{"id":407911,"date":"2022-09-29T19:48:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=407911"},"modified":"2022-09-29T19:55:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:55:30","slug":"revealed-nfl-sunday-night-footballs-color-commentator-cris-collinsworth-nearly-joined-the-nbc-in-a-different-capacity-in-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/revealed-nfl-sunday-night-footballs-color-commentator-cris-collinsworth-nearly-joined-the-nbc-in-a-different-capacity-in-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"REVEALED: NFL Sunday Night Football’s Color Commentator Cris Collinsworth Nearly Joined the NBC in a Different Capacity in 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than ten years, Cris Collinsworth has offered color commentary on Sunday Night Football. For eight NFL seasons, Collinsworth played wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n

At the University of Florida, where he played collegiate football, he was named an All-American. He has won 17 Sports Emmy Awards and presently works as a sportscaster for NBC, Showtime, and the NFL Network.<\/p>\n

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Collinsworth nearly worked in the booth earlier, according to NBC executive Dick Ebersol. Collinsworth was a candidate for the play-by-play position, according to Ebersol, who mentioned it in his book Saturday Night to Sunday Night, according to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk.<\/p>\n

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Cris Collinsworth nearly joined NBC in a different capacity in 2006<\/h2>\n

A new book by renowned TV producer Dick Ebersol chronicles his decades of expertise, including how he founded Saturday Night Live, mastered Olympic programming, and turned Sunday night into Football Night. There’s also a fascinating tidbit about the procedure that led to NBC recruiting Al Michaels and John Madden from ABC’s Monday Night Football in 2006.<\/p>\n

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Dick Ebersol's new book includes this nugget — before securing Al Michaels for Sunday Night Football, the plan was to make Cris Collinsworth into a play-by-play announcer, partnering him with John Madden. https:\/\/t.co\/SwKjzWZWQf<\/a><\/p>\n

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) September 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n