Hope You Like One of These Guys.

Because these are your choices for a while

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So, Cris Collinsworth haters, today is not your day. According to Andrew Marchand’s reporting for The Athletic, Collinsworth and NBC are closing in on an upgraded deal that will bind the NFL analyst to the network and its Sunday Night Football broadcasts through the 2029 season, including NBC’s ownage of the Super Bowl in early 2030.

That’s quite a while to contemplate how much Collinsworth drives you crazy, assuming you somehow fall into that mix. I’ve never understood the antipathy, but to each his own.

And that is actually the news here, that thing about finding an analyst to love — or at least not to hate. Because the Collinsworth deal appears to solidify the NFL’s top broadcasting crews for a long, long time to come.