Cris Collinsworth Addresses Health Concerns After NBC’s Sunday Night Football Appearance

After fans took to social media, concerned over sports announcer Cris Collinsworth’s voice, the veteran commentator is speaking out. While Collinsworth’s work in the NBC Sunday Night Football booth is typically uneventful, the league’s premiere game on Sunday night found him a bit under the weather. Naturally, fans tuning in to the game between the Cowboys and Buccaneers voiced their own concern for the former NFL star. 

The catch is that Collinsworth doesn’t sound much different than he normally does. It’s possible that we’re not tuning in as much, but it must’ve been noticeable to most fans. Collinsworth was under the weather, though, and co-announcer Mike Tirico made a note on-air.

Though sounding more raspy than usual, the 63-year-old was just sick, with his co-announcer Mike Tirico speaking up on-air about the fan reaction on social media. “Hey, let’s tell everybody, you feel fine,” Tirico said to which Collinsworth replied, “I feel great.” Reiterating that his co-star was all good, Tirico added, “You feel fine, it’s just two games, three days, red-eyes, a bunch of travel. My man’s playing hurt!”

While he doesn’t seem to be on death’s door, fans couldn’t help making jokes and questioning if the former Bengals star needed some assistance. Other comments theorized Collinsworth had been hitting the cigarettes hard, that he was hungover, and a few others. Scroll down to take in some of the better responses.

Help This Man

“NBC Sports’ Cris Collinsworth is definitely playing hurt tonight. Voice is strained, doesn’t have the same energy. But he’s gutting out the telecast,” a final comment added, summing up how a lot of people felt.

Creativity Flowing!

“Cris Collinsworth sounds like he slept in a refrigerator last night,” another added. Folks really did their best to be creative with some of these jokes.

Moment of Silence!

View on X

“Poor Cris Collinsworth…the lads voice on [SNFonNBC] sounds like he’s got an electric shaver stuck in his throat…” a fourth laid in from across the pond.

Rolling Out of An Ash Tray

“Cris Collinsworth sounding like a waffle house waitress,” a third wrote, possibly capturing the moment perfectly.

Back to School

“Cris Collinsworth sounds like I tried to sound when I would call insick to my college job on Monday mornings,” another added, getting aflashback to those harder days in the classroom.

Tip Top Shape!

“Cris Collinsworth is that level of sick where you tell your buddies it’s just a cold, and you’ve tested negative for COVID twice already, and you actually feel way better than you sound, but no one is buying it,” one fan wrote.