“Nothing about this position is easy, but I am privileged and very excited to be here.”Īllen got his start announcing races at Eagle Raceway in Eagle, Nebraska after getting a degree in speech communications.
And I just happened to be hanging around, so I did it.”Īs the then-reigning back-to-back Big Eight (now Big 12) Conference decathlon champion for the Cornhuskers, as Allen was in 19, why wouldn’t you be hanging around the women’s gymnastics team? If charisma was a sport, he’d still be leading the league.Īllen’s affable, smooth, confident tone on the air transitions just as easily outside of the booth to the confines of the NBC Sports tent where we talked about his job as the voice of NBC Sports’ rejuvenated NASCAR franchise.
“The guy who was supposed to do it didn’t show up. “The first event I ever announced was a women’s gymnastics meet at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln,” said Rick Allen, lead announcer for NASCAR on NBC. Here’s that one time Rick Allen photobombed a perfectly good photo of me and Jeff Burton.
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