leaving the field in 2004, Kennedy's degree in speech communications prepared him to accept a position with the NFL Network as one of the hosts of NFL Total Access. In 2005, his attempted comeback with the Dallas Cowboys failed, due to his inability to pass the team physical. Arena Football League In 2007, 2008, and 2010, he played for the Tampa Bay Storm in the Arena Football League. Broadcasting Kennedy currently works for Fox Sports Radio as show co-host. He is also a co-host on Las Vegas radio station Raider Nation Radio 920 AM. He has called Pac-12 college football games as the color analyst and as a track reporter during NASCAR races. In 2013, he joined the Oakland Raiders radio broadcast team at Compass Media Networks; he was promoted to color commentator in 2018, partnered with play-by-play announcer Brent Musburger. On Saturday morning, April 17th, 2021 Kennedy announced that he would go on hiatus from his Fox Sports Radio assignment. Other appearances Kennedy made an appearance on Arliss in 2000 (Episode: 504: "Comings and Goings"), and appeared in Two and a Half Men in 2005, ("Principal Gallagher's Lesbian Lover"). He appears as himself in the 2006 film The Marine. Personal life His son, Zach Banner, was born in December 1993, and is an offensive tackle. While Banner is his biological son, he was raised by Ron Banner, who married his son's mother and legally adopted him. Banner had no idea who Lincoln Kennedy was, or that he was his real father, until he was in seventh grade. Once, not long after the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., Kennedy made the remark on ESPN's SportsCenter that, "My name's Lincoln Kennedy, I ain't got a chance," in reference to the assassination of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Kennedy held the all-time record on the "Wall of Fame" at Seattle eatery Shultzy's Sausage before the restaurant changed locations and did away with the Wall. In his record-setting effort, he consumed 11 of the restaurant's signature link sausages on French rolls and a large Coca-Cola within one hour. See also List of Arena Football League and National Football League players References External links Profile at ArenaFan 1971 births Living people All-American college football players American Conference Pro Bowl players American football offensive tackles Atlanta Falcons players College football announcers National Football League announcers Las Vegas Raiders announcers Oakland Raiders announcers