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Mike Patrick, a game announcer for 36 -year -old game for ESPN, died of natural causes on Sunday.
Patrick was 80 years old.
Patrick’s doctor, as well as the city of Clarksburg, West Virginia, confirmed the death of the long -standing announcer on Tuesday.
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ESPN Dick Vitale and Mike Patrick are prepared before the game between the North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils in the Smith Center. (Bob Donnan-USA Today Sports)
After starting his career in 1982, Patrick became known as the voice of “Sunday Night Football” by ESPN, a role in which he starred for 18 years.
That work began in 1987, calling some of the best in the star schedule of the NFL until 2005. He was in the stand with the former NFL field marshal Joe Theismann, and then Paul Maguire.
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He was also known for his roles in university football and basketball for the “world leader in sports.”
For university basketball, Patrick was better known as The Voice for ESPN Four Four coverage, which began in 1996 to 2009.
“Thursday Night Football” and “Saturday Night Football” saw Patrick provide game coverage for play for university football.
The television broadcasters ESPN Len Elmore (L) and Mike Patrick Post for photos dressed in the clothes of the 1980s before the beginning of a retro night game between the Cavaliers of Virginia and the Tar Heels of North Carolina in a game of the Atlantic coast conference on February 16, 2005, in Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. North Carolina won the game 85-61. (Grant Halverson/Getty images)
“It is wonderful to reflect on how I have done exactly what I wanted to do with my life,” Patrick said when he retired from ESPN in 2018. “At the same time, I had the great pleasure of working with some of the best people I have met, both in the air and behind the scenes.”
Before going out with ESPN, Patrick began working for WVSC-Radio in Somerset, Pennsylvania, in 1966. Eventually he would take the trip to Jacksonville, where he became a sports director of WJXT-TV.
Patrick also worked for WJLA-TV in Washington, DC, as a sports reporter and weekend presenter. It was there that he called Maryland’s soccer and basketball games.
In addition to sports, Patrick served in the US army, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force after his degree at George Washington University.
Many cried the loss of Patrick, including ESPN Dr. Jerry Lee Punch.
Former ESPN Mike Patrick (C) announcer is honored by Duke Jon Jon Jackson’s Senior Athletics Director (L) and the deputy director of Athletics of Duke Mike Cragg during the game between Louisville cardinals and the Duke Blue Devils in the Cameron Indoor Stadium on February 21, 2018 in Durham, Carolina del Norte. (Lance King/Getty Images)
“I learned a lot from this man. Mike Patrick could do everything,” he wrote in X. “His preparation, his delivery, his voice inflections and his incredible dry humor made him the goat in my book. I felt very honest to work @espncfb [with] He, and very blessed to call him a dear friend. Rip Mike, you won it. “
