Cris Collinsworth walked off an NFL field as a player for the last time 30 years ago, after his Bengals lost to the 49ers in Super Bowl XXIII. It wasn’t long before he walked into a broadcasting career that’s still going strong.
But that wasn’t his plan.
“All I wanted to do was finish law school and become an attorney,” said Collinsworth, a former wide receiver whom the Bengals drafted in the second round in 1981 out of Florida. “But I had just gotten married, we had a baby on the way, and so I thought I could steal a few dollars to pay for law school.