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What is the actual deal with Kirk's Dog?
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:27 pm
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:27 pm
In all seriousness, does anyone know what the deal is? Has Kirk ever actually disclosed it?
We're only a couple days into the season, but we've already had to see the dog on Gameday, on the LSU/Clemson broadcast and now on the UNC/TCU broadcast. I love dogs, but do we really need to see Kirk's dog every single broadcast?
I bring this up, as Kirk has been on ESPN for awhile. But I feel like it was either just before Covid or during the Covid period when Kirk had his first dog who passed away. That I understood. But now for the last couple of years Kirk has this second dog and we see him like every broadcast now.
Is it some sort of medical condition? Anxiety? I feel like it's gone overboard and just become weird.
Does Kirk just have so much influence at ESPN that one day he just said "I'm going to start bringing my dog and you aren't going to say a thing, so deal with it" type situation?
We're only a couple days into the season, but we've already had to see the dog on Gameday, on the LSU/Clemson broadcast and now on the UNC/TCU broadcast. I love dogs, but do we really need to see Kirk's dog every single broadcast?
I bring this up, as Kirk has been on ESPN for awhile. But I feel like it was either just before Covid or during the Covid period when Kirk had his first dog who passed away. That I understood. But now for the last couple of years Kirk has this second dog and we see him like every broadcast now.
Is it some sort of medical condition? Anxiety? I feel like it's gone overboard and just become weird.
Does Kirk just have so much influence at ESPN that one day he just said "I'm going to start bringing my dog and you aren't going to say a thing, so deal with it" type situation?
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 10:30 pm
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Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:30 pm to TigerSharkMan
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I feel like it's gone overboard and just become weird.
+1 he's espn royalty so I'm sure they don't care, but I do wonder if it's anxiety or something else he deals with.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:30 pm to TigerSharkMan
It’s pretty ridiculous frankly. I’m sure because of his stature no one pushes back but sorry dogs do not belong everywhere especially at work
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:31 pm to TigerSharkMan
It’s a dog. A well trained one. Who cares. It ain’t hurting anything.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:33 pm to The Eric
That pup was the best 00:00:45 of tonight’s entire broadcast. Game included.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:34 pm to The Eric
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It’s a dog. A well trained one. Who cares. It ain’t hurting anything.
With all due respect that's not true and I'm tired of that mentality. I'll admit myself, I love dogs but I'm highly allergic to them. The wrong dog could cause my asthma to absolutely go haywire. That dog could absolutely hurt me and others who have allergies to dogs.
So that is absolutely not true. How does Kirk not know his dog might not cause an allergic reaction to someone in the hallway or someone on the production crew? It's why I hate that dogs now are just everywhere, including restaurants and airplanes. Putting the dogs above other humans.
I hate how people forget or just flat out ignore that a lot of us are allergic to dogs. And just from a professionalism aspect, unless it's a service dog, it has no businesses at the workplace.
Again though, I'm mostly just curious. And I'm really surprised Kirk himself has never addressed it.
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 10:36 pm
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:35 pm to TigerSharkMan
When his dog started turning around on him, I thought of this SNL sketch. Weird stuff to me. It's a dog. Get a grip, Kirk.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:35 pm to RLDSC FAN
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+1 he's espn royalty so I'm sure they don't care, but I do wonder if it's anxiety or something else he deals with.
People like the dogs. The students love it and non football fans tune in to see them.
Which makes ESPN happy.
The official cover is it's an emotional support dog but the real reason is the dogs are popular.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:38 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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The official cover is it's an emotional support dog but the real reason is the dogs are popular.
That is what I expected. That basically it provides no official service function and Kirk just wants to bring his dog everywhere. So he says "emotional support" so that it passes any legal issues.
The "non-football fans" thing would be funny. I seriously doubt any non-football fans are tuning in to see a dog. There are plenty of dogs everywhere.
I don't have a problem with the dog, I just don't think the dog needs to make an appearance every single telecast.
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:38 pm to TigerSharkMan
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But I feel like it was either just before Covid or during the Covid period when Kirk had his first dog who passed away.
Ben died last November because Kirk was a mess during Gameday at LSU.
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:40 pm to TigerSharkMan
I thought it was pretty funny… 
It was a blowout at that point, so who cares?
Now, if they did it with TCU driving to try to win the game…that’s another story.
It was a blowout at that point, so who cares?
Now, if they did it with TCU driving to try to win the game…that’s another story.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:46 pm to TigerSharkMan
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The "non-football fans" thing would be funny. I seriously doubt any non-football fans are tuning in to see a dog. There are plenty of dogs everywhere.
When Ben died some of the fan comments said they watched for him.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:47 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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When Ben died some of the fan comments said they watched for him.
Every week or just that show?
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:52 pm to TigerSharkMan
Herbstreit’s dog in CFB >>>> Taylor Swift in NFL
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:55 pm to TigerSharkMan
The dog is an emotional support dog to help him cope with cheating on his wife and almost ruining his marriage and Ohio State fans said mean things to him.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:58 pm to TigerSharkMan
I am sure they got super positive feedback showing the dog and since dogs are exalted as human equals in this day and age they embrace it. I am very much in the dogs are animals and belong in animal’s quarters camp; not in every restaurant, hardware store or wherever the owner can think of.
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 10:59 pm
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:59 pm to TigerSharkMan
Posted on 9/1/25 at 11:00 pm to H-Town Tiger
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Every week or just that show?
Yeah I can't imagine dog lovers would be taking hours out of each Saturday just to support his dog. I have to imagine that was one time only for that specific game.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 11:05 pm to TigerSharkMan
he got a handwritten note from his doctor on official stationary so it is legit
the dog plays, the dog stays
the dog taking a big shite on the turf at the gameday kicking challenge was epic, homeboy stepping in it while celebrating was GOLD
the dog plays, the dog stays
the dog taking a big shite on the turf at the gameday kicking challenge was epic, homeboy stepping in it while celebrating was GOLD
Posted on 9/1/25 at 11:06 pm to JumpingTheShark
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I am sure they got super positive feedback showing the dog and since dogs are exalted as human equals in this day and age they embrace it. I am very much in the dogs are animals and belong in animal’s quarters camp; not in every restaurant, hardware store or wherever the owner can think of.
This is my opinion as well. It's gotten out of control. I love dogs, but any dog outside of a service dog has no place in a restaurant, retail store or airplane. I also think it's ridiculous most hotels allow them now as well. Allow them, that's fine, but it should only be specific rooms that are guaranteed to be deep cleaned after.
Like you said, we've exalted dogs to be as equal as humans now. I love dogs, but they are not equal to humans.
That's what I hate about Kirk and what he's doing with that dog. He's doing nothing but encouraging others to take their dogs everywhere they go. Screw the people who could be hurt by those dogs, in various ways.
If the dog is an actual service dog, I get it. If it's just for "emotional support", I disagree with it. I know it's not popular, but that's my opinion.
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 11:08 pm
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