| Chris Visser has met or interviewed five Presidents of the United States as well as sports celebrities including Muhammad Ali, Arnold Palmer, Dan Marino, A.J. Foyt, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Richard Petty, Shaquille O'Neal, Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Henry Aaron, Larry Bird, Joe Montana, Dick Butkus, Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, Mario Andretti, Jimmy Connors, Rod Laver, Greg Norman, Dennis Conner, Walter Payton, Carl Lewis, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Chris Evert, Bobby Orr, Lance Armstrong, Mark Spitz, Wilt Chamberlain, Andre Agassi, Al Oerter, Lee Trevino, Ernie Els, Bill Cosby, Walter Cronkite, George Will, William Shatner, Bob Hope, Jim Brown, Yogi Berra, Burt Reynolds, Oprah Winfrey, Ruth Buzzi, Wilma Rudolph, Mia Hamm, Christie Brinkley, Patricia Ireland, Kathy Ireland, John McCain, Sonny Bono, William F Buckley, Tom Brokaw, Wolf Blitzer, Phil Collins, Toby Keith, Frankie Avalon, Sting & Hank Williams, Jr... Chris Visser has worked with John Elway and Alice Cooper, Troy Aikman and Brett Favre, Wayne Gretzky, Dan Reeves, Don Shula, Pete Rose, Hale Irwin, Dick Stockton, Bob & Mike Golic, Dan Patrick, Jim Rome and Meadowlark Lemon. Visser has produced and/or directed radio or television broadcasts from venues as varied as London, Tokyo, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Seattle, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, the US Virgin Islands and Honduras. He has helped deliver successful fundraising efforts for the Childrens Miracle Network, Make-a-Wish, the Special Olympics, Arizona Community Foundation, the Parkinsons Disease Foundation, Todd Helton, Irving Fryar, Evander Holyfield, Bill Walton and the Tucson, AZ Childrens Museum... Chris Visser spent over a dozen years helping establish the "all sports" radio stations in San Diego (XTRA), Miami (WQAM) and Phoenix (KGME) and has served as the Executive Producer for the network broadcasts of the Denver Broncos, Denver Nuggets, LA Kings, San Diego Chargers, Florida Marlins, Florida Panthers and Miami Heat... Chris Visser currently works with Fox Sports on their NFL telecasts and has a sister, Lesley Visser, who is with CBS Sports and HBO... Chris Visser's brother-in-law is Dick Stockton of Fox & Turner Sports who in the fall of 2001 was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA... Chris Visser was once described by Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated as "the Michael Jordan of sports producers..." |
