Chris Berman
Chris Berman was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States on May 10th, 1955 and is the Sportscaster. At the age of 69, Chris Berman 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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Christopher James Berman (born May 10, 1955), also known as Boomer, is an American sportscaster.
He has been an anchor for SportsCenter on ESPN since 1979, joining a month after the network's inception and hosting the network's Sunday NFL Countdown program from 1985 to 2016.
He has also anchored Monday Night Countdown, U.S. Open golf, the Stanley Cup Finals, and other ESPN and ABC Sports programming.
Berman plays play-by-play of select Major League Baseball games for ESPN, which included the Home Run Derby and others until 2016.
Berman, a six-time recipient of the National Sports Media Association's "National Sportscaster of the Year" award, was instrumental in the network's rise during the network's formative years.
He is well-known for his catches and eccentric demeanor. Berman will be stepping down from several NFL-related positions at the network, but the network will continue to do so.
Early life
Berman grew up in Irvington, New York, the son of Peggy Shevell (née Tenenbaum), a Times reporter-researcher, and James Keliner Berman, a corporate executive vice president. He was born Jewish. He went to Camp Winnebago in Fayette, Maine, during his childhood. He started at Hackley School in 1970 and graduated Brown University in 1977 with a degree in history, where he served as the sports director of the school's radio station, WBRU.
Personal life
In 1983, Berman married Katherine "Kathy" Alexinski. On May 10, 2017, she was killed in a traffic accident in Woodbury, Connecticut. Katherine Berman was inebriated when she collided with another vehicle, killing the other driver. The couple have two children.
Career (1977–present)
Berman's sports broadcasting career began at WVIT-TV in Hartford, where he appeared on weekends as a weekend sports anchor. He joined ESPN in 1979, a month after it was founded, and has been with the network since. He is one of ESPN's longest-serving employees and the only remaining SportsCenter anchor from 1979. He appeared on Sunday's Countdown and ten years hosting Monday Night Countdown for 31 years. In addition, he hosts the evening SportsCenter during the NFL season (generally at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time or 11 p.m. Eastern Time) along with Herm Edwards, who took over Tom Jackson for the 2016 season. Berman appears on Sportscenter late at night (midnight to 1 a.m.) hosting brief segments titled "Chris Berman's two-minute drill." From 1988-89, he appeared on ESPN's first game show, Boardwalk, and Baseball's Super Bowl of Sports Trivia.
Berman had been dubbed the "head of the ESPN team" and one of the most influential sportscasters in the industry by 1993. "When Chris is on, shut down your TV, and open your window, it will be the true test." You will hear him. According to ESPN anchor Keith Olbermann, the microphone is nothing but a prop." The Associated Press published a long retrospective on Berman's 30-year tenure with ESPN in December 2008. Norby Williamson, ESPN's vice president of production, said, "He is our most important individual." "He is the face of ESPN," the narrator said. Berman said that his ESPN deal will end on his 55th birthday and that he does not see himself broadcasting into his 60s. ESPN, on the other hand, extended Berman's contract for an undisclosed period of time, only noting that it was a multi-year contract. The deal was then set to come to an end at the end of 2016.
Berman hosted Monday Night Football as well as live coverage of three Super Bowls for ABC Sports from 1995 to 2006. Since ESPN received the rights in 2006, he continued to host MNF.
Berman, a season ticket holder for the Hartford Whalers, was a big fan of the team's stay in Connecticut. He makes occasional mention of the team, and even started humming Brass Bonanza, the team's theme song. In recent years, Berman has also been a strong supporter of the Buffalo Bills. In an interview with Buffalo Bills reporter and play-by-play actor John Murphy on July 26, 2012, Berman said you could call him a "Bills Booster." "No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills," Berman's on-air phrase says. In addition,, Bruce Smith's Bills Hall of Fame induction in September 2016 includes team founder Ralph Wilson's induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and team founder Ralph Wilson's induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Berman signed a new deal in January 2017 for a reduced schedule, but ESPN remains.
Berman served as the on-field emcee for Thurman Thomas's number retirement celebration on October 29, 2018. Berman and longtime Red Sox broadcaster Joe Castiglione produced a three-game series for the Boston Red Sox Radio Network in May 2019.
Berman and Tom Jackson reunited in 2019 for a revival of NFL Primetime, which is exclusively on ESPN+. In addition,, they have also hosted the "fastest three minutes" segments on the Monday Night Football halftime show.
Berman signed a multi-year deal with ESPN in May 2021 to continue to host NFL PrimeTime. Berman said in the ESPN employment report, "ESPN has accounted for over two-thirds of my life." It's honor to say that what I do still does."
Berman is well-known for his various catchwords and player nicknames.
Berman makes predictions on Sunday and adopts the persona of his alter ego, "The Swami." For seven years, "The Swami" predicted a Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and the Buffalo Bills, one or the other – but never both – making it during that time.
Berman appeared in Adam Sandler's 1998 comedy The Waterboy as well as Sandler's The Longest Yard in 2005, he played himself as the prison football game's play-by-play announcer. Berman also appeared in Necessary Roughness in 1991, The Program in 1993 (thought he was a little out of place playing college football) Little Big League in 1994, as well as Eddie and Kingpin in 1996. In the 1995 Hootie and the Blowfish film "Only Wanna Be With You," he made a cameo appearance. Berman appeared in the 2013 film Grown Ups 2. Don Shula, Dan Marino, Terry Bradshaw, and Mike Golic are among the Nutrisystem's celebrities who have appeared in Nutrisystem commercials, displaying how much weight they shed by using some of his trademark terms and acronyms. He also works in retail shops for insurance company Carshield.
In ESPN NFL 2K5's SportsCenter, he appears as the host of SportsCenter; he also serves as an unlockable free agent.
