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Super Bowl -Master’s Head coach Tony Dungy reflected on Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Service Tuesday.
Thousands of grieving flowed to the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, over the weekend in honor of the 31-year-old conservative influencer who was murdered at an event at Utah Valley University earlier this month.
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Tony Dungy at NBC Sports put before the game between Los Angeles Rams and Buffalo Bills at Sofi Stadium on September 8, 2022. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)
Erika Kirk, Charlie’s wife, was among those who held heart -heating speeches. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk were also among them to speak to the service.
“I think people were energetic and I was very much appreciated by it,” Dungy said at Outkick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich.” “Take the whole policy out of it. Just say, ‘We will honor this man’s life. We will talk about what Christ would say and what he wants to see and I thought it was done.
“You’ll never take out politics completely. But I thought the core was exactly what it was going to be.”
Dungy did not attend the event. At least one sports figure from the sports world was there – Chicago Cubs Rookie Matt Shaw.
Participants respond under a memorial to Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Sunday 21 September 2025, at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Mets -ads criticize Cubs -player Matt Shaw for having left the team to join Charlie Kirk’s funeral
Shaw was a friend of Charlie Kirk and had snapped a photo with him with teammate Michael Busch at Wrigley Field in the weeks before his death.
Shaw explained why he left the team to attend the service on Tuesday.
“My connection with Charlie was through our [Christian] Believe, “Shaw said before the kids opened a new series of New York Mets via Chicago Sun-Times.” And it’s something that drives me every day, the reason I am able to do what I do every day and that is something I am very grateful for.
“I know without my faith and without the many blessings I have received in my life that I would not be here, be able to talk to you, be able to help this team eventually go and win championships.
A tribute to Charlie Kirk appears at Jumbotron before a NASCAR CUP Series Auto Race, Saturday, September 13, 2025, in Bristol, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
“It’s something I really feel, really blessed, so regardless of setback it comes ok. I feel strong over my faith and that what was meant to have happened.”
