RIP Myron Cope

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Every Steelers lover is in complete shock as the news of the passing of Steelers announcer Myron Cope made its way through phones and email this morning. I've included the link and the first few paragraphs of the story below.

RIP Myron. We have missed you since your retirement, and one day I'll hear that crazy voice of yours again!


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i...rRpfQD8V2TI200

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Myron Cope spoke in a language and with a voice never before heard in a broadcast booth, yet a loving Pittsburgh understood him perfectly during an unprecedented 35 years as a Steelers announcer.

The screechy-voiced Cope, a writer by trade and an announcer by accident whose colorful catch phrases and twirling Terrible Towel became nationally known symbols of the Steelers, died Wednesday at age 79.

Cope died at a nursing home in Mount Lebanon, a Pittsburgh suburb, Joe Gordon, a former Steelers executive and a longtime friend of Cope's, said. Cope had been treated for respiratory problems and heart failure in recent months.