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19 Facts About Ron Pitts

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Ronald Dwayne Pitts was born on October 14,1962 and is an American former professional football player and current sportscaster.

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Ron Pitts played cornerback in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills and Green Bay Packers, and played college football at UCLA.

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Ron Pitts played college football back in southern California at UCLA under head coach Terry Donahue.

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Ron Pitts was selected in the seventh round of the 1985 NFL draft and had a brief playing career in which he played for the Buffalo Bills and the Green Bay Packers.

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From 1986 to 1990, Ron Pitts played 66 games at defensive back, starting six times.

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One of Ron Pitts's interceptions came off of San Francisco 49ers hall of famer Jerry Rice.

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Ron Pitts served as an analyst alongside Kenny Albert, Thom Brennaman and Ray Bentley.

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Ron Pitts co-hosted Under the Helmet and former Fox Sports Net programs Total Access and Hardcore Football.

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In 2014, Ron Pitts joined CBS Sports Network as a play-by-play announcer doing a limited number of games.

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Ron Pitts appears as an alternate version of himself during the "Eggheads" episode of the American TV series Sliders.

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Ron Pitts is mentioned in the 1984 Alex Cox movie Repo Man, in a college football radio broadcast heard in the background as the robbers bungle their way out of a store and just before the main characters walk in.

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Ron Pitts played a TV Reporter in a speaking role in the 1996 film The Birdcage.

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Ron Pitts' voice was featured as an announcer in Microsoft's NFL Fever, a football video game for the original Xbox.

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In 2008, Ron Pitts was hired to host a new show on the Discovery Channel named Destroyed In Seconds.

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Ron Pitts's father, Elijah Pitts, was a running back for the Packers and was part of all five NFL championship teams under Lombardi, including the first two Super Bowls.

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Ron Pitts is mentioned briefly as one of several players' children who visited the Packers' locker room in Jerry Kramer's diary of the 1967 season, Instant Replay.

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Ron Pitts has two sons named Lee and Shea, who both currently play college football.

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Ron Pitts's older son, Lee Pitts, is a defensive back at Azusa Pacific University, while his younger son, Shea Pitts, is a defensive back at his father's alma mater UCLA.

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Ron Pitts's sister, Kimberly R Pitts, DO, is a former power lifter and a physician in Southeast Texas.