- Ron Pitts
NFL player
DateOfBirth=Birth date and age|1962|10|14|mf=y
Birthplace=Detroit, MI
Position=Defensive back
College=UCLA
DraftedYear=1985
DraftedRound=7 / Pick 169
DatabaseFootball=PITTSRON01
years=1986-1987
1988-1990
teams=Buffalo Bills Green Bay Packers Ronald Dwayne Pitts (born
October 14 ,1962 ) is an Americansportscaster . He works forFox Sports on its NFL coverage.Pitts is one of the network's
play-by-play announcer s, working alongside formerNational Football League playerTony Boselli . He also co-hosts "Under the Helmet", a weeklyE/I program full of NFL-related segments for younger viewers. He also hosted the formerFox Sports Net programs "Total Access" (whose name was later adopted byNFL Network for its own newscast) and "Hardcore Football". Pitts also had a cameo as a sports commentator in the film "Hot Shots! Part Deux ". He also appears as an alternate version of himself during the Eggheads episode of the American TV seriesSliders . He is also mentioned in the 1984Michael Nesmith movieRepo Man , in a college football radio broadcast heard in the background as the robbers bungle their way out of a store and just before the main characters walk in.Pitts began broadcasting after a brief playing career in which he played for the
Buffalo Bills and theGreen Bay Packers . From 1986 to 1990, Pitts played 66 games atdefensive back , starting six times. He had seven careerinterceptions .Pitts' voice was featured as an announcer in Microsoft's NFL Fever, a Football video game for the original Xbox.
Pitts' father,
Elijah Pitts , also played for the Packers and was part of twoSuper Bowl champion teams,Super Bowl I andSuper Bowl II .In 2008, Pitts was hired to host a new show on the
Discovery Channel namedDestroyed in Seconds . The show features video clips of various disasters, both natural and man-made.References
*"The
ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia". New York: Sterling, 2006
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