{"id":697982,"date":"2025-11-03T05:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bob-trumpy-nfl-player-turned-nbc-broadcaster-dies-at-80\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:05:16","slug":"bob-trumpy-nfl-player-turned-nbc-broadcaster-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bob-trumpy-nfl-player-turned-nbc-broadcaster-dies-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Trumpy, NFL Player Turned NBC Broadcaster, Dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBob Trumpy, who was an original member of the Cincinnati Bengals for 10 years before enjoying a career as a network radio and television analyst, has died. He was 80.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Bengals announced that Trumpy died peacefully Sunday and was surrounded by family at home in the Cincinnati area. The team had a moment of silence before its game<\/a> against the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve known Bob since we started here and he had an extraordinary career as both a player and a broadcaster,\u201d Bengals president Mike Brown said in a statement. \u201cHe was an exceptional and rare tight end who could get downfield and split zone coverages. Speed was his hallmark. He was as fast as any wide receiver and was a deep threat. That was rare for a tight end then and it\u2019s rare now.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs a broadcaster, he made his mark both locally and nationally and excelled at sports other than football in a career that was as successful as what he accomplished on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrumpy played collegiately at the University of Utah before being drafted by the AFL expansion Bengals in the 12th round of the 1968 common draft. He scored the franchise\u2019s first receiving touchdown on a 58-yard reception against Denver on Sept. 15, 1968.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrumpy\u2019s 4,600 receiving yards, 35 receiving touchdowns and 15.4 yards per catch remain the most by a tight end in team history.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter retiring, Trumpy went on to have a distinguished career in radio and television. He joined NBC Sports as an NFL analyst in 1978 and called games through 1997, when it lost the AFC package to CBS.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrumpy was NBC\u2019s lead analyst with Dick Enberg from 1992-94 and he called two Super Bowls. He also called <\/em>and two Super Bowls with Don Criqui on radio and would be a part of three Summer Olympics and three Ryder Cups for NBC.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Pro Football Hall of Fame gave Trumpy the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2014 for lifetime achievement in NFL broadcasting.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEvery town has someone that\u2019s the heartbeat and Bob was that for Cincinnati,\u201d NBC analyst Cris Collinsworth said by phone before calling Sunday night\u2019s game between the Seattle Seahawks and Washington Commanders. \u201cHe was the most brutally honest person I\u2019ve heard and the first person I knew to make the jump to network television. He was also the carrot in front of me and someone who I aspired to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrumpy also was a sports talk show host in Cincinnati from 1980-89. In 1983, while hosting Sportstalk<\/em> on WLW, he received a call from a despondent woman who said she was going to commit suicide.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrumpy spent the next 2 1\/2 hours on the phone with the woman \u2014 who identified herself as \u201cSugar\u201d \u2014 until police located her.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know why she called a sports talk show,\u201d Trumpy told the Los Angeles Times<\/em> in 1993. \u201cIt probably was just the first phone number she heard on the radio and decided to call it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI sure didn\u2019t feel like a hero after that. I hated that woman. She wasn\u2019t the only one who had to go to a crisis center for therapy. So did I, since I couldn\u2019t figure out why I hated her. They convinced me I hated her because of what she put me through.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCollinsworth took over from Trumpy on Sportstalk<\/em> in 1989 and called it a great training ground for his eventual rise at NBC and Fox.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know anything harder than talk radio. You get over your fear of anyone being upset at you,\u201d Collinsworth said. \u201cI had fun going on his show over the years. He was a good friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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