Randy Cross
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Randall Laureat Cross (born April 25, 1954) is an American football analyst and former football player.
In the National Football League, he was a right guard and center. (NFL) He was a right guard and center.
He played college football for the UCLA Bruins and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
College career
Cross, a student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), was an All-America pick for the Bruins. As a senior, he helped lead his team to the 1976 Rose Bowl championship over top-ranked Ohio State. Cross started his career as a Center, but he was transferred to Right Guard for his junior year before playing both Guard and Center as senior on a rare rotating nine-man offensive line.
Cross on this revolving line began as RG on the 1st unit and then moved to center when the next group arrived. In 1975, he was selected First-Team All-America. In 1975, he was also a First-team All-Conference pick. He was a starter in 28 of 34 games, including the final 23. Randy Cross (and several other UCLA linemen) played collegiate rugby for the university. Randy was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2010.
Professional career
The San Francisco 49ers selected Cross in the second round of the NFL Draft in 1976. (SB XVI, XIX, and XXIII) His 13-year association with the 49ers included three Pro Bowl picks and three Super Bowl championships (SB XVI, XIX, and XXIII). In early 1989, Cross's last game as a player was Super Bowl XXIII.
He ruled center from 1976-78, 1979-86, before starting his career as a guard in the 1988 and 1988 seasons. Randy joined the Miller Lite All Star cast in a string of well-known commercials for the brewing giant following his release following Super Bowl XXIII.
Broadcasting career
Cross appeared on CBS Sports from 1989 to 1993 as a reporter for the NFC playoffs and Super Bowl XXVI. In addition,, he was an analyst for CBS Radio Sports' coverage of Super Bowl XXIV, filling in for Hank Stram when the latter was sick of laryngitis and had to leave the broadcast in the third quarter of the game.
Cross left CBS (following their loss of the NFC package to Fox) to join NBC Sports as a football analyst for NFL telecasts and a part-time analyst for Notre Dame football games. He returned to CBS Sports as a game analyst in 1998 before serving as a studio analyst on The NFL Today from 1999 to 2001. In 2002, he returned to his game analyst duties.
On Sirius NFL Radio, he also co-hosts shows. He became the color analyst for the US Naval Academy home games on CBS College Sports TV in 2009. He served as the lead color commentator for New England Patriots pre-season games from 1995 to 2012, alongside Don Criqui. On WZGC, a CBS radio station in Atlanta, Georgia, Randy was a co-host of "Rick and Randy" with Rick Kamla before being released from the station.