CRIS Collinsworth is one-half of the NFL’s Sunday Night Football broadcasting team.
Paired with Al Michaels, the sportscaster will be the voice of Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, airing only on NBC.
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Who are Cris Collinsworth's children?
Cris Collinsworth is married to Holly Bankemper, whom he met while she was a cheerleader for the University of Kentucky.
The pair were married in 1989 and welcomed their first child, Katie, the next year.
Katie works for GolfNow and has two children.
The next Collinsworth and first-born son, Austin, was a team captain on the football team at the University of Notre Dame.
Ashley Collinsworth, Cris and Holly’s second daughter, attended Harvard University where she ran track.
The youngest and best-known Collinsworth child, Jac, joined his father on the NBC Sports team in March 2020.
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Jac, 27, will make his Super Bowl broadcast debut during the Super Bowl LVI Pregame Show.
Jac interviewed Snoop Dogg during a pregame broadcast of one of Tom Brady’s final games.
The younger Collinsworth will make a trip to Beijing for NBC’s coverage of the 2022 Olympics.
Who is Cris Collinsworth?
Collinsworth played wide receiver on a competitive Cincinnati Bengals team that made the Super Bowl twice during his eight-year career.
After his retirement in 1988, Collinsworth made the transition to the broadcast booth.
He filled the color-commentator vacancy left by all-time NFL great John Madden in 2009.
Collinsworth is the majority owner of Pro Football Focus, a statistics aggregator that uses deep-cutting numbers to determine player performance and value.
Collinsworth is known on social media for subtly sliding into the frame after co-host Al Michaels tees up the broadcast just before kickoff.
The sportscaster and entrepreneur will call his fifth Super Bowl from the booth when his former team takes on the Los Angeles Rams at Sofi Stadium in a battle for the Lombardi Trophy.
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What teams did Cris Collinsworth play for?
Collinsworth played his entire career with the Cincinnati Bengals.
During the 1985 season, Collinsworth was courted to abandon the NFL for the now-revived United States Football League but remained with the Bengals.
He played his college ball at the University of Florida, where he was coached by Heisman trophy winner Steve Spurrier.
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Collinsworth completed a law degree at the University of Cincinnati after his time in the NFL.
He and his wife reside in Kentucky.
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