Billy Packer was synonymous with the Final Four. The event's current voice, Jim Nantz, spoke with Packer the night before he died. 'At the end, I told him I loved him.” RichardDeitsch has more:
ByJim Nantz first met Billy Packer in 1979, two months after Magic Johnson and Larry Bird played in a seminal NCAA men’s basketball championship game viewed by an estimated 40 million Americans. The NCAA golf championship that year was at Bermuda Run Golf Club in North Carolina, and the Packer family lived off the eighth green.
If you want to watch a sports broadcasting trio in perfect harmony, find an easy chair and view the full broadcast of that. You can’t help but become a college basketball fan — and Packer is lights-out with informing the audience on why things are happening. Packer moved to CBS after the 1980-81 season, when CBS acquired the rights to the NCAA Tournament. At CBS, Packer was not just a broadcaster. He played a substantial part in the sale, promotion, scheduling and merchandising of college hoops. It is a hilarious sentence to write today:Packer’s broadcasting resume concluded with 34 consecutive Final Fours called for NBC and CBS, with the first being John Wooden’s final game as coach in 1975 and the last beingover Memphis in 2008.
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