Cris Collinsworth Was a Big Star With the Ladies (Especially the Young Ones) in the 1980s
ESPN, Former Athletes, Media Gossip/Musings, Video September 12th. 2009, 1:43pmWhy, Cris, did the ladies like you in 1984*? “Probably because of the money. I’m not going to deny it. I walk around with $100 bills hanging out of my pockets, usually.”* We surmise 1984 because that’s the earliest year in the 1980s when the Raiders played the Seahawks on MNF.
Three other great quotes Collinsworth should joke about Sunday night:
* “There’s not anything more competitive than trying to find ‘the girl.’”
* “I like girls that aren’t too bright, because you can trick them a little bit…”
* “High school girls love me – 14-18, I’m a big star with them. As soon as they mature, after about 18, they start figuring out, wait a minute …”
Collinsworth, dapper and moderately talented on the dance floor in the video above, was 25-years-old in 1984, and fresh off three straight trips to the Pro Bowl. Difficult to guess what his salary might have been; some funky happenings right around that time with the UFL resulted in a spike for most players. If we had to toss a number out, it’d be anywhere between $250,000-$400,000. [Deadspin]
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September 12th, 2009 at 1:47 PM
Good lord, that was an 80’s explosion.
September 12th, 2009 at 1:48 PM
Some guys get all the breaks.
September 12th, 2009 at 1:50 PM
That’s what I like about high school girls……….
/he’s a mustache away from being Wooderson in that video
September 12th, 2009 at 1:52 PM
not entirely sure what that dance move he’s doing around the 130 mark … but that song rocks.
used to play it at the Forum during laker games in the 80s. a lasting memory from my first and only trip there
September 12th, 2009 at 1:55 PM
“I’m So Excited” by the Pointer Sisters
September 12th, 2009 at 1:57 PM
ok, thats the funniest thing ever.
September 12th, 2009 at 1:57 PM
“14-18″
that’s illegal in most states…
September 12th, 2009 at 1:58 PM
He looks like less fortunate brother of Matthew McConaughey in that video.
September 12th, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Goodell probably looking in to whether he can suspend him for that line about 14 year olds.
September 12th, 2009 at 1:59 PM
that was sweet. If I had any hundred dollar bills, I’d try that trick. The 80’s were awesome.
September 12th, 2009 at 1:59 PM
^2
September 12th, 2009 at 2:00 PM
ah, the 80’s. A simpler time when you can be a child molester and people would look the other way…
September 12th, 2009 at 2:00 PM
am I right, jpq?
September 12th, 2009 at 2:01 PM
See comment 3.
/Dazed and Confused’d
//you have to see it if you haven’t
September 12th, 2009 at 2:02 PM
I prefer the Rod Stewart song myself
September 12th, 2009 at 2:06 PM
@Jay: My bad, totally missed that.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:06 PM
If Kevin Walter had that interview today, how long before he faces the commish?
September 12th, 2009 at 2:09 PM
/sad but true
September 12th, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Duke finally has its first lead of the year.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Please, for the love of God, stop showing clips of the videogame when you preview today’s big college football games.
/my requisite ESPN bitching for the day
September 12th, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Forget Duke, has any ACC team had a lead against anyone outside of an in-conference matchup?
September 12th, 2009 at 2:14 PM
I don’t mind the clips, just leave the creep mascots out of it
/hate gingers, especially ND gingers
September 12th, 2009 at 2:15 PM
what if T.O. had that interview today?
September 12th, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Did VT not have a lead at one point in time against Alabama?
September 12th, 2009 at 2:16 PM
what if T.O. had that interview today?
next question.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Probably. I wish they would have won.
I see that UNC is being shut out by UConn late in the 3rd. I hope for your conference’s sake that Miami or Georgia Tech is for real.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Wait, so it’s ok for a 25 year old man to be hitting on high school girls? Or is it that all of y’all attention spans so short that you can’t look pass the shitty 80’s background?
September 12th, 2009 at 2:20 PM
ND is going to rape michigan state next week. I am actually scared for how bad its going to be.
Sparty- get ready to sing in that podcast.
/Fuck Michigan…. and weddings
September 12th, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Makblunt, we’re talking about a generation where Tila Tequila is famous, and all you have to do to gain celebrity is release a homemade porno or fuck a celebrity. It’s wrong, but I don’t think too many people care.
/now get out of my yard
September 12th, 2009 at 2:24 PM
eh, I guess.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:26 PM
eh, I guess.
what are we supposed to do, grab pitchforks and go hunt down Cris Collinsworth?
September 12th, 2009 at 2:27 PM
The similarity to McConaughey is ridiculous. Are we sure thats Collinsworth and not Mr Naked bongo?
