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Mike Patrick, a 36-year-old play-by-play advertisement for ESPN, died for natural reasons 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 -time TV company on Tuesday.
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Espn -ad dick Vitale and Mike Patrick get ready before the game between North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils in Smith Center. (Bob Donnan-usa Today Sports)
After starting his career in 1982, Patrick became well known as the voice of ESPN’s “Sunday Night Football”, a role he starred for 18 years.
He started that job in 1987 and called some of the best in the NFL Primetime until 2005. He was in the booth with former NFL -quarterback Joe Theismann and then Paul Maguire.
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He was also known for his roles in college football and basketball for “worldwide leader in sports.”
For College Basketball, Patrick was best known as the voice of ESPN’s last four coverage, which began in 1996 to 2009.
“Thursday night football” and “Saturday Night Football” also Patrick also give play-by-play coverage to college football.
ESPN -TV advertisers Len Elmore (L) and Mike Patrick make up for pictures dressed in the 1980s clothing before the start of a retrospect between Virginia Cavaliers and North Carolina Tar Heels in an Atlantic Coast Conference game on February 16, 2005 at Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. North Carolina won the game 85-61. (Grant Half -Person/Getty Images)
“It’s wonderful to reflect on how I did exactly what I would do with my life,” Patrick said as he retired from ESPN in 2018. “At the same time, I’ve had the great pleasure of working with some of the very best people I’ve ever known, both in the air and behind the scenes.”
Before he broke out with ESPN, Patrick began working for WVSC radio in Somerset, Pennsylvania, in 1966. He would eventually take the trip down to Jacksonville, where he became WJXT-TV’s sports director.
Patrick also worked for WJLA TV in Washington, DC, as a sports reporter and a weekend anchor. That’s where he called Maryland Football and Basketball Games.
Apart from Sport, Patrick served in the US military, being ordered as a second lieutenant of the US Air Force after his undergrad at George Washington University.
Many people mourned over the loss of Patrick, including colleague ESPN -TV company Dr. Jerry Lee Punch.
Former ESPN -TV company Mike Patrick (C) is honored by Duke Senior Associate Director of Athletics Jon Jackson (L) and Duke Deputy Director of Athletics Mike Cragg during the game between Louisville Cardinals and Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium on February 21, 2018 in Durham, North Carolina. (Lance King/Getty Images)
“I learned so much from this man. Mike Patrick could do it all,” he wrote at X. “His preparation, his delivery, his vocal bends and his amazing dry humor made him the goat in my book. I was so honored to work @spncfb [with] Him & so blessed to call him a dear friend. RIP MIKE, U served it. “
