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    Jim Nantz and the Super Bowl: Tales from a broadcasting legend

    Everything, everywhere, all at once. That's pretty much the job description of CBS announcer Jim Nantz, who will call Super Bowl LVIII from Las Vegas with color analyst Tony Romo at his side. Even after retiring from his March Madness duties, Nantz still has a frenetic schedule in which NFL games roll right into the PGA Tour. "People say, 'Are you enjoying being semi-retired?'" said Nantz, 64. ...
    by Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times Feb 06, 2024 7 minutes
    Jim Nantz interviews Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots after the Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 during Super Bowl LIII at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Feb. 3, 2019, in Atlanta.

    Everything, everywhere, all at once.

    That's pretty much the job description of CBS announcer Jim Nantz, who will call Super Bowl LVIII from Las Vegas with color analyst Tony Romo at his side.

    Even after retiring from his March Madness duties, Nantz still has a frenetic schedule in which NFL games roll right into the PGA Tour.

    "People say, 'Are you enjoying being semi-retired?'" said Nantz, 64. "I'm down to like 40 weeks of travel. … It's not like I'm on a beach somewhere."

    He was decidedly not on the beach the day before the AFC championship game in Baltimore, even though millions of viewers surely thought he was. Instead, he was in a cramped trailer beneath M&T Bank Stadium remotely calling the Farmers Insurance Open in La Jolla.

    The tournament was adjusted so the final round was Saturday, ensuring it wouldn't compete with the NFL's conference championship games. And CBS didn't try to hide the fact that Nantz wasn't on site, several times referencing the fact he was in Baltimore.

    Still, in the week since then, Nantz has been asked dozens of times how he possibly could have gotten from

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