But as early as high school, he was getting attention for his football skills, much like his dad's. Katie is at Golf Channel’s GolfNow, working as a manager in business marketing, while Jac joined ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown as a features reporter. Between Collinsworth's connection to sports and Bankemper's work as an attorney, sports definitely seem to have won out. Perhaps the best known is Austin, their son who saw success playing high school football and then went on to play at the University of Notre Dame. He told The Harvard Crimson that he used to coach track by running behind the team and singing T-Pain's "Get Low. than the other way around. A former football star for the University of Florida and then the Cincinnati Bengals, Collinsworth married Holly Bankemper, his law school classmate, and had four children, a … She continues to practice law in the Cincinnati area whereas her husband has grown rather famous — as you well know — working in sports broadcasting for NBC, HBO, Fox, and the NFL Network. It's a little dinky town," Collinsworth told the paper. Chris Collingwood (born October 3, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, and artist. Collingwood was born in Britain but grew up in Sellersville, Pennsylvania. He is best known as the former lead vocalist and founding member of the power pop band Fountains of Wayne. ", "They hated it because I can’t sing at all, and I certainly can’t sing one of their songs from their era," Collinsworth told the college newspaper. "The more I would sing, the faster they would run. She's not given interviews and appears in just a few of Collinsworth's Instagram photos at events like their son's college graduation and a Labor Day fireworks show. NBC's top football analyst Cris Collinsworth, who will be joining the Super Bowl broadcast to add color to Al Michaels' play-by-plays, is a family man. Collinsworth met his now wife when the two were attending University of Cincinnati, both in law school. Their kids have not kept as low of a profile, however. A former football star for the University of Florida and then the Cincinnati Bengals, Collinsworth married Holly Bankemper, his law school classmate, and had four children, a couple of whom have followed Collinsworth into sports. Peter Kramer/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images. I am here to buy tapes to listen to as my wife – my wife! In 2014, as a fifth-year senior, he hurt his shoulder and underwent surgery. One of the reasons that she's able to keep a low profile is likely the fact that the family has made their home base in her hometown of Fort Thomas, Kentucky. Bankemper mostly keeps out of the public eye. Jac's main experience came during his time at Notre Dame, covering — among other things — the football team. "You could take this town and put it out in the middle of Montana somewhere, and it would be the same sort of feel to Fort Thomas, and yet in five minutes you're in downtown Cincinnati. Collingwood has admitted to having trouble with alcohol in the past, even stating that his heavy drinking resulted in him having only contributed three songs to the band's fourth studio album, Traffic and Weather. "Eclectic Sounds of New Jersey, Echoing From Coast to Coast", "Snow Patrol works through writer's block", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Collingwood&oldid=987708136, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 8 November 2020, at 19:23. 2020 Bustle Digital Group. The Collinsworths' other son, Jac, and other daughter, Katie, both have worked in media. But he’s been doing it for seven years. [2], Collingwood's major influences are The Beatles, The Zombies, The Hollies, Aztec Camera, Squeeze, and Blue Öyster Cult.[3]. ", Collinsworth's daughter Ashley went to Harvard and ran track. "You hear people say, 'Oh, he’s just such a natural,'" Collinsworth said to Sporting News. He had previously worked for NBC during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two of the Collinsworth children have reached some prominence through sports. The couple married in 1996. Collingwood's major influences are The Beatles, The Zombies, The Hollies, Aztec Camera, Squeeze, and Blue Öyster Cult. Dates of Libra are … "Believe me, I'm more his dad than he's my son now," Collinsworth told The Lexington Herald-Leader in 2009. "A lot more people come up to me and say, 'Aren't you Austin's dad?' The two married in 1989. He attended Williams College alongside his future Fountains of Wayne bandmate Adam Schlesinger. Chris Collingwood’s zodiac sign is Libra. I think it directly led to four straight championships because they certainly did not want to hear me singing ‘Apple Bottom Jeans.’". He lives with his wife in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her dad, she said, had always been supportive, but was also a normal parent who would coach the teams she was on. "I go, 'Yeah, he's got some natural skills, or he wouldn’t be able to do it.' But you really feel separated from that enough that you feel like you're living in Mayberry," he continued. Collinsworth, who has also worked for Showtime, NFL Network and Fox Sports, is married to Holly Bankemper Collinsworth and they have four children. [1], Collingwood graduated from The Hill School. What an unfamiliar concept – and I drive around the deep south, way off season, for our honeymoon. Collinsworth compared to Mayberry, the tiny fake town that The Andy Griffith Show is set in, in a 2002 interview with The Cincinnati Inquirer.