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Princeton University Athletics
Ross Tucker Named To Princeton Football Radio Broadcast Team
September 05, 2007 | Football
Ross Tucker hoped to spend at least one day in the NFL after graduating from Princeton. Instead, he stayed for seven years.
Now that his professional football career is over, Tucker is coming back to his college roots.
Tucker, an offensive lineman who spent time with five NFL teams, will be the color commentator for Princeton football on WPRB FM 103.3 beginning with the season opener against Lehigh September 15. Tucker joins longtime Princeton play-by-play man Ed Benkin as the Tiger broadcast team.
“I'm certainly excited about the opportunity to start the next phase of my life,” says Tucker. “I can't see any better way to do it than doing Princeton games on the radio. I've been interested in doing something like this for a long time. When one door closes, another opens. This is a way for me to stay in touch with my passion and do it in a way that's near and dear to my heart.”
Tucker, from Wyomissing, Pa., was a defensive lineman as a freshman for the Tigers in the 1997 season. He switched to offense after that and was a fixture on the line for his final three years, the last of which was Roger Hughes' first as Tiger head coach.
Undrafted out of Princeton, Tucker was hoping for merely a chance to spend a summer at an NFL camp, and the Redskins gave him that chance when he was invited in as a free agent. Despite not being expected to make the roster, Tucker managed to earn a roster spot for the 2001 season and get his first significant playing time the following year.
He was picked up by Dallas after Washington released him, and he became a starter with the Cowboys shortly thereafter. He was on the field when Emmitt Smith became the NFL's all-time leading rusher.
He would go on to start 24 games with the Cowboys and Buffalo Bills. After that, he had stops with New England and Cleveland before ending up back with the Redskins for this preseason. He was placed on injured reserve with a neck injury in the preseason, and doctors have told him not to play football again. He chronicled the end of his career in a recent piece in Peter King's column on Sports Illustrated's Website.
“I'm pretty sure I'm the only 28-year-old Princeton grad who's been fired five times already,” Tucker said in King's column.
Now that his professional football career is over, Tucker is coming back to his college roots.
Tucker, an offensive lineman who spent time with five NFL teams, will be the color commentator for Princeton football on WPRB FM 103.3 beginning with the season opener against Lehigh September 15. Tucker joins longtime Princeton play-by-play man Ed Benkin as the Tiger broadcast team.
“I'm certainly excited about the opportunity to start the next phase of my life,” says Tucker. “I can't see any better way to do it than doing Princeton games on the radio. I've been interested in doing something like this for a long time. When one door closes, another opens. This is a way for me to stay in touch with my passion and do it in a way that's near and dear to my heart.”
Tucker, from Wyomissing, Pa., was a defensive lineman as a freshman for the Tigers in the 1997 season. He switched to offense after that and was a fixture on the line for his final three years, the last of which was Roger Hughes' first as Tiger head coach.
Undrafted out of Princeton, Tucker was hoping for merely a chance to spend a summer at an NFL camp, and the Redskins gave him that chance when he was invited in as a free agent. Despite not being expected to make the roster, Tucker managed to earn a roster spot for the 2001 season and get his first significant playing time the following year.
He was picked up by Dallas after Washington released him, and he became a starter with the Cowboys shortly thereafter. He was on the field when Emmitt Smith became the NFL's all-time leading rusher.
He would go on to start 24 games with the Cowboys and Buffalo Bills. After that, he had stops with New England and Cleveland before ending up back with the Redskins for this preseason. He was placed on injured reserve with a neck injury in the preseason, and doctors have told him not to play football again. He chronicled the end of his career in a recent piece in Peter King's column on Sports Illustrated's Website.
“I'm pretty sure I'm the only 28-year-old Princeton grad who's been fired five times already,” Tucker said in King's column.
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