Ex-WDIV Anchor Mort Crim, 89, Still Plays Tennis, Rides a Bike. But Twice At Airport He Was Offered Wheelchair.

Mort Crim on Sunday (Facebook photo)

Mort Crim, the WDIV anchor from 1978 to 1997, posts on Facebook that he still plays tennis three days a week and takes a five-mile bike ride on alternate days. He's 89.

"When I’m flying, I always consider the long walks in the terminals to be good exercise," he writes in a post on Sunday.

He then notes, perhaps with some amusement—or perhaps with a tinge of annoyance:

"I must LOOK a lot older than I feel because twice today at the Atlanta airport, I’ve been offered a wheelchair." He then adds with some humor: "The second guy who made the offer is expected to recover in a couple of days."

After leaving WDIV and being replaced by Devin Scillian, Crim started the marketing agency Mort Crim Communications, which he sold in 2008 to his business partner.

In 2013, actor Will Ferrell said Crim was the inspiration for the TV news anchor character Ron Burgundy in Anchorman.

In 2021, Crim authored the book Anchored: A Journalist's Search for Truth.

His Facebook page says he lives in Jacksonville, Fla.