Andrea Kremer

Andrea Kremer (born February 25, 1959) is a multi-Emmy Award-winning American television sports journalist.

She previously called Thursday Night Football games for Amazon Prime Video making sports history, along with Hannah Storm, by becoming the first all-women booth to call any major men's team sport, not just football.

Kremer is also Chief Correspondent for the NFL Network and previously led the network's coverage and in-depth reporting on health and safety.

Her other current roles include correspondent for HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel as well as co-host of We Need To Talk, the first ever all-female nationally televised weekly sports show on CBS.

Kremer was born February 25, 1959, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She graduated from Friends Select School in Pennsylvania and then became a student at the University of Pennsylvania.

While at the University of Pennsylvania, Kremer became a member of the sorority Phi Sigma Sigma and pursued her passion for ballet, performing with the Philadelphia Civic Ballet Company.

Kremer began her career in 1982 as the sports editor of the Main Line Chronicle in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, the state's largest weekly newspaper.

Upon completing a story on NFL Films, the television production arm of the National Football League, Kremer's mother urged her to apply for a position.

She left the Chronicle in 1984 to join NFL Films as its first female producer.

Her first assignment was working on the HBO program Inside the NFL.

She received an Emmy Award nomination in 1986 for writing and editing the NFL Films special "Autumn Ritual."

While at NFL Films, she served as contributing reporter to the Philadelphia Eagles Pre-Game Show on WIP-AM

Kremer worked until 1989 as a producer, director, and on-air personality for This is the NFL.

She produced a "The All-Pro Dream Team," "All the Best", and "Gift of Grab".

In 1989, she became ESPN's first female correspondent.

She served as their Chicago-based correspondent, then moved to Los Angeles to work as correspondent in 1994.

At ESPN, she worked on SportsCenter, Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, and Outside the Lines, in addition to pieces on ESPN.com, ESPN Radio, and ESPNEWS.

She moderated roundtable discussion and conducted interviews as a substitute host for Up Close. Many of her stories addressed topics such as domestic violence, sexual assault, and drug abuse.

Kremer left ESPN in 2006 to become a sideline reporter for NBC Sunday Night Football and to contribute to the studio program Football Night in America.

Kremer has been a correspondent for HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel since 2007, having contributed a host of critically acclaimed profiles and features to the Emmy Award-winning newsmagazine show.

She served as the sideline reporter for Super Bowl XLIII in February 2009.

She was a reporter on NBC's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

During her time in Beijing, she reported on swimming, diving, and Michael Phelps's pursuit of eight gold medals.

In 2010, she concentrated her 2010 Winter Olympics coverage on speed skating in Vancouver.

Until the 2011 season, she worked as a sideline reporter for NBC on the network's coverage of Sunday Night Football.

In 2011, she left Sunday Night Football and was replaced by Michele Tafoya.

She has covered more than 25 Super Bowls, the NBA Finals and All-Star Game, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game and League Championship Series, college football bowl games, NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs and Finals, the NCAA men's basketball tournament, U.S Olympic basketball trials, 2012 U.S. Olympic swimming trials, and the PGA Championship.

During the swimming events of the 2012 Olympics, she reported on the competition between Phelps and Ryan Lochte and on Phelps becoming the most decorated Olympian of all time.

In 2012, Kremer joined NFL Network as a Chief Correspondent and led the network's coverage and in-depth reporting on health and safety.

She reported on defensive back Darrelle Revis return from an ACL injury.

She interviewed Johnny Jolly during his prison sentence for drug abuse charges and return to the field with the Green Bay Packers.

She also did a story on Laurent Robinson's concussion.

In 2014, Kremer joined the team of We Need to Talk, the first all-female nationally televised weekly sports show.

Airing in prime time, the weekly show featured a rotating group of female panelists discussing all topics and news in sports.

Her 2016 investigation into sexual assault in Bikram Yoga, which was named as one of the ten most shocking stories of the year by Metro.

During her time at Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, she interviewed Robert Kraft, Kobe Bryant, Urban Meyer, Pete Carroll, Phil Jackson, Lane Kiffin, Barrett Robbins, DeMaurice Smith, Bill Parcells, Joakim Noah, Jim Harbaugh, and John Harbaugh.

Kremer became a regular contributor to NFL Magazine with former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason.

The magazine folded after four issues.

In 2018, Kremer received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame.