23 Facts About Tom Hammond

Thomas Taylor Hammond was born on May 10,1944 and is an American sportscaster.

Tom Hammond is primarily known for his work with NBC Sports from 1984 to the present.

Tom Hammond is one of the network's staple on-air presenters, along with Bob Costas and Dan Hicks.

Tom Hammond is best known for his coverage of Thoroughbred Racing on NBC, coverage of Notre Dame Football on NBC from 1992 to 2012 and his coverage of the NFL on NBC from 1985 to 2011.

Tom Hammond served as the play-by-play announcer for NBC's coverage of track and field at each Summer Olympics from 1992 to 2016.

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Tom Hammond announced the speed skating events during the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Tom Hammond began his career with WVLK Radio, where he was news and sports director.

Tom Hammond is recognized as a specialist and national expert on thoroughbred pedigrees.

Tom Hammond had known his color commentator on the Lincoln Financial broadcasts, Larry Conley, since junior high school.

Tom Hammond was the main host of the network's thoroughbred racing coverage until Mike Tirico took over in 2017.

Tom Hammond has been very much involved in NBC's Olympic Games coverage.

At the Summer Olympics, Hammond served as the chief commentator for track and field, a position for which he debuted at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where his broadcast partner that year was O J Simpson.

At the Winter Olympics, Tom Hammond is the main commentator for figure skating and ice dancing.

Tom Hammond is sort of unique in that, unlike most of his NBC Sports colleagues, he does not live in or around the New York City area, opting to stay in his hometown of Lexington, a decision he made during his early days at NBC.

Tom Hammond isn't alone in this choice; despite being a New York native himself, Costas lives in St Louis, Missouri.

Tom Hammond was considered the leading play-by-play candidate when NBC won the bidding for Sunday night NFL coverage beginning with the 2006 season, but ended up losing out to former ABC announcer Al Michaels after the latter signed with NBC.

Tom Hammond teamed with Cris Collinsworth to call the secondary Saturday Wild Card playoff game for NBC each year, including Chiefs-Colts in January 2007, Redskins-Seahawks in 2008, and Falcons-Cardinals in 2009, but teamed with Joe Gibbs and Joe Theismann for the Jets-Bengals Wild Card playoff game in January 2010, as Cris Collinsworth partnered with Al Michaels in the 2009 season due to the retirement of John Madden after the 2008 season.

Tom Hammond filled in for Bryant Gumbel as play-by-play announcer on the NFL Network's December 13,2007 game featuring the Denver Broncos and Houston Texans on Thursday Night Football, once more teaming with Collinsworth.

Tom Hammond called gymnastics, figure skating, the WNBA, the Orange Bowl and college basketball.

However, even with the short amount of time between the Derby and his operation, Tom Hammond managed to get healthy enough to make his dream of broadcasting his home state's most famous sporting event become a reality on May 5,2001.

Tom Hammond has been awarded horse race broadcasting's top honor, the Eclipse Award, in 1984 and 1996.

Tom Hammond was awarded an Emmy Award for coverage of the 1992 Breeder's Cup.

Tom Hammond won Emmys for sports broadcasting in 1988,1992, and 1996.