Bob Trumpy, a former National Football League player and broadcaster and member of the Springfield Sports Hall of Fame, died Sunday at age 80. A statement from the Cincinnati Bengals says he died peacefully surrounded by family.
Trumpy was an original member of the Cincinnati Bengals, playing for the team from 1968 as a 12th-round draft pick out of the University of Utah through 1977. He grew up in Tremont and attended Springfield High School for three years.
Trumpy served as a color analyst for NBC Sports. He called four Super Bowls, three Olympic Games and three Ryder Cups. In 2014, he was presented the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award by the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was one of the first inductees into the Springfield Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.
