The duo Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit will call an NFL game instead of college football Saturday for the Chiefs vs. Broncos.
Fowler and Herbstreit often team up to announce college football games throughout the season. About last week, they called the College Football Playoff semi-final between Michigan and Georgia, and the Rose Bowl between Ohio State and Utah. The duo will then host the College Football Playoff championship game in Indianapolis on Monday, January 10.
This will be the second time Fowler and Herbstreit have hosted an NFL game together. In the 2020 season, the pair called the game Steelers vs. Giants in Week 1.
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Why Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit Announce Chiefs vs. Broncos?
On December 14, 2021, ESPN announced Fowler and Herbstreit would call one of their Saturday doubles games in Week 18 for the NFL with side reporting by Laura Rutledge.
The first NFL game that Fowler and Herbstreit worked together in 2020 was praised by the majority of fans. So when another opportunity opened up for the college football duo to call an NFL game, ESPN offered the two for the role.
The ESPN “Monday Night Football” casual crew that includes Steve Levy, Brian Griese, Louis Riddick, Lisa Salters and John Parry will make Saturday’s second game on ESPN between the Cowboys and Eagles.
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Will Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit call any NFL playoffs?
Fowler and Herbstreit both work for ESPN reporting. The playoffs for this season will be broadcast on NBC, ABC, CBS, and ESPN.
Fowler and Herbstreit will not call any playoffs this year. ESPN only aired one playoff, an unspecified wild card game on Monday night, January 17. Their usual announcer team of Steve Levy, Brian Griese, Louis Riddick, and Lisa Salters will perform. show game.
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How long have Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit worked together?
Fowler and Herbstreit started calling football games together in 2014, only working on college football games until they called their first NFL game in 2020. Since then, this is only the second NFL game they have worked together. They are best known for calling most of ABC’s Saturday night college football pitches.
However, the couple has been working together simultaneously for more than 25 years. Fowler began his journalism career with ESPN in 1988 while he worked as a sideline reporter for college football. In 1990, he began hosting College GameDay. Herbstreit joined ESPN in 1995 as a sideline reporter, just two years after his college football career at Ohio State ended. Herbstreit joined College GameDay in 1996.
