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Date of Birth

10 May 1955, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

Birth Name

Christopher James Berman

Nickname

Boomer
The Swami

Height

6' (1.83 m)

Spouse

Kathy Alexinski

(23 July 1983 - present) 2 children

Trade Mark

Gives nicknames to almost all sports athletes he talks about.

Home run call. "Back, back, back, back. Gone."

Touchdown call: "He-could-go-all-the-way!"

Football running call: "Whoop!"

Trivia

Attended Brown University

Inducted into the Brown University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991. He was ranked number 90 on The Sporting News' 1995 Top 100 Most Powerful People in Sports.

Two children: Meredith (b. 1986) and Douglas (b. 1987).

Is a Buffalo Bills fan and is best friends with ex QB Jim Kelly.

His trademark nicknames actually started by accident. According to him, he and his buddies used to drink what they called "Frank Tanana Daquiris", and one day on camera, when he mentioned Frank Tanana, he ended up saying Frank Tanana Daquiri without even thinking about it. This caused the technical director to shout "What?!" in his ear, and one of the camera men starting laughing so hard he was actually shaking the camera up and down.

Personal Quotes

On the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, "This is the franchise that invented losing."

"Nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills"

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