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Irv Cross, the groundbreaking analyst on CBS’ ‘The NFL Today’ by way of Northwestern and Hammond, Ind., dies at 81

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For Irv Cross, the eighth of 15 children in an impoverished family in Hammond, Ind., football was a lifeline, a gateway to a Northwestern degree, a pro career and the first full-time sports analyst job on network television for a Black man.


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