.
Show-goers watch ESPN reports on the boxing match between Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines and Floyd Mayweather Jr. of the U.S. at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 7, 2010. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

NFL Network host Rich Eisen gave an emotional speech about the late ESPN anchor Stuart Scott, and its video published on YouTube has gone viral. Titled “Rich Eisen Remember's ESPN's Stuart Scott,” the video has reached over 100,000 views since it was published on Jan. 4, Sunday.

As ESPN’s sportscaster and anchor on the daily sports news TV program “SportsCenter,” Scott regularly covered the NFL and the NBA. After learning that he had appendix cancer in 2007, he went into remission and diagnosed with cancer again in 2011 and 2013. Before he died on Jan. 4 at the age of 49, he was honored with the Jimmy V Award in 2014 for his fight against cancer.

Eisen is one of those who shared the anchor’s desk at ESPN with Scott. The two were long-time co-anchors on ‘SportsCenter” before Eisen left ESPN and moved to NFL Network.

In his emotional eulogy for his friend Scott, Eisen choked back tears saying, “Pray for Stuart and his family. (Pray for) everybody who he loved, and that includes you, the sports fans even those who hated on him.”

“He thrived on it. That’s ‘cause he is who he is and was, I can’t believe it’s past tense, who he was,” Eisen says in “Rich Eisen Remember’s ESPN’s Stuart Scott.” Watch the viral video here:

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