RIP Dick Enberg

mikeintopeka

Dick was at the very top of my favorite sports broadcasters. He was special.

johnnydoom

I don't really much know about the man himself, but his on air appearance and persona made him about the most likable person I've ever seen or heard. I will miss his gentle ways.

PA-PLAYA

I remember listening to him during so many football broadcasts back in the day, not to mention Wimbledon tennis, college basketball, etc.

Very distinguished voice, very distinguished career, and very underrated as a sports commentator, as he was a jack-of-all-trades within his profession. Not too many of those types left today who could cover so many sports, especially in such a professional and graceful manner in which he did.

RIP

letthebigdogshunt

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He was not underrated, he is in the baseball HOF, Basketball HOF and Football HOF as a broadcaster. He was considered one of the best in the business for most of his career. RIP Dick.

sdandrea1

RIP. Memorable talent!

The newscaster I heard today announcing his death said he died in La Jolla, .CA. He pronounced it " La Jahlla" instead of "La Hoya". Idiots that get paid to speak. 🙄

mikeintopeka

letthebigdogshunt - maybe 'under appreciated' instead of 'under rated' would be a better description. It's been many years since Enberg stepped off the national stage where he worked many of the top events and settled in San Diego working Padres games. (The owner of the Padres has offered his family the use of their stadium for a celebration of life ceremony.)

There are so many games broadcast today across the vast sports spectrum that the talent pool of play by play announcers and color analysts is diluted. Dick's pre-game study on the back stories of the players made for a compelling listen. He would drop tidbits that were news to me even when I followed my favorite teams daily and thought I knew everything about the key players.

PA-PLAYA

I think Dan Patrick's show on Friday summed it up quite succinctly.

In this current day of sports hot-takes and need for controversial statements from so-called journalists and talk-show hosts begging for "trending" discussion topics and internet clicks, there was Dick Enberg... who reminded us that sports commentating didn't need all of that.

Kind of inspiring, and a throwback to what sports, at its core, really meant back before all of this other needless crap took over... long before we needed controversial and adversarial viewpoints to keep sports interesting.

There will never be another quite like him.