Sean Salisbury
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| Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||
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| Born: | March 9, 1963 Long Beach, California | ||||||||
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| High school: | Escondido (CA) Orange Glen | ||||||||
| College: | Southern California | ||||||||
| Undrafted: | 1987 | ||||||||
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| * Offseason and/or practice squad member only | |||||||||
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Richard Sean Salisbury (born March 9, 1963) is an American football analyst, former NFL and CFL quarterback, and actor. He is currently the host of The Sean Salisbury Show on SB Nation Radio.[1]
Early life
Salisbury attended Orange Glen High School in Escondido, California. During Salisbury's senior year at Orange Glen High School, he was a highly recruited quarterback,[2] choosing USC over UCLA, BYU, Stanford, Notre Dame, Cal, Arizona, and Arizona State.
Salisbury averaged 26.5 points per game his senior year and was a high school All-American basketball player. UCLA and USC both offered Salisbury basketball scholarships. Salisbury has three children, Dylan, Dodge, and Shea.[3]
Professional career
During his ten-year career, Salisbury was a member of the Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts, Minnesota Vikings, San Diego Chargers and Houston Oilers as well as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. In 1988, Salisbury led the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to a Grey Cup championship over Matt Dunigan and the BC Lions.
Broadcaster
After getting his start on the Comedy Central show BattleBots, Salisbury went on to become an NFL analyst on ESPN, appearing on SportsCenter and NFL Live.
In 2004, Salisbury was offered a job with the Arizona Cardinals by his former coach and fellow co-worker at ESPN, Dennis Green, to become their new quarterbacks coach. Salisbury pondered for weeks, but eventually declined and stayed on with ESPN.
Salisbury was hired as a consultant for the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard. On the set, Salisbury taught Adam Sandler proper quarterback mechanics, cadences, and footwork. Sandler later offered Salisbury a role in the 2006 film, The Benchwarmers.
On May 9, 2006, Salisbury began broadcasting on ESPN Radio 1000, Chicago with Steve Rosenbloom. He also did guest spots on the ESPN Classic comedy program Cheap Seats, where he provided his signature breakdowns of the action in a more comedic manner. He has covered for Mike Golic on Mike and Mike in the Morning.
In 2007, Salisbury's No. 12 football jersey was retired at his alma mater, Orange Glen High School, an honor no other person in school history has ever received.[4] "I can't believe I'm having my number retired like John Elway, Marcus Allen, Larry Bird or Magic Johnson," Salisbury said. "In my own little world, I will always cherish being the first at my high school to be honored like this."
After ESPN, Salisbury worked briefly for OPENSports.com and KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan, the CBS Radio affiliate in Dallas.
On September 25, 2009, Salisbury provided the color commentary for the Lingerie Football League (LFL) presentation of Friday Night Football. Broadcast on WBFS-TV and KDOC-TV; and streamed online at lflus.com. The Dallas Desire defeated the Denver Dream
On October 20, 2010, it was announced Salisbury would host a pilot for a sports comedy talk show called Inside Sports: News You Can Almost Trust. The show aired on Versus in January. Producer Mark McClure called the show "ESPN meets Comedy Central's Daily Show with some SNL skits, too. Sean will be our Jon Stewart." [5] After the pilot aired the show was retooled as a more serious Inside Sports Unleashed, which began taping on May 12, 2011.[6]
On September 9, 2013, Salisbury became part of the Yahoo! Sports Radio network lineup as co-host of “The War Room” with John Granato airing from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm ET daily.[7]
He has been the host of The Sean Salisbury Show on beIN Sports since its debut on April 17, 2017.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Sean Salisbury Show Debuts Today on beIN Sports," Barrett Sports Media, Monday, April 17, 2017.
- ^ "February 27, 2007". Rosebowlhistory.org. Retrieved 2010-09-23.
- ^ Scott Engel, ESPN.com February 27, 2007
- ^ "TERRY MONAHAN North County Times March 5, 2007". Nctimes.com. 2007-03-06. Retrieved 2010-09-23.
- ^ Hiestand, Michael (2010-10-20). "Weak NFL offering tops Yanks-Rangers in ALCS". USA Today.
- ^ "Inside Sports Unleashed". insidesportstvshow.com. 2011-04-30. Archived from the original on 2011-05-09. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
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External links
- Career statistics from NFL.com · ESPN · Pro Football Reference
- American football quarterbacks
- National Football League announcers
- Players of American football from California
- 1963 births
- Living people
- American players of Canadian football
- Canadian football quarterbacks
- Grey Cup champions
- Indianapolis Colts players
- Minnesota Vikings players
- Sportspeople from Long Beach, California
- Sportspeople from Escondido, California
- People from Valley Center, California
- San Diego Chargers players
- USC Trojans football players
- Winnipeg Blue Bombers players