The statement added that Gamble “passed away peacefully surrounded by much love after a courageous battle with cancer.”
“Greg handled his illness as one would expect, with patience, grace and positivity.”
Originally from New Orleans, Gamble grew up in Chicago and first joined CBS in 1989 after spending years working New York Knicks basketball and Yankees baseball games for the Madison Square Garden Network.
However, his start came in the early 1970s, when an executive at a local NBC affiliate in Chicago asked him to broadcast a high school basketball game every weekend.
“He said, ‘I have this idea and I want you to take it and run with it,’” Gamble recalled in a 2021 interview. “We introduced our audience to a lot of guys who became famous.”
Jim Nantz, a CBS Sports veteran and another prominent sportscaster, referred to Gamble as “broadcast royalty.”
“He was as selfless a broadcaster as anyone in the industry has ever known,” he said. “Our careers intersected for nearly 35 years, and he was a consummate colleague and friend.”
““He was truly one of the greats,” Leslie Visser, another long-time colleague, told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. He was very intelligent and everyone loved working with him.”
“Greg had an innate dignity that he brought to the table,” she added.
At CBS Sports, Gamble had two stints as host of the popular pre-game, halftime and post-game “NFL Today” show, including three Super Bowls in 1992, 2013 and 2016.
Gamble also spent four years at NBC Sports, where he hosted the “NFL on NBC” show and several other Super Bowl pregame shows.
He briefly stepped away from NFL coverage in 2003, before returning in 2005 and continuing in that role until 2022.
The longtime sports broadcaster also served as a prime-time anchor for CBS Sports during the 1994 Winter Olympics, as well as a co-anchor during the weekday broadcast of the 1992 Winter Games.
Additionally, he was a play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball and became a fixture on college football broadcasts.
In March of this year, he missed his first National Collegiate Athletic Association — or NCAA — basketball tournament since 1997 due to unspecified health issues.
He signed an extension with CBS in 2023 that allows him to return to college basketball coverage while stepping away from his work covering the NFL.
Gamble is survived by his wife, Marcy, his daughter, Michelle, and his younger brother, Bryant, who is also a prominent broadcaster and former host of the “Today” show.
