Dick Enberg, 1935-2017

Definitely  one of the voices of my youth. Of course in those days the Packers were so bad, if you wanted to watch some exciting football, Air Coryell was always fun, and often with Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen on the call. 

Music City posted:

Definitely  one of the voices of my youth. Of course in those days the Packers were so bad, if you wanted to watch some exciting football, Air Coryell was always fun, and often with Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen on the call. 

Yep during those dark years I would hope there was a good game in the later in the day and Enberg and Olsen were calling the game.  Definitely one of the voices of my youth.  RIP Mr. Enberg.

I believe Dick Enberg the voice of the "NFL Talking Football" toy?  I had that toy, and I would play with it for hours.

RIP Dick Enberg

I do think it was him calling SB32 and that sour memory is forever burned into my brain.

To the sky sweet prince! 

Dick Enberg announcing a Charger / Raider game in the 80's.

Friggin awesome.....RIP Dick

Dick and Merlin.

DH13 posted:

I do think it was him calling SB32 and that sour memory is forever burned into my brain.

What is this SB32 you are speaking of?

Another part of my childhood gone.....such a soothing, fatherly voice. He hosted a game show called "Sports Challenge" in the mid 70's which was so cool at the time because you could see and hear the biggest super-stars in a fun casual setting.

Music City posted:

Definitely  one of the voices of my youth. Of course in those days the Packers were so bad, if you wanted to watch some exciting football, Air Coryell was always fun, and often with Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen on the call. 

We must be almost the same age.  Back in 1979 when the Packers were really bad, I jumped on the San Diego Chargers bandwagon with Dan Fouts, John Jefferson, etc.  Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen seemed to be the broadcast team for those guys every week so I also got very familiar with them.  They were just an excellent announcing duo and seemed to be perfect for announcing those really fun to watch Chargers teams. 

RIP Mr. Enberg. 

That is kind of funny about jumping on a bandwagon.  In the late 70's when the Packers were horrible all the kids at school jumped on a bandwagon (even though we all rooted for the Packers but were embarrassed to say it).  I jumped on the Raiders bandwagon big time.  And I think Enberg was doing a ton of their games then if I remember right. 

I would say as a 10 year old in 1979 I still rooted for the Packers #1a, but the Chargers were #1b.   Once John Jefferson got traded to the Packers in '81, I firmly moved away from the Chargers and cemented my Packers' fandom.

In the late '70s probably the biggest bandwagon team amongst the kids my age was the Dallas Cowboys.  I didn't gravitate towards them, but I did root for them when they would play the Steelers dynasty who in their dark black uniforms looked like the representation of evil.    I look back now, and those guys from the Steelers were actually really cool guys for the most part. 

Though a little younger, I did the exact same.  Chargers were way ahead of their time.  Jefferson, Joiner, Muncie, Winslow and Fouts.

Like others, I really enjoyed his work with Olsen. The late AFC games always seemed to be very entertaining.

Growing up in LA, my childhood was listening to him broadcast all the UCLA basketball games in the 1970's during the John Wooden era.

Other great announcers in the same time period in LA were Chick Hearn for the Lakers and Vin Scully for the Dodgers.

Yes.  Agree.  Sports Challenge.  AFC games were the best back then!

Come on, Andy.  At least get Chrissie to iron that sport coat for you.  

slowmo posted:

Other great announcers in the same time period in LA were Chick Hearn for the Lakers

The eggs are coolin' and the butter's getting hard!

Rick Jeanerette for the Buffalo Sabres:

"Top shelf where Momma hides the cookies"

Johnny Most  Celtics:

"And Larry fiddles and diddles" 

SanDiegoPackFan posted:

Come on, Andy.  At least get Chrissie to iron that sport coat for you.  

She's been through another husband since.  And yesterday was her 63rd birthday.

And of course, the correct response to "Chrissie" is throttling Jim Rome.

Eddie Doucette?

Caught that, too, huh?   Now known as "the incident".   Classic Rome episode when Everett dumped the table on Rome.  I think it was then that Rome started to handle his "smacktionary words" with more care.

The "Incident"

Bummer. RIP, Enberg. 

Those Charger teams were ahead of the times and probably would tear up the league today with that passing game and the WR no-contact-allowed rules. Loved Jefferson and Winslow, but earlier Lance Alworth was crazy great.

"Oh My!" - Dick Enberg ............ RIP

I liked him.  

Enberg wrote a one man play called “coach” based on his former broadcast partner and Marquette coach Al McGuire

I remember Dick and Merlin doing the ‘77 AFC Championship game. Oakland at Denver. Rob Lytle fumbled on the 1 yard line. Refs ruled that his forward progress was stopped before he fumbled.

“If his forward progress was stopped then I’m not sure it ever started” Dick Enberg.

This was well before replay but Dick and Merlin were all over the stripes.

I had virtually zero interest in the Broncos - Browns playoff games in the 80’s. I remember those games for Enberg and the job he did as much as the games themselves. And those were legendary games. 

A Browns playoff game would be legendary today! 

Brian Sipe!

Off memory. Brian Sipe was picked off by Mike Davis with Don Cricqui and John Brodie with the call. Crazy good game. 

Didn't realize Enberg was in his 80's.  Always enjoyed his game calls.

Loved listening to Mr. Enberg. Class act.