News 12 Long Island to sign Bob Wolff for two more years
Bob Wolff, a walking, talking, still working trove of sports broadcasting history, has re-upped for two more years at News 12 Long Island, the station will announce later today.
By the end of the deal, my soon-to-be Cablevision teammate will have been in broadcasting for 71 years, 64 of them on television. Yikes! That's even longer than Evan Roberts has been in the business.
Bob was at the mike for the first NBA game I remember watching - the Knicks' classic come-from-behind victory over the Royals in 1969.
That game was one of those remembered by readers in Wednesday's post that invited people to recall infamous sports collapses.
Thanks to all for contributing. Many worthy contenders.
I kind of like JBM's reminder of the Jets' double-OT playoff loss to the Browns after the 1986 season. That one hurt.
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Hey Best:
Surprised that one hurt you - I always figured you to be a big Giants fan who would have reveled in that flop, like my father did. It got worse whent eh Giants won the Super Bowl three weeks later.
I should add that I find it stunning that Wolff is still going strong and will be on another two years with News 12. I interned over there during the summer of 1992 and the other on-air sports guys - Carl Reuter and Mike Zimet - always wondered how much longer he would continue before retiring. Probbaly so they could have moved to the #1 chair.
Both of course left eventually. Mike Zimet now runs his own company that does event security - I ran into him while working at the Red Carpet Parade (send that one over to Baumbach!).