Overview
- Murphy said he accepted an incoming FaceTime from a 732 area code on Wednesday morning and spent about 10 minutes talking with Bruce Springsteen.
- Springsteen’s office contacted the Brewers after watching the pennant-clinching game and hearing Murphy use the refrain from Springsteen’s “Last Man Standing.”
- Murphy, a decades-long Springsteen fan who has a forearm tattoo quoting “No retreat, no surrender,” described the call as authentic and said he was “blown away.”
- According to Murphy, Springsteen did not explicitly say he was rooting for the Brewers during the conversation.
- The exchange was reported Oct. 22–23 as a human-interest lead-up to the Brewers’ World Series opener against the Tampa Bay Rays and highlights the personal ties between fandom and sports figures.