Anthony Cris Collinsworth was born on January 27,1959 and is an American sports broadcaster and former professional football player.
33 Facts About Cris Collinsworth
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Cris Collinsworth played college football at the University of Florida, where he was recognized as an All-American.
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Cris Collinsworth is currently a television sportscaster for NBC, Showtime, and the NFL Network, and winner of 17 Sports Emmy Awards.
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Cris Collinsworth is the majority owner of Pro Football Focus.
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Cris Collinsworth's family, including Cris and his younger brother Greg, moved from Ohio to Melbourne, Florida, in 1963, when Cris was four years old.
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Cris Collinsworth was successful in multiple sports for the Astronaut War Eagles, and during his senior year in 1976, he won the Florida High School Athletic Association Class 3A 100-yard-dash state championship and was named a high-school All-American quarterback.
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Cris Collinsworth was moved to wide receiver, where his new position coach was former Gator quarterback Steve Spurrier in his first year as a coach.
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Cris Collinsworth was named a first-team All-Southeastern Conference selection in 1978,1979 and 1980, and was named both a first-team All-American and a first-team Academic All-America in 1980.
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Cris Collinsworth finished his collegiate career by being named the MVP of the 1980 Tangerine Bowl.
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Cris Collinsworth scored 14 touchdowns receiving, two rushing, one on a kickoff return, and threw two touchdown passes.
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Cris Collinsworth returned 30 kickoffs for 726 yards for an average of 24.2 yards per return.
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Cris Collinsworth graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1981 and was inducted into the University of Florida Student Hall of Fame the same year.
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Cris Collinsworth was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1991, and as part of a recognition of 100 years of Florida football in 2006, The Gainesville Sun recognized him as the No 12 all-time Gator player.
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Cris Collinsworth was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 1981 NFL Draft, and spent his entire eight-year NFL career with the Bengals.
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Cris Collinsworth surpassed 1,000 yards receiving four times and was named to the Pro Bowl in 1981,1982 and 1983.
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In Super Bowl XVI, Cris Collinsworth was the game's leading receiver with five receptions for 107 yards, but committed a costly second quarter fumble when he was hit by San Francisco defensive back Eric Wright.
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In 1985, Cris Collinsworth signed with the Tampa Bay Bandits of the United States Football League, but the contract was voided when he failed the physical due to a bad ankle.
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Cris Collinsworth returned to the Bengals and played for them through the end of the 1988 season, catching three passes for 40 yards in Super Bowl XXIII, the final game of his career.
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Cris Collinsworth finished his eight-season NFL career with 417 receptions for 6,698 yards and 36 touchdowns in 107 games.
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Cris Collinsworth then became a reporter for HBO's Inside the NFL in 1989.
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In 1998, Cris Collinsworth joined the NFL on Fox team after NBC lost their broadcast rights to CBS.
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Cris Collinsworth was the host of the television show Guinness World Records Primetime during his stay at Fox.
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In 2006, Cris Collinsworth could be seen on three networks during football season.
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Cris Collinsworth served as color commentator for NFL Network Thursday night games alongside play-by-play man Bryant Gumbel and Bob Papa.
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Cris Collinsworth continued his work on Inside the NFL when it debuted on its new home on Showtime.
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Cris Collinsworth is the color commentator on Madden NFL 09 and Madden NFL 10 with Tom Hammond, as well as in Madden NFL 11 and Madden NFL 12 with Gus Johnson.
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In 2009, Cris Collinsworth filled the color-commentator role vacated by John Madden on NBC's Sunday Night Football, with Al Michaels.
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Cris Collinsworth was the host of Inside the Vault on WGN America.
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Cris Collinsworth is on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service.
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Cris Collinsworth earned a juris doctor degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1991.
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Cris Collinsworth's son, Austin Collinsworth, is a former football player and team captain at the University of Notre Dame.
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On March 12,2011, Cris Collinsworth reportedly was among 83 people rescued from Jeff Ruby's Waterfront restaurant in Covington, Kentucky, when the floating restaurant tore loose from its moorings and began to drift on the Ohio River, only to be stopped by the Brent Spence Bridge that links Ohio to Kentucky.
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Cris Collinsworth has a steak named after him by the same restaurant.