Greg Gumbel was born in the state of Louisiana, in the city of New Orleans. He is a first child to his parents who are Rhea Alice LeCesne and Richard Gumbel who was a judge. While growing, he lived on the South Side of Chicago and he graduated from De La Salle Institute. Before she decided to become the broadcaster, he got a BA degree of English in the Loras College of Iowa and he was playing baseball there. He has two sisters who are Rhonda Gumbel-Thomas and Renee Gumbel Farrahi.

Greg Gumbel was informed by his brother Bryant about auditions on Chicago TV station called WMAQ-TV and he went to audition for the role and at that time he was just selling the hospital supplies in the city of Detroit. He got the job and he worked for over seven years there. He replaced a sportscaster who became the president for ABC sports. Before he was raised to the prominence at the CBS, he was working on the WFAN, ESPN and MSG. when the MSG had the huge contract of broadcasting the New York Yankee games; he was the host of the pregame and also of the postgame shows. Besides the duties on MSG, he was the host for the radio morning show of WFAN.

Greg Gumbel has the net worth of 16 million dollars and he started to work in the year 1973. He lives in Florida together with his brother Bryant and his wife Mercy. For his political stands, he once refused to attend the NASCAR banquet to honor Clarence Thomas who is a Supreme Court Justice because he said that he does not agree with his political opinion. He appeared on the radio show of Howard Stern many times. Greg Gumbel has the legacy of being the third person to be play by play announcer and a host of the Super Bowls when he hosted XXVI, XXX and also XXXII Super Bowls and he called for XXXV with XXXVII Super Bowls. The fourth man to do this was Jim Nantz. His exact height is not recorded and his salary is believed to be over a million yearly. His twitter account is @GregBumbel.