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Cris Collinsworth is a former NFL <a href="/biography/cris-collinsworth">player</a> and is currently a famous Emmy Award winning sportscaster.

Football Career

The 6 foot 5 Chris was an outstanding football receiver with 417 receptions in 107 games played in the NFL, he was a very skilled player.

He had a famous 99 yard touchdown pass when he was playing for his college squad, the Florida Gators.

He spent 8 years in the NFL, all of them with the Cincinnati Bengals. He was a quick runner, at a 4.4 second 40 yard dash speed, he was a true threat to opponents. His running skill was inherited by his daughter Ashley who won the Kentucky High School title in the 100 meters race, and ran for Harvard later where she became a team captain. The family was full of speed and quick runners

Cris won the 100 yard dash in the 70s with his younger brother taking bets from spectators. He made a lot of money betting on him.

Sports and Scholar Family

Cris not only had the speed and touch on the football field, he also had the brains. With a 3.9+ GPA, he got a degree in Accounting from the University of Florida. Later in 1991 he earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Law.

His children were also successful scholars. His daughter received her degree in Psychology from Harvard. His son, Austin is currently the Vice President of Distribution for Pro Football Focus. Austin was also a football player and team captain for Notre Dame. At Notre Dame, his son earned an MBA in Investments. His son worked as a reporter for NBC. His daughter Katie was a Manager of Marketing and Education Projects at GolfNow.

Sportscasting

After retirement, Cris started sportscasting, first on the radio as a guest host, then he took on the show by himself. He then started working for HBO as a reporter in 1989. The next year was big for him as he became a part of NBC's family. 8 years later he joined FOX's team. 3 years later he worked on the Super Bowl.

By 2006, he was a <a href="/biography/cris-collinsworth">sports superstar</a> and well known by the public. Fans enjoyed how he broke down plays during the game. What he said always seemed to make sense and he had a gift in explaining the game to casual fans.

He even lent his broadcasting talent to video games. He appeared EA Sports’ NFL Madden 09, 10 as well as 11 and 12. Video game fans around the world can recognize his voice even if they don’t know who he is. Billions of hours of game play were played with his voice in the background calling plays while gamers controlled their virtual teams.

NBC Criticism

At one point, there was speculation of NBC letting him go for poor preseason performance which, they said, was a little for a lot of money he earned, "We can replace him with someone cheaper and younger and get just as much production, if not more. It’s time to move on",

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They said also that there are multiple reasons for that decision. Among the negative aspects of his broadcasting were the issue of having an annoying voice, repeatedly overstating the abilities of players, ignoring line play, incorrectly predicting challenge outcomes, and saying completely incorrect things as though they were fact. NBC clearly was not happy with him and ready to replace him.

His reply to NBC was “Even if the reports are true, I’m just going to keep talking about football. Talking and talking and talking and talking. I’ll talk even when I have nothing interesting to say. It’s what I do.”

Entrepreneurship:

In 2016, Cris bought Pro Football Focus. Pro Football Focus is a statistical website. “Every Player, Every Play, Every Game", was the tagline of the website. At first he used to use this website to prepare for the games and makes his predictions, but as time passed, he became addicted and that resulted in the acquisition of the website.

Over 200 employees work at PFF. Employees there spend their time watching, counting and analyzing every second of the games. Numbers are produced, crunched and recorded, then they are discussed and further analyzed. It’s a clockwork organization that has much dedication and commitment as a fire station.

Imagine how much this website helps coaches and players of different teams, imagine how many minutes, even hours of film and video content was wasted by players to study the opponents before every game. They were now able to study film in the matter of minutes. Every player is ranked, the strengths and the weaknesses, their achievements, touch downs, speeds, everything about every player is recorded and updated regularly.

The employees there are not treated as journalists but as data scientists, studying all day on their laptops and watching games, As their editor in chief, Chris stated "These aren’t trained journalists. They’re graders, analysts. Numbers guys. There’s not a ton of narrative in our stories. We’re very much a ‘Top 10 wide receivers in the NFL’ site right now."

They for sure take much pride at what they do, they make everybody's life easier, even betting websites, Collinsworth says “In 15 minutes of reading, you can know about a team."

Net Worth:

A personal appearance from Chris can cost up to 30k dollars. In his speech, he will reflect well on your company. His high price tag shows how much he can command because his speaking skills.

Sources say that Chris has a $12 million new worth, mostly earned through his broadcast career. He did not make much money from his football career because he played during an era when there wasn’t much money being given to football players. He also earned a lot of money when he was a voice in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden_NFL">Madden</a> game franchise. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden_NFL">Madden</a> games are some of the most popular games in video game history. Every time the game comes out, football fans race to the video game store to buy a copy and feed their football addiction.

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