Brian Griese
Brian Griese was born in Miami, Florida, United States on March 18th, 1975 and is the Football Player. At the age of 49, Brian Griese biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Brian David Griese (born March 18, 1975) is a former American football quarterback and current color commentator for ESPN College Football.
In the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft, he was drafted by the Broncos.
He played high school football at Christopher Columbus High School and later college football at Michigan. In 1998, he earned a Super Bowl ring with the Broncos, as John Elway led the Broncos to victory over the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl XXIII.
Elway was fired following the Super Bowl and Griese as the Broncos' starting quarterback for the 1999 season.
In 2000, Griese was a Pro Bowl pick with the Broncos.
Since leaving the Broncos, he played quarterback for the Miami Dolphins (5 games in 2003 and 2007), the Chicago Bears (13 games in 2006 and 2007, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (21 games in 2004, 2005, 2008).
He is the son of Hall of Fame quarterback Bob Griese.
Early years
Griese was born in Miami, Florida, and he attended Christopher Columbus High School in Miami, where he played football, basketball, and golf. Brian is the uncle of former NFL Quarterback Bob Griese.
Personal life
Griese earned his bachelor's degree in a specialized concentration from Michigan in 1997.
Griese is the founder and board president of Judi's House, a children's grief support center in Denver, Colorado. Judi Griese, Brian's mother, died of breast cancer when Brian was 12. Brian's grieving process was difficult, so he created Judi's House to help grieving children in the Denver area.
He also helped create what would become the Griese, Hutchinson, and Woodson Champions for Children's Hearts golf weekend in May 2007. The fundraiser raised money for the construction of the C.S.'s capital. The Michigan Congenital Heart Center (MCHC), which is part of Mott, is part of the Mott Children's Hospital as well as the Michigan Congenital Heart Center (MCHC), which is located within Mott. He also works with the From the Heart Organization, which goes back to his playing days in Ann Arbor, where he would visit Mott every week.
Griese was given the 2011 Patterson Award for Excellence in Sports Philanthropy, which is given each year by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to recognize and promote selfless service among people in the field of sports. He was named the recipient of both the Big Ten's Dungy-Thompson Humanitarian Award in 2014 and the Big Ten's Ford-Kinnick Leadership Award in 2015, becoming the first individual to be honoured with both of the conference's annual awards. These awards are given to Big Ten football players who have excelled in leadership and humanitarianism after their college careers have ended.
Brian and his dad, Bob Griese, became the first father-and-son pair to win a Super Bowl in NFL history. Brian and his father wrote Undefeated (ISBN 0-7852-7021-3), a book that was published in 2000 about their lives through their unbeaten years and experience with Brian's mother and Bob's first wife, Judi.
Griese married Brook McClintic, a clinical psychologist, on the island of St. John in the United States Virgin Islands in the spring of 2004. While Griese was playing for the Denver Broncos, the two met. Brian and Brook had a child on April 6, 2006, a baby girl they named Annalia Rose.
College career
Griese played college football at the University of Michigan from 1993 to 1997. Since he did not receive a scholarship, Michigan moved on to the football team, he continued to play. He turned down scholarships from Purdue (his father's alma mater) and Kentucky. Griese took over as the starting quarterback after Scott Dreisbach was injured five games into the 1995 season after being redshirted in 1993 and limited to placeholding duties. Griese began for the remainder of the 1995 season, peaking with a shock of #2 ranked Ohio State, 31–23.
Dreisbach recovered his starting job and Griese returned to the bench, serving as the team's pooch punter at the start of the 1996 season. Griese took him at halftime against Ohio State, where he led the Wolverines to another surprise victory over the Buckeyes, 13-199. Griese ended the season on a 17-14 loss to Alabama in the Outback Bowl, beginning in a 17–14 defeat.
Griese was the starter in 1997. Heisman Trophy winner Charles Woodson led the Wolverines to an undefeated season and a share of the national championship. In Michigan's victory over Washington State, Griese was named MVP of the 1998 Rose Bowl, passing for 251 yards and three touchdowns.
Griese had a 17-0 record as a starter in Michigan. In which he quarterbacked, the Wolverines won all three games against Ohio State. On December 30, 2012, he was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.
Professional career
Griese was selected by the Denver Broncos in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He started his career as a third-string back up to Bubby Brister and John Elway. In 1998, he became a Super Bowl champion, but the bulk of the season was spent on the sidelines. Griese became the Broncos' starting quarterback following Elway's retirement in 1999. Griese's rookie season as starter earned 75.6 percent, but the next year saw him leap to 102.9. His efforts earned him an invitation to the 2000 Pro Bowl.
