RIP Jim Irwin

Didn't even know he was ill or anything. Do you have a link?

Max and Jim, two originals and a team that will never be duplicated.

Wisconsin sports fans have been blessed with wonderful announcers. Uek, Jim and Max, LePay, Eddie Doucette to name a few...

Irwin dead at 77

Sounds like Renal Cancer.


Thanks for the memories Jim !!!

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"The Vince Lombardi Trophy is coming home where it started!....4, 3, 2, 1, World Champion Green Bay Packers" - Packers 35, Patriots 21 in Super Bowl XXXI.

Kidney cancer. Sad development. Visceral memories for all of us likely involve the sound of his voice.

Linky

Why yes, there is a link

Here's a more direct link, but since it's from the MJS, I don't know if you'll have to pay for it

Just when I thought this Monday couldn't get any fricken worse. RIP Jim

Man, this is sad news...the voice of the Packers along with Max and later Larry...the only way to listen to the Packers. RIP Jim.

sad day. rip.

i loved jim and max.

Here's an interview (Mike Jacobs WTMJ) in May 2011.

Irwin discusses cancer

Truly a sad day, great announcer and great Packer fan. RIP Jim!!!

Great thing about Jim was that he could make the Packers worst game exciting. I'd rather listen to Jim and Max call any game over any announcer I've ever heard these past 40 plus years!!!

A little more of my youth just left.

RIP.

Loved him.

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I'd rather listen to Jim and Max call any game over any announcer I've ever heard these past 40 plus years!!!

Sad news indeed. I can barely remember a time when he wasn't doing play-by-play for the Packers.

Woooooooooorld Champion! Greeeeeen Baaaaaaaay Packerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs!

5 words that I'll never forget from the end of SB 31.

Jim and I live in Irvine Ca. We were members of the same Senior Men's Golf Club at Rancho San Joaquen Golf Club. Amazingly, during all the times we played golf together we rarely talked about the "PACK" that much...his focus was more on the golfing. He did love to recount many of his personal experiences in Milwaukee and his travels. I saw Jim in our neighborhood gorcery store about 2 months ago and he looked good. Said he couldn't hit a ball as yet and showed me the tube he have in his arm for I. V.'s. He was very positive and talked about getting back to the game. That's the last I heard from him. Must have gone down hill fast.

I grew up listening to him do both the Packers and the Bucks. He also did the sports on the Rob Edwards show in the AM on WTMJ which we listened to religiously.

Jim was a great play by play guy. Those Bucks teams of the 80s with forgotten legend Sidney Moncrief and many other great players were something else and I listened on the radio calls of these games most of the time.

RIP Jim. We will miss you more now.

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Originally posted by JJSD:
Woooooooooorld Champion! Greeeeeen Baaaaaaaay Packerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs!

A lot of us who suffered along with him in the lean years between Lombardi and Holmgren were extra tickled that he got to call a Super Bowl victory for GB.

Yep. Couldn't agree more. When I was a kid my Dad used to insist on turning down the TV (since crappy GB teams regularly got the bottom-tier announcing teams) and tuning into the radio for the audio portion of the games. That wasn't always the smoothest process when the timing didn't sync before the days of pausing live TV. He and Max made a lot of really bad football a lot more enjoyable to experience.

So.CA.Bear...

Thanks for the inside story.

Please don't wait another seven years before you post again!

One of my favorite calls was the playoff game at Detroit where Sharpe was wide wide open and Favre threw a s far as he could in order so Sharpe could catch it.

RIP Jim. Your golden voice can once again pair with Max.

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Originally posted by JJSD:
Woooooooooorld Champion! Greeeeeen Baaaaaaaay Packerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs!

5 words that I'll never forget from the end of SB 31.

That call will be part of the Packers lexicon forever, even my kids know it when they hear it

We saw Jim at SB 32 walking through the parking lot, got a chance to shake his hand and tell him thanks for everything...he will be missed

Jim and Max were truly awesome. Even when the Pack wasn't doing so well (which was often in the '70s and '80s) both those guys found a way to make the game entertaining. Glad they both were around long enough as announcers to see the turnaround in the '90s and the first post Lombardi Super Bowl teams.

I've grown to like Wayne and Larry and they've done a fine job too. But Jim and Max were about as good as it gets in terms of enjoyment.

