California Catholic: San Diego’s most understated sports/radio heavy hitter would have to be Charger’s QB Philip Rivers, who reportedly committed $1 million of his money toward buying KCEO AM-1000 in 2012. Rivers and his wife Tiffany spearheaded the local drive to raise $3.75 million so that Sacramento-based Immaculate Heart Radio could buy KCEO and turn it into a 24/7 mouthpiece for the Roman Catholic way of thinking.
“St. Sebastian is the patron of athletes, so I wear a medal of him, along with a miraculous medal and a crucifix,” Rivers told the National Catholic Register in 2012. “In a 2008 playoff game I tore my ACL…. My mom asked me on the phone, ‘Do you know that St. Sebastian’s feast day [Jan. 20] is the day of the next playoff game?’ Amazingly, maybe even miraculously, I was able to play that game.” More here.