September 12th, 2009 at 2:29 PM
No, I was saying if an athlete said something that stupid today, pitchforks would be grabbed. Maybe I’m wrong.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:30 PM
finally a turnover.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Collinsworth really needs to switch back to that hairstyle.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Hey, I thought Duke was dead in the water after last week…now I think Duke’s got a shot against UVA, UNC, and Wake.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:34 PM
BTW, Duke finally bench Lewis and put in Renfree, the 4 star that dissed ND and OSU for Duke. He’s 6-7 for 100 yards and 2 scores.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:35 PM
NFL players have KILLED people and then become Super Bowl MVPs the next year.
/allegedly
September 12th, 2009 at 2:41 PM
A wisconsin rb with breakaway speed? that’s unpossible. wisky up now.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:41 PM
what a run by clay. badgers by 3…
September 12th, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Preach on Brotha Jay …and folks wonder why I complain about so many bojacks and douchebags!
Great find TBL Godfather +3
Wow Keith Jackson for MNF too! Oh geez those days of mousse and helmet-head haircuts and department store fashion …if you live in Jerkwater or Circlejerk OH PA NY NJ or VA no worries they never left your lame ass.
Terre Blair sure looks like either she was served a lot of shank protein or needed quite a bit in those days. I wonder if Collinsworth gave her due service in exchange for the interview?
Wow he was into kiddie porn? Say what!
I NEVER liked the guy back to those days with the Bengals, and this just provides more evidence for such a view.
This post was great for The Mission. Carry on please.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:43 PM
I switched to ESPNU. UNC is desperately trying to tie this thing up.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Collinsworth really needs to switch back to that hairstyle
not until he tries the Drew Brees look first…
September 12th, 2009 at 2:47 PM
I am breathlessly anticipating the BYU/Tulane game. A top-ten team coming into the Superdome. I’m guessing the over/under for todays crowd will be about 8,000 unless the South Louisiana Mormon population comes out in droves.
/serious
September 12th, 2009 at 2:50 PM
UNC an XP away from tying it up. 2:36 left to go.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:51 PM
Hot damn, about damn time for the duke d line to establish itself.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:53 PM
I’ve always been salty on Collinsworth because of the way he trashed Marino for never getting a Super Bowl ring EVERY SINGLE WEEK on Inside the NFL. I really want to like him, but he just seems so smug all the time.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Guy who caught the TD for UNC is being carted off the field in serious pain. I think I heard them say it happened during the celebration.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:55 PM
hahahaha
/fuck UNC
September 12th, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Just showed the replay. Looked like a fluke serious injury.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Incredibly stupid decision by UConn. They just shit away this game. Incredible.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Pick-6, game over, Duke actually looks like a fucking football team today
September 12th, 2009 at 3:05 PM
…and UNC lets them off the hook. They get a safety on a stupid screen pass out their own end zone, and then let them recover the on-sides safety kick.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Just need Florida to win by more than 33 and the first parlay of the day is a success
September 12th, 2009 at 3:08 PM
ROFL, another pick 6 on back to back plays, same guy.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Holy shit 3 games headed for OT already today and NC/UCONN not due a safety? I had UCONN +5 anyway, and OT might have done me in so I don’t care (paper bet only , $12)
So far looking 1-1 for the day on paper.
NCAA 13 paper bets today, 2 for real.
NFL 5 paper bets, none for real.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Sparty must be having a coronary.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:09 PM
lets go CHIPPEWAS!!!
September 12th, 2009 at 3:12 PM
The ACC has come to life!
/mild sarcasm
September 12th, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Central Michigan going for the win…. loving it
September 12th, 2009 at 3:14 PM
That’s kind of why I like him, he doesn’t hold back a whole lot.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Army has a 6′10″ wide receiver.
wtf…
September 12th, 2009 at 3:15 PM
and Sparty is going to escape amazing embarrassment.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:18 PM
not yet he doesn’t
September 12th, 2009 at 3:18 PM
@jay. i went to the tcu-byu game in fort worth last year and there were a ton of mormons there. if there are any in new orleans, they will be at the game.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:22 PM
…and the Chippewas are in FG range.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Who’s the person that asked this week why Michigan State wasn’t ranked?
Um, yeah.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:23 PM
If Michigan finishes 3rd in the Big 10 this year I’m gonna vomit.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Terre Blair > wendi nix
/tear drob titties
September 12th, 2009 at 3:24 PM
If these past two weeks are any indication of what the Big Ten is going to look like this year…
Well lets just say I won’t be watching channels 609-613 on directtv anytime soon.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:28 PM
oohhhh noooo sparty
/snickers
September 12th, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Michigan State is gonna lose this thing.
Two miracles in 30 minutes. CMU and UNC.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:29 PM
hehehe spartans
September 12th, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Whichever person that was, obviously he is a bojack homer who is working his way up to live in Jerkwater instead of his rusty trailer down by the river.
/Paolo Farley’d