Legendary ESPN play-by-play game announcer and host Brent Musburger has been named a co-recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award, given by The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF). Musburger’s peer Verne Lundquist is the other recipient. The award is intended to provide national recognition to an individual whose efforts and activities in support of the Foundation and its goals have been local in nature.  It also applies to individuals or entities who have made significant contributions to the game of football either to the manner in which it is played and coached or to the manner in which it is enjoyed by spectators.  The award will be presented at the 54th Annual Awards Dinner on December 6 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

ESPN’s College GameDay Built by The Home Depot received the award in 2006.

Musburger currently serves as the lead voice of college football for ESPN where is calls the Saturday Night Football series on ABC. He has also called the past five Rose Bowl Games and four BCS National Championship matchups on television or radio, including the most recent Tostitos BCS National Championship on ESPN. In addition to his duties with college football, Musburger works a significant schedule of college basketball games for ESPN.

Musburger joined ABC in May 1990 after 15 years as CBS Sports’ primary host and play-by-play commentator. During his time at CBS, his broadcast responsibilities included college football, The NFL Today, the NCAA Final Four, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, the NBA and the Masters.

During his celebrated 40-year career, he has worked nearly every major sporting event, including the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA Finals, the Final Four, the World Cup, the Indianapolis 500, the Masters, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, and the Little League World Series, and he has done it across multiple media platforms for CBS, ABC, ESPN, CBS Radio Network and ESPN Radio. In 2011, he claimed a spot in the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame.

A native of Billings, Mont., Musburger graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism before beginning his career as a sportswriter for the Chicago American. He started his broadcast career in 1968 at WBBM-AM in Chicago as the station’s sports director, later assuming the same title for WBBM-TV. He then moved to KNXT-TV in Los Angeles as the co-anchor of the nightly news.
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