Posted on 06/21/2005 8:07:11 AM PDT by beyond the sea
The Steelers' Myron Cope has just announced his retirement.
So sad. Yoi!
It was painfully obvious he should have retired awhile ago.
I spent my high school and college evenings listening to Myron do the Steeler games and the weekday evening "Myron Cope on Sports". I remember his annual Christmas carols, like "Deck those Broncos, they're just yonkos". He has not sounded well since last year when he had his throat problem before the season and I'm not surprised he's giving it up. Frankly, it was surprising he made it through last season. While Myron played the goof on the radio, and is used as a gag on one talk show here in Cleveland, his writing about boxing and football was always good. He will be missed.
I'll miss hearing him. Myron made sports a lot of fun, and on top of that, he is simply a very good guy.
WTAE. KDKA had Roy Fox, Mike Levine and others on against Myron all those years.
Cope's delivery was unique--very weird in the abstract, of course, but he had that indefinable something special. If nothing else, it was fun listening to him get flustered and frustrated!
Like Bob Dylan's or Neil Young's voice, you somehow get hooked, and it somehow just works. You couldn't duplicate him (or Dylan or Young) if you wanted to--and who would want to, really.
I'll take unique and memorable over trite and forgettable anytime.
He's kind of a "sports guy" equivalent of former Mayor Sophie Masloff in that respect.
I'll always think of the Ohio NFL teams as the "Cleve Brahnies" and the "Bungles," thanks to Myron.
That's not true - us Browns fans have been imitating Myron for years.
Oh man, the "Burgh" is losing another icon. Growing up in the "Burgh", I have many fond memories of Myron Cope and what he meant to the city. The "terrible towel" is probably his most famous contribution. Gooooooo Steelers!
LOL! Imitable but not duplicable!
IIRC, Myron was on WTAE.
I gotta admit, he was an "acquired taste"...
either yinz liked him, or yinz din't
But for yinz jagoffs who think he was a "putz"
just be happy that KDKA's "Mouth of the South" din't get the job of broadcasting the Stillers.
Double Yoi!
Time to read the book.
Thanks Myron!
I recall Bill Curry, but I was exiled from the 'Burgh many years ago.
The man talked very loud from his first broadcast. An interview with Howard Cosell was amusing as Myron shut him down. Frenchie Fuqua [sp, pls] picked him up over his head during an interview. Lots of fun.
Curry, the Mouth of the South mentioned in a post above, bounced around from station to station, ending up on WHJB in Greensburg, but now that you mention it, did do some time from 6-9 against Myron.
And he could always make Vinnie Interceptaverde turn over the ball. Think about last season. The whole 15-1 thing got rolling on an improbable late-game fumble by the Cowboys. That was the type of Myron magic we will dearly miss.
SD
I always suspected that comedian Gilbert Gottfried got his start by doing Myron Cope imitations.
Myron is a link to the past when it was still a game. Now it's all so corporate. Most of the NFL announcers are one-size-fits-all, more or less interchangeable. Myron is an original. And I'm no Steelers fan.
I can understand the need for "objective" network announcers. But I also want the hometown option, the guys who follow my team and actually want them to do well.
In the future, it should be fairly easy to have multiple audio streams. I should be able to select whose announcers I want to hear when I watch a game.
SD
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