1. Joel Klatt was born on February 4,1982 and is an American college football color commentator and analyst for Fox Sports.
36 Facts About Joel Klatt
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Joel Klatt was the first three-year starter at quarterback for Colorado since Kordell Stewart.
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Joel Klatt played in Minor League Baseball for two seasons.
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Joel Klatt was coached by his father, Gary, the head coach at Pomona High School in Arvada, Colorado.
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Joel Klatt played primarily at shortstop in baseball, earning first-team all-state in his senior year and helping his team finish as runner-ups in the state tournament.
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Joel Klatt set multiple records at his school in baseball: home runs, runs batted in, hits, and slugging percentage.
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Joel Klatt set three summer school records: home runs, RBIs, and slugging percentage.
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Joel Klatt was drafted in the 11th round of the 2000 Major League Baseball draft by the San Diego Padres as a third baseman.
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Joel Klatt played for the Arizona League Padres in Peoria, Arizona, that summer where he led the team with twelve doubles and batted.
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Joel Klatt then left the team and walked-on at the University of Colorado.
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Joel Klatt walked on at Colorado as a quarterback in 2002.
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Joel Klatt is one of four true freshman walk-ons to see action since 1986 for Colorado and was the Scout Team Offense Award Winner for the Colorado State game.
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Joel Klatt earned all-Big 12 honors and Colorado's John Mack Award.
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Joel Klatt made his first start in Colorado's first game of the season against Colorado State.
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Joel Klatt suffered a sprained shoulder injury during the Washington State game causing him to miss two starts against Florida State and Baylor.
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Joel Klatt was placed on scholarship status for this season, having played the previous two on walk-on status.
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Joel Klatt continued to set records at Colorado and led the team to the Big 12 Conference North title before losing the championship game to Oklahoma.
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Joel Klatt then went on to lead his team to victory in the Houston Bowl against UTEP.
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Joel Klatt again led Colorado to the Big 12 North Title during the 2005 season, a season in which he set several Colorado quarterback records.
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Joel Klatt suffered a severe concussion that left him hospitalized for weeks after the game.
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Joel Klatt became embittered by the nonchalance of the NCAA over the effects of his career-ending hit.
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Joel Klatt was not selected in the 2006 NFL draft but did attend the Detroit Lions' and New Orleans Saints' rookie mini-camps after the draft.
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The Lions claimed him off waivers less than a week later but Joel Klatt was released before the start of the regular season.
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Joel Klatt became a studio host for Fox Sports Southwest's Saturday college football coverage from 2007 to 2008.
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Joel Klatt's role expanded as he became a color analyst for Fox Sports Net in 2009.
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Joel Klatt hosted a series of sports radio shows in the Denver area from 2007 to 2012, including a popular program on the FM station 104.3 The Fan from 2011 to 2012.
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Joel Klatt joined Fox Sports 1 for its launch in August 2013.
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Joel Klatt spent his first two seasons with FS1 and Fox broadcast network as a full-time studio analyst for the network's college football coverage, host of Fox NFL Kickoff, a part-time game analyst, primarily working Thursday night contests on FS1 and called the 2014 Pac-12 Football Championship Game on Fox.
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Joel Klatt served as a digital host during the 2015 and 2016 US Open Championships and the on air interviewer during the 2019 US Open Championship.
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Joel Klatt serves as Curt Menefee's color analyst on telecasts of the XFL and USFL.
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Joel Klatt is a guest commentator weekly on The Next Round, a live and on-demand streaming broadcast based in Birmingham, Alabama, hosted by Jim Dunaway, Ryan Brown, and Lance Taylor.
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Joel Klatt is a weekly guest commentator on The Hardline, aired on KTCK's The Ticket 1310-AM and 96.7-FM stations, and based in Dallas.
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Joel Klatt has had a long-running weekly guest spot on KKFN [104.3-FM] The Fan in Denver, Colorado predominately commenting on the Denver Broncos and Colorado Buffaloes.
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Klatt hosts a weekly podcast, Breaking the Huddle with Joel Klatt, which began in 2017.
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Klatt hosts The Joel Klatt Show podcast on Fox Sports.
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Joel Klatt has appeared as an interview guest on The Hardline, The Petros and Money Show, and The Herd with Colin Cowherd.