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Old 12-21-2017, 11:58 PM   #1
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Godspeed Dick Enberg

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.


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Old 12-22-2017, 12:02 AM   #2
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Now posted in his hometown paper...

Dick Enberg, broadcast legend, dies at 82 - The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Old 12-22-2017, 12:03 AM   #3
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Old 12-22-2017, 12:32 AM   #4
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One of the legends
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Old 12-22-2017, 01:12 AM   #5
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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.
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Old 12-22-2017, 01:29 AM   #6
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Sigh.

Rest in peace.
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Old 12-22-2017, 07:52 AM   #7
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This is a sad one, a voice that I remember from my earliest days following sports. One of the legends, RIP.
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Old 12-22-2017, 08:27 AM   #8
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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
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Old 12-22-2017, 09:53 AM   #9
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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.
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Old 12-22-2017, 12:23 PM   #10
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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.
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