I'm not familiar with the earlier days of his career, but Dan Patrick's bio mentions that he was once a television sportscaster in Houston. It must be the same person you remember.
He started in sports. KSEV was one of the first radio stations in America to carry Rush Limbaugh.
OK, thanks for the info. His sportscasting style was "unusual" or maybe just different. That's why he got canned. He never did anything radical, just unusual.
When a Houston Astro would get a home run, for example, on the replay during the sportscast and right when the bat would make contact with the ball he would shout, "BOOM!" and there would be a big "BOOM" graphic that would show up on the screen a la the Batman TV series or like a comic book if you aren't familiar with the TV series. He did other things like that.
The other thing he did is call a spade a spade with the Houston sports teams, coaches, owners, players, etc.....kinda like he does now with politicians.