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| Position: | Offensive tackle | ||||||||
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| Born: | (1954-03-10)March 10, 1954 (age 71) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 274 lb (124 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Westhampton Beach (NY) | ||||||||
| College: | Harvard | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1976: 6th round, 161st pick | ||||||||
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Danny Marcellus Jiggetts (born March 10, 1954) is an American formerfootballoffensive lineman. He was selected by theChicago Bears in the1976 NFL draft.
Jiggetts was born inBrooklyn, but grew up onLong Island when his parents moved there soon after he was born.[1]: 1 Excelling in both academics and athletics atWesthampton Beach High School, Jiggetts ranked in the top 10% of his class academically, earning aRotary scholarship for college and was electedclass president each of his four years of high school as well as earning elevenvarsity letters in three different sports. He was extremely popular, noted a high school friend from Quogue, former United States Congressman Michael P. Forbes, who graduated a year earlier in 1971. Jiggetts was named ahigh school All-Americandefensive end, and also won the New York state regional championships in both thediscus andshot put.[1]: 2
Jiggetts was heavily recruited out of high school for football.[2] He signed anational letter of intent to go toOhio State and play for their coachWoody Hayes, but eventually changed his mind and decided to enroll inHarvard instead in order to keep a promise he made to his mother who died four days after his high school graduation.[1]: 2
Playingoffensive tackle for Harvard, Jiggetts was named All-Ivy League three times and All-East twice as well asAll-American by both theAP andUPI during his senior year in 1975.[1]: 2 Named captain of Harvard's 1975 football team,[3] he was not only the firstAfrican American to be honored as such,[1]: 2 but he also helped lead the team to its first undisputedIvy League Championship.[2] Considered to be one of the finest lineman in the history of the league, Jiggetts was named to the Ivy's Silver Anniversary All-Star Team and was inducted into the Harvard Varsity Hall of Fame.[2] After graduating, Jiggetts was drafted in the sixth round of1976 NFL draft by theChicago Bears.[4]
Jiggetts played 98 games as abackup offensive lineman for the Bears from 1976 to 1982.[4] Released by the team during the 1983 preseason, Jiggetts went on to play one season each for theChicago Blitz andSan Antonio Gunslingers in theUSFL[5] before retiring in 1985.[6]
During his playing career, Jiggetts was active in player-management labor relations in both the NFL and USFL. He served as a player representative for the Bears[7] and was the vice-president of theNational Football League Players Association at the time of the1982 strike.[8][9] Jiggetts was also involved in attempts to unionize USFL players as a member of the Blitz.[10]
Jiggetts joinedNFL on CBS as an analyst in 1985. In 1987, 1989–1991, and 1993, he has split play-by-play partners withJames Brown andBrad Nessler.[citation needed]
He co-hosted "Monsters and Money in the Morning" withMike North onCBS 2 Chicago from February 1 to August 27, 2010. He started working with North on their "Monsters of the Midday" radio program in 1992 as part of the launch of Chicago's WSCR sports radio station, known as "The Score," which is now at 670-AM. They co-hosted Monsters of the Midday for eight years. The Monsters and Money show was not considered a news program by station management but was added to the lineup as an attempt to increase its advertising revenue earning potential, its experimental format of combining sports talk by Jiggetts and North with news headlines, weather and discussions of financial matters never really caught on with viewers.[11] He is also asportscaster forNBC Sports Chicago and was the co-host of a daily morning show on the station. He has also worked forCBS andESPN and hosted a highly rated radio show onWSCR in Chicago. In September 2010, he returned toWFLD-TV to anchor sports on Fridays and Saturdays.[citation needed]
Jiggetts currently hosts several shows on NBC Sports Chicago. He was inducted into theSuffolk Sports Hall of Fame on Long Island, New York, in the Football Category with the Class of 1990.[citation needed]
Personally, Jiggetts has a daughter, Lauren, who is a newscaster for the WGN Early Morning News in Chicago.[12]
Jiggetts was working as the vice president of a commercial lending division at a Chicago bank after his career ended in the USFL in 1985.
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