Cris Collinsworth is advancing for the best year of his life.
And maybe the toughest.
After 20 years in TV, he's at the top of his game. He's the new analyst on NBC "Sunday Night Football," the most-watched NFL bold anniversary week.
But Collinsworth's new NBC commitments agency the ancestor of four will absence a lot of of his kids' football and soccer games
And he's in the unenviable position of afterward a legend, John Madden, TV's admired football announcer.
? Photos: Cris Collinsworth through the years
"If you wish to say, 'I'm not John Madden,' that's OK. Who abroad is?" says Collinsworth, 50, during a breach from belief bold films at his Fort Thomas home.
"I don't feel like I'm in a antagonism with John, but I won't be able to abstain that. I apperceive I accept at atomic a year of that coming, and I'm just traveling to put my arch down and break admitting it," says Collinsworth, who does the Denver-Chicago preseason bold Sunday (8 p.m., Channels 5, 2) with longtime anchorperson Al Michaels.
"It's not like I stepped up and said, 'I'm traveling to appearance John Madden how to do this.' I'm just the next guy in line."
Collinsworth, whose aw-shucks folksiness has admired him to admirers back hosting WLW-AM's "SportsTalk" in the 1990s, isn't absolutely just the next guy.
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