Godspeed Dick Enberg

[Toddzilla]

Wife is reporting that Dick Enberg passed away today from a heart attack. Absolutely positively one of the greatest of all time.

One of a handful of announcers that I remember vividly from my childhood, and I'm no young man, either. As distinctive a voice as there ever was in broadcasting, you could just tell without hearing any stories that he was likely the nicest man who ever lived. Oh, my.

[Toddzilla]

Now posted in his hometown paper...

Dick Enberg, broadcast legend, dies at 82 - The San Diego Union-Tribune (http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/sd-sp-dick-enberg-death-obit-20171221-story.html)

[Toddzilla]

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[MrBug708]

One of the legends

[Chief Rum]

Wonderful announcer. Obvious ones for me like Scully and Hearn or Al Michaels always come up for me first when I think of announcers, which underscores to me how perfectly understated and ever present Enberg was. He wasn't a guy you put all these accolades on like those others. He was just always consistently perfect and unassuming. I'll miss hearing his voice on the TV.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Sigh.

Rest in peace.

[BYU 14]

This is a sad one, a voice that I remember from my earliest days following sports. One of the legends, RIP.

[Dodgerchick]

This is a sad one, a voice that I remember from my earliest days following sports. One of the legends, RIP.

Same here. Ugh, this one hurts
RIP

[digamma]

Bummed me out too. In part because I started thinking about how differently my kids will hear the game than I did. Some of my earliest memories are pretending to be Howard Cosell, the Carays, Vin Scully, and in Georgia Munson and Ciraldo. I don't think that happens today. RIP to Enberg and an era.

[Suicane75]

Could listen to him read the phonebook. One of those announcers who made every game he did special just by his voice alone. But hey, we still have Joe Buck.