Very sad, he was an amazing announcer and Packer fan. RIP.

Sad deal - RIP Jim

Fond memories of listening to Packer games on the radio on Sundays. The youngsters that grew up before Sunday ticket can appreciate this.

I grew up in BoB land and the Packers were hardly ever on TV.

I used to drive out of the bluffs of Bellevue toward Dubuque and find a decent spot for reception for the games.

That and Sundays we visited my Grandma in the Dyersville area I could always get the game pretty decent...because I was away from all the hills and bluffs.

My how the picture of a game used to be painted.

One of my favorite calls was when Jacke hit the 53 yard GW at home against SF in 1996. As the ball sailed through the uprights, "Da he won it!" classic, classic call.

He and Max were definitely often more entertaining than the game. Once in the '80s, late in a blowout (loss, probably), a flag was thrown. As they were awaiting the official's call, Max said, "Did you see how far that flag went? It must've gone 20 yards." This led to a long conversation about penalty flags, how far they can fly, how much the wind has to do with it, etc. Meanwhile the game went on. Finally after about three minutes, Jim stopped and said, "Uh...what down is it?"

part of me misses listening to the radio on gameday.

Jim and Max were my Packers lifeline while growing up in Chicago. I'll never forget Jim's call on the Chester Marcol TD over the Bears on opening day in 1980. If I didn't also have the game on the TV, I would have never known what was going on. He was just yelling "Chester Marcol, Chester Marcol" over and over. At least that's how I remember it.

I just remember that when I was a kid my dad used to referee major and minor adult soccer games in the greater Milwaukee area on Sundays in fall and spring. During games he was refereeing my brother, sister and I used to sit in the car and listen to the Packers when they were on. Jim and Max were golden. I remember there were times when Hornung would show up and Max would enjoy some beverages basically while while on air and the rest of the broadcast would get interesting. I have always preferred the radio call to TV. We used to turn down the TV and turn on the radio.

Back in the day we would listen to Jim make the call while my Dad, me and my brother would be sitting in a duck blind down at Goose Island on some cold, windy and cloudy days. Ahhh, those were good times.

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Back in the day we would listen to Jim make the call while my Dad, me and my brother would be sitting in a duck blind down at Goose Island on some cold, windy and cloudy days. Ahhh, those were good times.

Speak for yourself - you always made me stand and block the wind for you, and then retrieve the ducks cuz we were too poor to have a retriever.

(yes GBP1 is my brother - I apologize in advance for his posts)

RIP Jim... you were a great one.

I briefly met him in the early 80's when the Bucks played the San Diego Clippers in San Diego. It was awhile before the game and he was sitting down by the floor; he didn't look busy at the time so I went up and introduced myself. We had a nice little chat. On the air during the radio broadcast, he gave a shout out to my family that I was alive and well. I just remember what a down to earth guy he seemed.

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Originally posted by El-Ka-Bong:
part of me misses listening to the radio on gameday.

Man, if I could sync my Sunday Ticket with-----is it Wayne and Larry? Haaven't heard a Packer game on radio in 20 years-----I'd do it in a second.

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Originally posted by ZUF:

(yes GBP1 is my brother - I apologize in advance for his posts)

Does your brother have the same senseless hate for Eli Manning that you do?

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Originally posted by ZUF:

(yes GBP1 is my brother - I apologize in advance for his posts)


Does your brother have the same senseless hate for Eli Manning that you do?

I actually like Eli better than his old brother. He has lived in the shadow of that big forehaid, and has to deal with New Yorkers. Peyton has to deal with hicks from Indiana (my apologies in advance to any natives of the hoosier state but its the truth)

I have had to live in GPB1's shadow, but it was pretty small if you know what I mean.

I can insult my brother and hoosers any time so I don't want to detract from Jim in this thread.

One of my favorite calls was the one of Chris Jacke kicking that 53 yarder vs the Niners in SB 31 Year.

From time to time, 620 will air a classic game during the bye week and I'll catch Jim and Max doing the broadcast. You forget how good of a team they were. As much as I like Wayne and Larry, I loved Jim and Max.

RIP Jim.

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He has lived in the shadow of that big forehaid, and has to deal with New Yorkers.

It was his choice to deal with New Yorkers, what with the way he screwed over San Diego.