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The legendary Myron Cope was incredulous when they asked him to start doing a radio show. He thought that he had the absolute WRONG voice for that.

The station manager told him that “we see a trend in this business towards lousy voices!”

Apparently the trend had ended by the time I was drawling my way through newscasts.

The station manager told him that “we see a trend in this business towards lousy voices!”

WABC in New York had a number of "bad voices". Most here would have heard Joy Behar. She was a harridan 30 years ago, too. But the stronger accent was on Lynn Samuels (R.I.P.). They even highlighted her voice in the advertisements: Oy was boo-awn in Noo Yawk, Oy was raised in Noo Yawk, Oy nevuh go ennywayuh but Noo Yawk, so this is the way that I soo-ownd!"

She lost it and was fired when paired with Barry Farber (a real pro!). He knew how the punch her buttons. I believe that she was a comparatively honest liberal, and actually was sympathetic to pro-life activist Joan Andrews, having her on the the program.

Besides Samuels and Ed Koch, the station had Ed Koch (umm....ummm). Bob Grant was his own animal. Besides him, only Rush and had good radio voices. Earlier they had mid-westerner Dave Dawson, who was great, but a bad fit for NYC. The roster of bad voices (Samuels/Behar/Kpch) was top rated at the time.

The legendary Myron Cope was incredulous when they asked him to start doing a radio show. He thought that he had the absolute WRONG voice for that.

I was one of the original founder's of Franco's Italian Army {one of eight} and we christened Myron Cope into Franco's Army during the half time of week 12 against the Browns.

Franco had two touchdowns in the first half, and we went up to the press booth, with several bottles of Zinfandel {we carried cases of bottled wine into the stadium in the 70s at 10:30 AM and partied for 6-7 hours} and made Myron an honorary Italian and therefore a member of the Army, with a Baptism of red wine.

Myron was a legend in the Burgh, after the Steelers started winning in the NFL. Prior to that, he was fingernails on a blackboard.

This is Myron Cope...on sports:)

So many great memories of living in a sports time that will never be repeated in such a short period period.

The Steelers of the 70s were the best NFL football team, EVER, and I had the privilege of being in the stadium to experience all of it.