Griese maintained a high percentage of his passes on a regular basis. He has had four seasons with a better than 64% completion rate, including one year (2004), in which he obtained 63.3 percent of his passes. Nonetheless, he was unable to establish himself as one of the league's best quarterbacks due to injuries and a penchant for interceptions. Following the 2002 season, he was released by the Broncos and was replaced by former Cardinals starter Jake Plummer.
He signed with the Miami Dolphins in June 2003. Since being released in February 2004, his time with the Dolphins, where his father Bob Griese played his entire 14-year career, was brief. Griese was given the starting job when the Dolphins starting quarterback Jay Fiedler was hurt. In a blowout victory over San Diego, Griese got off to a good start as a Dolphin, with three touchdowns and zero interceptions.
Griese joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and put on a good showing, as well as being a catalyst for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' revival. Griese led them to their first successes in 2004 with a 97.5 QB rating and a 5–1 record before falling to a torn ACL. In 2006, the Buccaneers cut Griese after suffering a knee injury in order to free up funds for the salary cap.
He committed to the Chicago Bears for five years on March 21, 2006.
Griese saw little action after signing with the Bears. Despite being better than Rex Grossman in the 2006 preseason, Bears coach Lovie Smith decided to keep Griese as the Bears' second-string quarterback. At the end of major victories, he earned a late fourth quarter snap at the end of the season. Though Grossman appeared in every Bears game during the 2006 season, Smith gave Griese some extra game time in week 15, after the Bears had clinched home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. Griese completed six of nine passes for 51 yards, resulting in several game-winning Robbie Gould field goals. For the second half of Smith's last regular season game against the Green Bay Packers, he called on Griese to help a struggling Grossman. Griese, on the other hand, did not do a lot better job by passing 5 of 15 passes for 124 yards, one touchdown, and two interceptions. Although some Chicagoans skepticism of Grossman's potential to lead the Bears to the Super Bowl, Smith defended Grossman and named him the team's starter throughout the playoffs. The Bears went on to win the 2006 NFC Championship, but the Indianapolis Colts lost Super Bowl XLI to the Indianapolis Colts.
Smith switched to Griese to lead the team after Grossman struggled during the first three outings of the 2007 Chicago Bears season. Griese threw two touchdowns and three interceptions against the Detroit Lions in his first outing as a Bears starter. He led the Bears on a game-winning streak against the Philadelphia Eagles next week, during which he called the plays due to a headset malfunction. Griese lost his starting position against the Oakland Raiders this week after suffering a serious injury against the Oakland Lions this week. Griese was back in the fold later this season after Grossman sustained a knee injury against the Washington Redskins. Kyle Orton, on the other hand, started the Bears out of the playoffs, but the Bears were able to play in the remaining three games of the season.
Griese was traded by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in exchange for a sixth round pick in the 2009 draft on March 3, 2008. He appeared in the Buccaneers' second game of the season, a home game against the Atlanta Falcons, which the Buccaneers defeated 24–9. Griese completed 18 of 31 passes, throwing for 160 yards with just one touchdown. Griese's return to his hometown, the Chicago Bears, was a success, and he threw for 407 yards and 2 touchdowns to help the Buccaneers beat the Chicago Bears 27-24 in overtime. He started the following week and then again, throwing three interceptions, he completed 15 of 30 passes for 149 yards, 1 touchdown, and led the Buccaneers to a victory over the Green Bay Packers by 31-21. On December 14, 2008, Griese began against the Atlanta Falcons again, subbing for Jeff Garcia, who had been sidelined with a calf injury. He completed 26 of 37 passes for 269 yards and one touchdown. Griese denied an intercept and was fired four times. The Buccaneers lost the game in overtime by 13–10. He started his Tampa Bay career as 8–2. He was first published on July 13, 2009. Griese's father resigned from football after his release.
Broadcasting career
Griese has been with ESPN since 2009, spending until 2020 as an analyst on the network's college football coverage. Griese has also served as a radio colour commentator for 850 KOA (AM)'s coverage of the Denver Broncos' football in the 2010 and 2011 seasons.
Griese made his debut in Monday Night Football, alongside Steve Levy and Louis Riddick.
Coaching career
Griese was hired by the San Francisco 49ers as the quarterbacks coach, replacing Rich Scangarello, who had left to become Kentucky's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach on March 4, 2022. Kyle Shanahan, the 49ers' head coach, was drafted by Shanahan's father Mike Shanahan as the Denver Broncos' Head Coach from 2004 to 2005.