{"id":325901,"date":"2025-10-07T03:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/325901\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T03:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T03:59:19","slug":"hornets-eric-collins-goes-viral-after-panthers-dolphins-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/325901\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets&#8217; Eric Collins Goes Viral After Panthers-Dolphins Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23829394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/eric-collins.jpg\" alt=\"eric collins\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Jacob Kupferman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tts-pre-loader.gif\" alt=\"Carbonatix Pre-Player Loader\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; margin-left: 20px;\">Audio By Carbonatix<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Hornets announcer Eric Collins made his NFL announcing debut on Sunday while calling the Carolina Panthers vs. Miami Dolphins game and became an instant social media star with his electric broadcasting style.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Collins, a graduate of St. Lawrence University and Syracuse University\u2019s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, first became the play-by-play announcer for the <a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/tag\/charlotte-hornets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> in 2015 and has been on the call for the lowly <a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/tag\/nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBA<\/a> franchise ever since.<\/p>\n<p>While Collins is well-known among Charlotte-area sports fans, his call of the first Week 5 matchup between the Miami Dolphins and Carolina Panthers on Fox represented the first time he got such national attention, and the veteran broadcaster absolutely seized on his moment as he became an instant viral star on social media.<\/p>\n<p>NFL fans calling for Eric Collins to become permanent announcer after electric call of Panthers vs. Dolphins<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Announcer Eric Collins was ELECTRIC on the call for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiDolphins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@MiamiDolphins<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Panthers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Panthers<\/a> \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hsCzZxtsdW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/hsCzZxtsdW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1974955524719264145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Eric Collins NFL announcing debut <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dO2peFEYBG\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dO2peFEYBG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan (@Baltlol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Baltlol\/status\/1974925958672195792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching people discover Eric Collins in real time has been a joy today,\u201d a Hornets beat writer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OwenOConnorNBA\/status\/1974931141401751984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NFL would be idiotic to not include Eric Collins in the booth from here on out,\u201d another <a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/tag\/nfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NFL<\/a> fan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPPfanfromtheD\/status\/1975000154597130565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">claimed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care what anyone says. Eric Collins is crushing it in Carolina-Miami. He is making an expired ham sandwich feel like a Michelin star experience,\u201d a third succinctly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConorOrr\/status\/1974925270462132581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">summarized<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Charlotte Hornets announcer Eric Collins is calling the Panthers-Dolphins game on FOX and it has been electric. \ud83d\ude02<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T5hgG1rhkM\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/T5hgG1rhkM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1974924883001065660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8ANNOUNCER OF THE YEAR\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Hornets announcer Eric Collins called the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dolphins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Dolphins<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Panthers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Panthers<\/a> game today and it was absolutely ELECTRIC.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Collins called every play like it was the Super Bowl and we need to hear him every week now.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/llDJgvsDGA\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/llDJgvsDGA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLFootball (@_MLFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_MLFootball\/status\/1974941979684565478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Collins proved to be a bit of a good luck charm for the Panthers, as they were able to outlast the Dolphins by a score of 27-24 to improve their record on the season to 2-3.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Kupferman\/Getty Images Audio By Carbonatix Charlotte Hornets announcer Eric Collins made his NFL announcing debut on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,20670,684,473,3878,3726,685,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-325901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-charlotte","11":"tag-charlotte-hornets","12":"tag-charlottehornets","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-hornets","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115330886195224855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325901","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=325901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}