Anthony Cris Collinsworth (born January 27, 1959) is a former professional American soccer player who was a widespread recipient of the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons, all with the Cincinnati Bengals, during the 1980s. He plays college football for the University of Florida, and is recognized as All-American. She currently is a television sports broadcaster for NBC, Showtime, and NFL Network and winner of 15 Sports Emmy Awards. He is also the owner of Pro Football Focus, a sports statistics monitoring service.
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Collinsworth was born in Dayton, Ohio, son of Abraham Lincoln "Abe" Collinsworth (born on Abraham Lincoln's birthday) and his wife, Donetta Browning Collinsworth. Abe, known as "Lincoln" in high school, was one of the top scorers in the history of Kentucky high school basketball and played for the Kentucky Wildcats "Fiddling Five" which won the 1958 national championship. Both were educators; Donetta is a teacher, and Abe is a high school teacher and coach who later became principal and eventually became an assistant inspector.
The family, which also included Collinsworth's brother, moved to Titusville, Florida in 1963, when Cris was four years old. He grew up there and attended Astronaut High School, where his father was the principal. Cris Collinsworth was a middle-school All-American football quarterback and a 100-yard-dash high school SMA (Classroom) 100A-class Athletics Class for the Astronaut War Eagles in 1976.
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College career
Collinsworth's incredible height and speed attracted the attention of football coaches across the South. He received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Doug Dickey and trained Gaines Florida football team Charley Pell from 1977 to 1980. He was recruited as a quarterback and in his first game as Gator, Collinsworth threw a pass a 99-yard touchdown for Derrick Gaffney against Owls Rice, which remains bound to pass the longest touchdown in NCAA history.
He then switches to a wide receiver when the Gators transition from a run-oriented offense option to an offensive scheme that uses more passing. As a broad recipient, he was the first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection in 1978, 1979 and 1980, and the All-American first team, first team of All-America Academics and team captains in 1980. During his Florida career, 120 tickets for 1,937 yards and 14 touchdowns. He scored two hurried touchdowns, one on the kickoff return, and threw two goals through. He also returned 30 kickoffs for 726 yards with an average of 24.2 yards per return.
As a senior in 1980, Collinsworth was a member of the Gators team who recorded the biggest one-year change in the history of NCAA Division I football at the time, rising from 0-10-1 in 1979 to 8-4 in 1980, when Collinsworth completed his career college with the name MVP from 1980 Tangerine Bowl.
While still an undergraduate, Collinsworth was an active member of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity (Florida Alpha Omega Chapter), and was sworn in as the University of Florida Hall of Fame. He graduated from Florida with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1981, and was inducted into the University of Florida Athletics Hall of Fame as the "Great Gator" in 1991. As part of his article series on the first century 100 Gators of Florida football published in 2006, The Gainesville Sun recognize him as a Gator No. player. 12 of all time.
Professional career
Collinsworth was compiled by Cincinnati Bengals in the second round (voted overall 37) of the 1981 NFL Draft, and spent his entire NFL career eight years with Bengals. He surpassed the 1,000-meter receiving four times (in 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986) and was named for the Pro Bowl in 1981, 1982 and 1983. With six-foot, five-inch tall, Collinsworth often created incompatibilities against far more cornerbacks small. In addition to the high profits, Collinsworth is a deep threat because of its speed.
At Super Bowl XVI, Collinsworth caught five bait for 107 yards but made a big mistake when he was beaten by San Francisco defender Eric Wright.
In 1985, Collinsworth signed a contract with the Tampa Bay Bandits of the United States Football League (USFL), but the contract was canceled when he failed because of a bad ankle. He returned to Bengals and played for them until the end of the 1988 season, capturing three yards for 40 yards at Super Bowl XXIII, the last game of his career. He completed his eight-season NFL career with 417 receptions for 6,698 yards and 36 goals in 107 games.
Broadcasting career
After retiring as an NFL player, Collinsworth began his broadcasting career as a radio talk show host at the Cincinnati WLW station. Initially, he was a guest host for Bob Trumpy (also an alumnus of Bengals), but took over the show on a full-time basis when Trumpy received more television assignments. He later became a reporter for HBO's (now Showtime's) Inside the NFL in 1989.
In 1990, he became part of NBC's NFL network broadcast, as well as several college programs. He joined the NBC pregame event in 1996.
In 1998, Collinsworth joined the NFL on Fox team after NBC lost their broadcasting rights to CBS. After several years as a color commentator on the Fox NFL Sunday pregame show, Collinsworth was assigned to the main network game broadcasting crew (teamed up with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman) in 2002. She worked on Fox's Super Bowl XXXIX three years later. Collinsworth also hosted the Guinness World Records Primetime television show during his stay at Fox.
In 2006, Collinsworth can be seen on three networks during the football season. In addition to co-hosting Inside the NFL on HBO, he returned to NBC as studio analyst for the NFL coverage network Sunday night and made color comments on the NFL Network. He also served as a color commentator for the NFL Network on Thursday night of the game (and one Saturday night game) with play-by-play man Bryant Gumbel and Bob Papa.
In the NBC 2008 Summer Olympics broadcast in Beijing, Collinsworth appeared with Bob Costas as a commentator on various occasions. Collinsworth and Costas pair up again during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. He also continued his work at Inside the NFL when debuting at his new home on Showtime.
Collinsworth is also a color commentator on the Madden NFL 09 and Madden NFL 10 with Tom Hammond, as well as the Madden NFL 11 and Madden NFL 12 with Gus Johnson.
It was announced on April 16, 2009 that Collinsworth will fill the role left by John Madden on NBC's Sunday Night Football, and in 2017 is in the ninth season of high profile broadcast.
Collinsworth is host of Inside the Vault at WGN America.
Collinsworth is on the Jefferson Award Select Board for Public Service.
Awards
Collinsworth received the Emmy Sports Award in April 1998 as "Outstanding Studio Analyst" and the second in 1999. In 2001, he was sworn in to Academic All-America Hall of Fame. He was also recognized with his third and fourth Emmy Sports Awards in 2003. and 2004 as "Extraordinary Personality Sports/Studio Analyst." In May 2006, he added a fifth with an Emmy Award again in the "Extraordinary Personality Sports/Studio Analyst" category for his work on HBO. Collinsworth served as a correspondent for NBC Sports coverage at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Personal life
Collinsworth earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1991. He currently lives in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, with his wife, Holly (Bankemper) Collinsworth, a lawyer, and their four children. His son, Austin Collinsworth, is a former football player and team captain at the University of Notre Dame, from which he earned his MBA in Investment.
On March 12, 2011, it was reported that Collinsworth was among the 83 people rescued from Jeff Ruby's Waterfront restaurant in Covington, Kentucky, when the floating restaurant was detached from its moorings and began to drift in the Ohio River, only to be stopped by the Brent Spence Bridge linking Ohio to Kentucky. Collinsworth also has a steak named after it by the same restaurant.
Cris's father, Abe, died at the age of 76 on October 14, 2012. Cris's brother, Greg, died at the age of 44 years of cancer on October 29, 2004.
See also
- The All-American Football Team of 1980
- Florida Gators football, 1970-79
- Florida Gators football, 1980-89
- History of Bengals of Cincinnati
- List of Alpha Tau Omega brothers
- The list of Florida Gators All-Americans football
- List of Florida Gators football players in NFL
- The list of Cincinnati University people
- A list of University of Florida alumni
- List of University of Florida Hall of Fame members
References
External links
- Cris Collinsworth on Twitter
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