Anthony Cris Collinsworth is an American sports broadcaster and former professional American football player. Collinsworth was a wide receiver in the National Football League for eight seasons, all with the Cincinnati Bengals.
Cris Collinsworth: Retirement| Retire| Son| Age| Retiring
Retirement:
Is Sunday’s Super Bowl the final time we’ll see Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth in a broadcast booth together?
It sure sounds like it from Michaels’ pregame introduction. The veteran play-by-play man introduced his longtime broadcast partner for “one final time” to start NBC’s coverage of the Super Bowl on Sunday, adding fuel to the speculation that he’ll leave the network this offseason.
Retire:
Michaels’ contract with NBC is expiring after the Super Bowl. He’s reportedly drawn interest from Amazon for its upcoming streaming coverage and ESPN for a potential return to the “Monday Night Football” booth. At 77 years old, retirement would also be a reasonable option for Michaels. But he told reporters last week “I’m not ready for any rocking chair or golf.”
Michaels has been calling games nationally since joining ABC in 1977. He joined John Madden in NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” booth in 2006 and has called games alongside Collinsworth since the former Bengals receiver replaced a retired Madden in the analyst chair in 2009.
Son:
Michaels’ intro gave a nod to the internet-famous Collinsworth “slide” that’s become the analyst’s weekly trademark. Did it also signal an end to his partnership with Collinsworth? Or just an end to their 2021 season together?
Jac Collinsworth will make his Super Bowl broadcast debut when he serves as a co-host for NBC’s Super Bowl LVI Pregame Show on February 13, 2022. Collinsworth joined NBC Sports as a host and reporter in March 2020.
Age:
Upon completion of an eight-year NFL career as a wide receiver with the Cincinnati Bengals (1981-88), Collinsworth moved smoothly into broadcasting as a reporter for HBO’s Inside the NFL in 1989. The following season he graduated to the show’s studio cast.
Retiring:
Cris Collinsworth played in the first two Bengals’ Super Bowls and, now in their third, he will be in the booth, next to Al Michaels, on NBC’s broadcast Sunday. “I’m kind of filling out the trifecta here for them,” Collinsworth said during a phone interview.
Collinsworth, 63, still lives half the year in Cincinnati so he probably wants to avoid what happened his last Super Bowl when the city of Philadelphia was so displeased as he analyzed the Eagles upset of the Patriots that a petition was started.
