Brent Woody Musburger became one of the most iconic voices in sports broadcasting over nearly five decades, turning every game he called into a major event with his signature gravitas and storytelling ability, making audiences feel they were witnessing history. Born on May 26, 1939, in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Billings, Montana. As a child, Musburger sold programs at Billings Mustangs games and played Little League baseball with future major league pitcher Dave McNally. After studying at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a brief stint as an umpire in the low minor leagues in the Class D Midwest League in the 1959 season, Musburger began his sports journalism career at the now-defunct Chicago American newspaper.

In 1968, Musburger joined CBS, starting as a sports anchor on WBBM radio and television before CBS Sports hired him full-time in 1973. By 1975, he became the first host of The NFL Today, a groundbreaking Sunday pregame show that consistently ranked first in ratings among NFL studio programs on television. His signature phrase "You are looking live..." became synonymous with weekend sports broadcasts, and his stylized pronunciation of "CBS" ("C.B. eeezz") created another memorable trademark. Musburger is credited with coining the phrase "March Madness" to describe the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament during coverage of the Final Four.

His most legendary broadcasts captured sports history at its most dramatic moments. On November 23, 1984, he called Doug Flutie's miraculous Hail Mary touchdown pass to Gerard Phelan that defeated defending national champion Miami 47-45 in the Orange Bowl, forever known as the "Hail Flutie." In October 1995, while working for ABC, Musburger delivered an electrifying call when Edgar Martinez's double in the eleventh inning drove in Ken Griffey Jr. with the winning run and sent the Seattle Mariners to their first championship series: "The Mariners win! The Mariners win!" He also provided the soundtrack for the 1988 Miami-Notre Dame showdown known as "Catholics vs. Convicts" and the triple-overtime thriller between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns in the 1976 NBA Finals.

Fired by CBS during the 1990 Final Four, Musburger quickly joined ABC Sports and ESPN, where he called seven BCS national championship games, succeeded Keith Jackson as the Rose Bowl announcer in 2007 and became the lead voice of the SEC Network for football and basketball in 2014. He left ESPN in January 2017.