NFL Redzone host Scott Hanson suffers injury while celebrating USA Olympic medal during his NBC broadcast venture

NFL Redzone host Scott Hanson revealed an injury that occurred when he celebrated a USA Olympic medal.

The 53-year-old Hanson injured himself while he was anchoring the Gold Zone for NBC’s Peacock streaming platform for the Paris Olympics .

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Hanson shared that his left hand was bloodied while in celebration of a Team USA medal during the broadcast.

“I was pounding the desk on Gold Zone when Team USA was winning a medal. I’m designated ‘likely’ to return,” he wrote on X , along with a photo of a pinkie with blood on it.

There were also papers on Hanson’s desk that had blood stains on it.

He suffered the injury when United States men’s swimmer Luke Hobson took home the bronze medal in the 200-meter freestyle.

Hanson has been a host of NFL RedZone, a whip-around highlights show of the league’s games, since 2009.

Before the start of the Paris Olympics, he opened up on how he’ll use the energy he can bring to the telecast.

“I hope to deliver those same dopamine hits that we give to our ‘RedZone’ audience to the ‘Gold Zone’ audience,” Hanson said in an interview with Indiewire .

“If I’m going from from gymnastics to swimming , and doing whip-around coverage at ‘Gold Zone,’ it’s the same voice that you hear every NFL Sunday on ‘RedZone.’

“Hopefully it meshes well with with this particular Olympic audience.”

Hanson then admitted that providing help with Olympics coverage shows his knack for trying out new things.

“There must have been some carnival act in my family tree, like I have some type of a desire to be on a high wire on live TV and challenge myself in multitasking in new and exciting ways,” he told the outlet.

“The Olympics is all of that, and then some.”

Hanson isn’t the only NBC broadcaster who has hurt himself during Olympics coverage.

Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost has covered surfing for the network.

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During a broadcast, the 42-year-old revealed his injured toes after dragging them against a coral reef.

Jost shared a photo of his bandaged and bloodied feet in two posts on Instagram .

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While you may feel very far from the 2024 Paris Olympics , you can stay up-to-date with all of the action right from the comfort of your sofa.

You can watch on:

• Peacock
• Sling
• Hulu
• Fubo

Or if you’re not able to watch, you can follow along with The Sun’s live blog for the latest updates from France.

He joked that he’s “been to the Olympic medical tent more than any of the athletes.”

“This might ruin my WikiFeet score but I just arrived in Tahiti for the surfing Olympics and the reef was excited to greet me,” Jost wrote in a post last Friday.