Cris Collinsworth learned a hard lesson about the market price of fish at Pike Place Market. pic.twitter.com/hFGCyLT4N0

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) November 24, 2023

Cris Collinsworth is a 64-year-old who, apparently, doesn’t buy much fish or food of any sort by the pound.

Last night, during the 49ers-Seahawks game, the NBC Sunday Night Football color analyst made the revelation that he stopped by a Seattle fish market to buy some fish and have it shipped home when he made a very big financial decision where he bought $800 in fish after thinking he was about to spend $70. …

“I never buy fish. You’re in the market, you say, ‘OK, I’m going to buy some fish, I’m going to take it home for Thanksgiving,’” Collinsworth told play-by-play guy Mike Tirico. “So I go in there and see the thing, this big fish is there and it says $35. I go ‘Well, that’s pretty good, that’s about the same price as at a restaurant, right, $34.99 right. … I come out and I go, ‘I’ll take two.”

[I tuned into the game later and missed this. The rest of the game, Collinsworth and Tirico joked about having salmon for Thanksgiving, and I didn’t know the context. I actually enjoy Collinsworth on football broadcasts, although I know a lot of people don’t, in large part because of his self-deprecating humor. He never takes himself too seriously, and that makes for a fun game in most cases. Anyway, I hope Collinsworth really enjoys his salmon. — Ed]