Cris Collinsworth on New Partners, a Bengals Super Bowl, John Madden's Legacy, and the Fate of the Collinsworth Slide

The Press Box

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Bryan is joined by NBC’s Cris Collinsworth to discuss his three-decade career as an analyst and announcer. They reflect on Collinsworth's time playing for the Cincinnati Bengals, discuss what it was like calling the 2022 Super Bowl, touch on his relationship with the late John Madden, and later dive into the biggest differences between calling a game in the '90s versus today, and weigh in on who could be the next best announcer. Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Cris Collinsworth Associate Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Call me sentimental, but to me the most joyful moment in sports is the soccer goal.
0:06.6	And when that goal happens at the World Cup?
0:09.1	Well, it's pretty good.
0:10.3	I'm Brian Phillips with the 2022 Men's World Cup approaching.
0:15.0	I'm making a podcast called 22 Goals on the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:19.6	It's about 22 of the most fire-emogie goals in the history of the tournament.
0:25.2	We're going to have so much fun.
0:32.6	Hello media consumers.
0:34.1	Welcome to the press box.
0:35.6	Brian Curtis of the Ringer here along with producer Erica Servantes.
0:40.3	Today's guest is NBC's Chris Collinsworth.
0:44.6	To meet Chris Collinsworth offers an interesting look at the national conversation we tend to
0:49.9	have about TV announcers.
0:51.8	In 2009, Collinsworth replaced John Madden on Sunday Night Football.
0:56.5	And within a year, he had become the consensus best TV analyst in the NFL.
1:02.2	Collinsworth could use replays to reveal subtle things about the way the game has played.
1:06.9	He was interested not just in what the skill players were doing, but like Madden
1:11.0	before him in the lineman.
1:13.0	He was the first prominent football analyst to really get analytics.
1:16.8	He bought Pro Football Focus.
1:19.1	And then, starting around 2017, America had a brief but intense love affair with CBS's
1:26.8	Tony Romo.
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