On Sunday, sports broadcaster Cris Collinsworth will be calling his fifth Super Bowl.
Before he became an award-winning sports broadcaster, Collinsworth was an incredibly successful wide receiver with the Cincinnati Bengals.
“I’m like everyone else,” Collinsworth said.
“If it’s possible for you to’t have fun watching these guys play football.
They’ve got a certain energy.
What’s the big deal?
When I came in, I didn’t know.
We were the top seed.
We won the first two games at home and went to the Super Bowl.
I did it in my first year.
I get the same kind of feel with this bunch.
‘OK, we’ve won a couple of games and we’re at the Super Bowl at UCLA.
We beat them in school, too, so we’ll keep winning.’
I mean, that’s just how it seems.
They’re young and they’re just playing.”
The couple married in 1989.
Bankemper is still a practicing attorney in the Cincinnati area.
“I have a really strong wife,” Collinsworth toldCincinnati Magazineback in 2001.
Thecoupleshare four children and two grandchildren.
“But you really feel separated from that enough that you feel like you’re living in Mayberry.”
