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Even more than the Packers - this was the team of my youth (I was 7 when they won it all) and they played all the games in my mind.
Few games were on TV. If it wasn't a network game, we didn't see it. I listened to Eddie Doucette describe the action on WCLO radio.
When Dad took me to my first Bucks game, I was in awe of the players, but more excited to meet Mr. Doucette who signed my program.
Doucette called future Hall of Famer Robertson, the "Big O." Alcindor/Abdul-Jabbar was the "King" shooting "Sky-hooks" from outside the "toaster." He painted a picture every night.
When he had a game off, Jim Irwin took his place. He is better known as the 20-year voice of the Green Bay Packers. I got his autograph at a Bucks game the following season.
I loved their style and already realized the best way to get close to sports was by something other than playing.
During high school, my friend Gary and I worked together recording Janesville Craig Girls Basketball games our senior year. I never knew if they were shown, but it was fun for both of us.
While at KJJC, I was sports director doing play by play for high school football games in the fall of 1984 and basketball that winter.
That was it for my play by play career, but it wasn't the last opportunity to be around games.
In 1990 we drove to old Comisky Park to see the Brewers play the White Sox in the stadium's final season. On our way into the stadium we met Dick Stockton and Jim Kaat who were announcing the game on network television. It was literally just a brush with somebody famous.
At Lutheran High School of Indianapolis I served as public address announcer for softball, track, football, and basketball.
It was great fun. The Saints softball team won a state championship the first year I was behind the microphone.
These days, I'm doing regular auditions as an aspiring voice actor, but it is highly unlikely it will make me famous.
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