Born on July 17, 1940 in Duluth situated in Minnesota, Merton Laverne Lundquist Jr. spent most of his childhood days growing up in Minnesota. There is no information available about his parents or siblings. He did his schooling from the Austin High School situated in Austin, Texas. After his graduation from high school, he went on to attend Texas Lutheran University situated in Texas. He graduated in the year 1962 from the university. He is an American by nationality and belongs to white ethnicity. After his graduation from the Texas Lutheran University, he went to Augustana Seminary situated in Illinois. He was also a good player of baseball and basketball and was a part of WOC, Davenport.
From a very young age, he was interested in becoming a broadcaster and his strong voice was high appreciated. He started his career with working for WFAA, where he was a sports anchor. Along with this, he also worked with KTBC and was also a radio anchor. After this, in the year 1967, he went on to work for Cowboys Radio Network. He worked with them for many years, but left this work in the year 1984. He became most famous for his “sickest man in America” line in the 1977 season when the Cowboys won in Super Bowl XII. In the year 1974, he joined ABC Sports as a sports anchor, but left the network after seven years. Before that, he grabbed media attention when he started working as a commentator for the show Bowling for Dallas in 1970. This game show was broadcasted on the ABC station, WFAA-TV.
After leaving ABC sports, he then joined CBS network in the year 1982. In the year 1995, he left CBS network also and started working for the TNT cable. He worked with TNT cable for three years, but left that work and returned to CBS in 1997. He is presently working as the play-by-play broadcaster for college football and basketball. He is also known for covering sports events like PGA Tour golf, CBS, TNT’s NBA games and Sunday Night Football. He was also selected as the announcer for the figure skating in the Winter Olympics along with Scott Hamilton. He served as the announcer for the event in the year 1992, 1994 as well as 1998. He was added to the Sun Bowl Hall of Fame in the year 2005. He was also honoured with the Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscaster and Sportswriters Association and he was the recipient of this honor for seven consecutive years.
According to his bio, he has married thrice in his lifetime. He married his first wife Patricia on 24 June 1967. Their marriage ended in divorce in the year 1971. He then went on to marry Kathy Vernon in the year 1972. After being together for some years, this marriage also ended in divorce in the year 1980. There is no news of any children with the first two wives. He married his current wife Nancy Webb in the year 1982 and they are proud parents of a kid named Vaughan Matthew Lundquist. According to his biography, his salary is pretty high with a net worth of 1.5 Million.
| Birth Date: | 17 Jul, 1940 |
| Age: | 79 yrs |
| Occupations: | Sports commentator |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Duluth |
| Education: | Texas Lutheran University |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American sportscaster |
| Net Worth 2021: | 2 million |
