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As CBS had just acquired the rights to NBC's previous NFL package, Gumbel joined the broadcast team as the lead announcer with fellow NBC alumnus Phil Simms as his color commentator. [6] Gumbel was the lead announcer for the NFL on CBS between 1998 and 2003, calling Super Bowls XXXV [19] and XXXVIII. [20]
Greg Gumbel at the CBS Broadcast Center on March 7, 2021. ... he hosted "The NFL Today," the network's NFL pre-game, halftime and post-game studio show, from 1990-93 and 2004-05, Super Bowl XXVI ...
Gumbel first hosted the show from 1990 through 1993 before moving to NBC when CBS lost its NFL broadcast rights. But he returned to the network in 1998 and called play-by-play on the No. 1 ...
In 1987, the network's pre-game show was retitled NFL Live! (a title that would later be used by ESPN for the NFL analysis program previously titled NFL 2Night – although without the exclamation point – in 2003, six years after NBC lost the broadcast rights to the league's American Football Conference to CBS).
Among the milestones of Gumbel's career is being the first Black person to call play-by-play in a major American sports championship, having taken the microphone for Super Bowl XXXV in 2001.
In 2004, Jim Nantz and Greg Gumbel swapped roles on the network's NFL broadcasts. [52] Nantz took Gumbel's place as the lead play-by-play announcer while Gumbel took Nantz's spot as the host of The NFL Today. Following the 2005 season, CBS discontinued the use of sideline reporters in its regular season NFL coverage until 2014.
Greg Gumbel first started with CBS Sports in 1989, where he served as a NFL play-by-play announcer and an in-studio host for college basketball.
Gumbel hosted CBS’ NFL studio show, “The NFL Today” from 1990 to 1993 and again in 2004. He also called NFL games as the network’s lead play-by-play announcer from 1998 to 2003, including Super Bowl XXXV and XXXVIII. He returned to the NFL booth in 2005, leaving that role after the 2022 season.