Background
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Pitts is the son of Elijah Pitts, a running back with Vince Lombardi"s Green Bay Packers and later a longtime assistant coach in the NFL.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Pitts is the son of Elijah Pitts, a running back with Vince Lombardi"s Green Bay Packers and later a longtime assistant coach in the NFL.
The family lived in southern California in the mid-1970s and moved to the Buffalo area in 1978, where he played football at Orchard Park High School and graduated in 1981.
He played cornerback in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills and Green Bay Packers, and played college football at University of California, Los Los Angeles
Pitts has worked as a sportscaster and entertainment reporter, and currently works for Columbia Broadcasting System Sports Network on its college football coverage as a fill-in play-by-play announcer, and as a co-host for the syndicated news magazine Oklahoma!television
Pitts played college football back in southern California at University of California, Los Angeles under head coach Terry Donahue. Pitts was selected in the seventh round of the 1985 NFL draft and had a brief playing career in which he played for the Buffalo Bills and the Green Bay Packers. Injured in his first mini-camp, he missed the 1985 season.
From 1986 to 1990, Pitts played 66 games at defensive back, starting six times.
He had seven career interceptions. One of Pitts"s interceptions came off of San Francisco 49ers hall of famer Jerry Rice.
In December 1988, he returned a punt for a touchdown against the Phoenix Cardinals. Pitts worked for Fox Sports" play-by-play announcers for 18 years doing play-by-play for the NFL on FOX but left after the 2012 season.
He also co-hosted Under the Helmet (a weekly East/I program full of NFL-related segments for younger viewers) and former Fox Sports Net programs Total Access (whose name was later adopted by NFL Network for its own newscast) and Hardcore Football.
Earlier in his broadcasting career Pitts worked as a college football analyst for American Broadcasting Company Sports and a correspondent for Black Entertainment Television. In 2014, Pitts joined Columbia Broadcasting System Sports Network as a play-by-play announcer doing a limited number of games
Acting career
Pitts also had a cameo as a sports commentator in the film Hot Shots! Participant Deux. He also appears as an alternate version of himself during the "Eggheads" episode of the American television series Sliders.
He is also mentioned in the 1984 Michael Nesmith movie Repo Manitoba, in a college football radio broadcast heard in the background as the robbers bungle their way out of a store and just before the main characters walk in.
Pitts" voice was featured as an announcer in Microsoft"s NFL Fever, a football video game for the original Xbox. In 2008, Pitts was hired to host a new show on the Discovery Channel named Destroyed In Seconds.
The show features video clips of disasters, accidents, and other destructive events, both natural and man-made.