Jim Irwin passed away on Sunday.
Jim Irwin, the voice of the Green Bay Packers for three decades, died Sunday from complications of kidney cancer, his son Jay Irwin said Monday.
Jim Irwin, worked as a color analyst for Packers games on WTMJ-AM (620) radio from 1969 until 1975 and worked as a play-by-play announcer until he and his longtime sidekick Max McGee retired at the end of the 1998 season. He also called Milwaukee Bucks and Wisconsin Badgers games and served as a fill-in radio voice for Milwaukee Brewers games.
Irwin was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame and was recognized as the Wisconsin sports Announcer of the Year 10 times. He's in the Wisconsin Broadcasting Association Hall of Fame.
Irwin was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2010, according to WTMJ. In an interview last year, Irwin told WTMJ that he wore his Super Bowl XXXI ring as a good-luck charm during this year's Super Bowl 45 game.
"Every time there would be a close play, which started with my grandson, he ran over and started rubbing the ring," Irwin told WTMJ. "Well by the time we got to the fourth quarter and the last series by the Steelers, everybody was rubbing the ring."
Rest in Peace.
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