{"id":314589,"date":"2025-10-01T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/314589\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:45:10","slug":"sports-illustrated-eric-collins-celebrated-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/314589\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Illustrated – Eric Collins, Celebrated Hornets\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Panthers fans tune into their team’s clash with the Dolphins Sunday, they will in all likelihood hear a familiar voice.<\/p>\n

Hornets play-by-play broadcaster Eric Collins will make his NFL debut when he calls the game along with ex-Broncos and Washington linebacker Mark Schlereth, he said Tuesday via Shane Connuck of the Charlotte Observer. <\/p>\n

Collins, 56, is a favorite of basketball fans in the Carolinas and beyond for his quirky, excitable style (for instance, a 13-minute supercut<\/a> of his best calls has nearly 64,000 views on YouTube). He is frequently deployed on Fox’s college football coverage, where he has won a degree of viral fame<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a bucket list thing,\u201d Collins said via Connuck. \u201cA perfect situation for me. I\u2019m excited to sleep in my own bed, not in a hotel, and I won\u2019t walk there, but I may walk home. I could become the only NFL announcer who\u2019s ever walked back home.”<\/p>\n

Charlotte, for which Collins has called games since the 2016 season, is scheduled to open 2026 against the Nets on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n

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This article was originally published on www.si.com as Eric Collins, Celebrated Hornets Broadcaster, to Make NFL Debut for Fox Sunday<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Panthers fans tune into their team’s clash with the Dolphins Sunday, they will in all likelihood hear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,4500,684,473,3878,6807,6811,685,6805,6,67,6808,6806,6809,6810,447],"class_list":{"0":"post-314589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-charlotte","11":"tag-charlotte-hornets","12":"tag-charlottehornets","13":"tag-daily-news","14":"tag-global-news","15":"tag-hornets","16":"tag-inkl","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-news-app","20":"tag-news-headlines","21":"tag-news-today","22":"tag-today-news","23":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115298036880894257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}