Ronald Dwayne Pitts (born October 14, 1962) is an American sportscaster. He works for Fox Sports on its NFL coverage.
Pitts is one of the network's play-by-play announcers, working alongside former National Football League player Tony Boselli. He also co-hosts Under the Helmet, a weekly E/I program full of NFL-related segments for younger viewers. He also hosted the former Fox Sports Net programs Total Access (whose name was later adopted by NFL 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 series Sliders. He is also mentioned in the 1984 Michael Nesmith movie Repo 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 the Green Bay Packers. From 1986 to 1990, Pitts played 66 games at defensive back, starting six times. He had seven career interceptions.
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 two Super Bowl champion teams, Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II.
In 2008, Pitts was hired to host a new show on the Discovery Channel named Destroyed 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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