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12-22-2017, 03:27 AM
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/sd-sp-dick-enberg-death-obit-20171221-story.html
Enberg, who died Thursday morning of a possible heart attack, retired after a 60-year career just last year, in October 2016. His career included stints at CBS, NBC, ESPN and, until last year, Fox Sports San Diego, where he called Padres games. Enberg called 10 Super Bowls, covered 28 Wimbledon tennis tournaments and even announced the Rose Parade. Enberg and former NBC Sports colleague Vin Scully retired on the same day, Oct. 2, 2016, with the two legends discussing their respective broadcasting careers (https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/watch-vin-scully-and-dick-enberg-got-together-and-shared-a-bunch-of-great-stories/). Enberg -- who has been honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Baseball Hall of Fame -- said of his career: “To be with the greatest in the history of the game and sit next to them (https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/51sbaseball/oh-my-dick-enberg-says-goodbye-to-long-broadcasting-career/) and pick their brain every day, and they pay me for it and they put me in a good seat, too, behind home plate or midcourt or at the 50-yard line. It’s an incredibly privileged life and part of it is because of those who you were able to share a broadcast with.”
Bob Costas on Dick Enberg: “He was a sentimental man but there was nothing inauthentic about that enthusiasm”
(https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/12/22/sportscaster-dick-enberg-death-tribute-bob-costas)
“With all due respect to other great announcers in the ‘70s and ‘80s if you were to have a decathlon of play-by-play, he would have won that decathlon of play-by-play because he did so many things exquisitely well,” said Costas of his former NBC Sports colleague, who died Thursday at age 82. “He did seven or eight things really, really well, and was at or near the top of all those things. And he did with the combination of extraordinary craftsmanship, meticulous preparation, facility with words and a genuine—not a manufactured, but a genuine—boyish enthusiasm. He was a sentimental man but there was nothing inauthentic about that enthusiasm.”
ALSO:
Enberg wasn't flashy -- he was truly at his best reacting in the moment (http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/ct-spt-dick-enberg-tribute-rosenthal-20171222-story.html)
Watch six games Enberg called, including John Elway's helicopter play in the Super Bowl (http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/12/dick-enberg-greatest-calls-the-fumble-the-drive-elway-helicopter-naked-gun-videos)
Sports broadcasters from Mike Tirico to Chris Fowler pay tribute to Enberg (https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/12/22/dick-enberg-dead-broadcaster-sportswriter-reaction)
Tom Brokaw, Keith Olbermann, Chuck D and Cher also offer their condolences (http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/dick-enberg-dead-82-reaction-sports-1202647905/)
Enberg, who died Thursday morning of a possible heart attack, retired after a 60-year career just last year, in October 2016. His career included stints at CBS, NBC, ESPN and, until last year, Fox Sports San Diego, where he called Padres games. Enberg called 10 Super Bowls, covered 28 Wimbledon tennis tournaments and even announced the Rose Parade. Enberg and former NBC Sports colleague Vin Scully retired on the same day, Oct. 2, 2016, with the two legends discussing their respective broadcasting careers (https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/watch-vin-scully-and-dick-enberg-got-together-and-shared-a-bunch-of-great-stories/). Enberg -- who has been honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Baseball Hall of Fame -- said of his career: “To be with the greatest in the history of the game and sit next to them (https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/51sbaseball/oh-my-dick-enberg-says-goodbye-to-long-broadcasting-career/) and pick their brain every day, and they pay me for it and they put me in a good seat, too, behind home plate or midcourt or at the 50-yard line. It’s an incredibly privileged life and part of it is because of those who you were able to share a broadcast with.”
Bob Costas on Dick Enberg: “He was a sentimental man but there was nothing inauthentic about that enthusiasm”
(https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/12/22/sportscaster-dick-enberg-death-tribute-bob-costas)
“With all due respect to other great announcers in the ‘70s and ‘80s if you were to have a decathlon of play-by-play, he would have won that decathlon of play-by-play because he did so many things exquisitely well,” said Costas of his former NBC Sports colleague, who died Thursday at age 82. “He did seven or eight things really, really well, and was at or near the top of all those things. And he did with the combination of extraordinary craftsmanship, meticulous preparation, facility with words and a genuine—not a manufactured, but a genuine—boyish enthusiasm. He was a sentimental man but there was nothing inauthentic about that enthusiasm.”
ALSO:
Enberg wasn't flashy -- he was truly at his best reacting in the moment (http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/ct-spt-dick-enberg-tribute-rosenthal-20171222-story.html)
Watch six games Enberg called, including John Elway's helicopter play in the Super Bowl (http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/12/dick-enberg-greatest-calls-the-fumble-the-drive-elway-helicopter-naked-gun-videos)
Sports broadcasters from Mike Tirico to Chris Fowler pay tribute to Enberg (https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/12/22/dick-enberg-dead-broadcaster-sportswriter-reaction)
Tom Brokaw, Keith Olbermann, Chuck D and Cher also offer their condolences (http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/dick-enberg-dead-82-reaction-sports-1202647905/)