Fox NFL Sunday’s Curt Menefee Has Always Carried Coe And Cedar Rapids With Him

Once upon a time, a teenager from Atlanta took a chance on Coe College and Cedar Rapids.

It isn’t a fairy tale, but the story of Fox Sports’ NFL studio host Curt Menefee is a good one all the same.

Menefee was a 17-year-old from Atlanta who wanted to work in television, so he came to a city he didn’t know to attend a college that didn’t offer an academic entryway into the career he wanted.

“It defies logic, it really does,” Menefee said.

But while he was here in the mid-1980s, he applied the principles that he will share in his commencement speech at Coe on Sunday morning.

“Success is different from person to person,” Menefee said, “but we all have tools. I’ll talk about the three things I think it takes. You have to work hard, you have to be passionate, and you have to enjoy life. If you do those three things, you’ll be successful.”