The longtime commentator of Play-By-Play, Mike Patrick, died Sunday at the age of 80.
According to ESPN, Patrick’s doctor confirmed that the native of Virginia -Western – who was the voice of the “Sunday night football” of ESPN for 18 seasons – died of natural causes in Fairfax, Virginia.
Patrick has increased from the national importance to ESPN from 1982, and was a coherent presence on football and basketball programs for the network for over 30 years. His latest ESPN call came to the 2017 Liberty Bowl Autozone.
This career included being the advertiser Play-By-Play for the first game of the regular season of the NFL never broadcast on ESPN in 1987, with Joe Thiesmann and Paul Maguire frequently joining him as color commentators over the years. Patrick was going to be the voice of “Sunday Night Football” from 1987 to 2005, as well as more than three decades of male Basketball Championship ACC and the last four female games of the network from 1996 to 2009.
Patrick’s voice was familiar to ESPN viewers because he was the main advertiser for many years of university football and World Series, including the programs “Thursday evening Football” and “Saturday Night Football”.
Mike Patrick career
Patrick first took the air in 1966, working in Somerset, Penn. WVSC radio station. Four years later, he moved to Jacksonville, Florida. The WJXT television channel, where he became a sports director and started calling the world football league matches for Jacksonville Sharks, as well as Basketball of Jacksonville University.
Patrick returned to the north in 1975, taking a position as a weekend journalist and anchor for Washington, Wjla de DC. There, he called the football and basketball games at Maryland University, as well as Washington NFL pre-season matches for the next seven years.
Patrick then joined ESPN in 1982, shortly after the launch of the network, and would stay there until his retirement in 2018. Over the years, he has become best known as the voice of “Sunday Night Football”, calling NFL’s matches for 19 seasons from 1987 to 2005. Patrick’s first call from a university football match for ESPN came in 1985, and he would continue to be the main game for “Thursday evening football “from 1991 to 1997, and in 2006 moved to” College Football Primetime “.
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From 2009 to 17 years old, Patrick was on the microphone for the ESPN and ABC programs of university matches on Saturday afternoon while continuing to work on the College World Series, the Final Four Female and many NFL qualifying matches on ABC. Patrick’s work has also extended into the world of video games, EA Sports hiring it as the voice of the MVP baseball series: NCAA in 2006 and 2007.
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