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Mike Patrick, ESPN's 36-year play announcer, passed away on Sunday of natural causes.
Patrick was 80 years old.
Patrick's doctor and Clarksburg, West Virginia confirmed the long-standing death of the station on Tuesday.
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ESPN announcers Dick Vitale and Mike Patrick prepare for the match between the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Duke Blue Devils at Smith Center. (Bob Dongnan Usan Today Sports)
After starting his career in 1982, Patrick became famous as the voice of ESPN's “Sunday Night Football.”
He began his job in 1987 and until 2005 he called the best of NFL Primetime.
Longtime NHL goalkeeper, broadcaster Greg Mirren, died at the age of 67.
He was also renowned for his roles in college football and basketball as “the world leader in sports.”
In college basketball, Patrick was best known as the voice of ESPN's women's final four, which began in 1996-2009.
“Thursday Night Football” and “Saturday Night Football” also provided coverage of each college football play.
ESPN TV announcers Len Elmore (L) and Mike Patrick will pos for a 1980s dressed photo before the start of a retro night game between the Virginia Cavaliers and the North Carolina Tar Heels at the Atlantic Coast Conference match held at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on February 16, 2005. North Carolina won Game 85-61. (Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
“It's great to look back on what I did exactly what I wanted to do in my life,” Patrick said in 2018 when he retired from ESPN.
Before breaking into ESPN, Patrick began working at WVSC-Radio in Somerset, Pennsylvania in 1966. He eventually traveled to Jacksonville, where he became the sports director of WJXT-TV.
Patrick also worked for WJLA-TV in Washington, DC as a sports reporter and weekend anchor. It was where he called for Maryland football and basketball games.
Apart from sports, Patrick served in the US military and was commissioned as the second aide in the US Air Force following an undergraduate at George Washington University.
Many lamented the loss of Patrick, including ESPN broadcaster Dr. Jerry Lee Punch.
Former ESPN broadcaster Mike Patrick (c) will be recognized by the Duke Senior Associate Director of Athletics and Associate Director of Athletics Athletics and Mike Cragg of Athletics Athletics during the match between the Louisville Cardinals and Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium on February 21, 2018 in North Carolina. (Lance King/Getty Images)
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“I learned a lot from this guy. Mike Patrick was able to do it all,” he wrote to X.
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