For the first time in over three decades, Greg Gumbel won’t be covering the NFL next season.
that the 76-year-old Gumbel signed a new deal with the network to remain the host of the NCAA Tournament, but bow out of the network’s professional football coverage.
Gumbel served as host of CBS’ “NFL Today” studio show from 1990-93, and then became the anchor of NBC’s NFL coverage after CBS lost the league’s rights.From the 1998 through 2003 seasons, Gumbel was CBS’ top NFL play-by-play announcer, alongside Phil Simms. The pair called Super Bowl XXXV between the Ravens and Giants in 2001 and Super Bowl XXXVIII between the Panthers and Patriots in 2004.Getty Images
Gumbel transitioned back to the studio for three years, and then returned to calling games from 2006 through this past season. Last offseason, when Joe Buck and Troy Aikman got ESPN to back up the Brinks truck and Amazon paid a mint for Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit to call games, Gumbel“I will tell you, it has gotten crazy. I don’t have any need to be jealous of it. I’ve been treated really nicely and have always been appreciative of what I’ve been able to do for a long, long time,” Gumbel said.Greg Gumbel interviewing shock jock Steve Dahl at Disco Demolition Night in Chicago in 1979.
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