When he began broadcasting Chicago Blackhawks games at the start of the 1980-81 season, Pat Foley wanted fans to know he wasn’t going to be another old-school announcer, writes PWSullivan.
Replacing Foley won’t be easy, as we saw this season when the team used a revolving door of voices during games he was off. But few thought anyone could replace the great Lloyd Pettit, the soundtrack of our winters when Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita made the old Chicago Stadium roar to the rafters.“I really like still doing the games, love the challenge and get pumped up doing it,” he said Wednesday night. “But it’s the rigmarole, the surrounding stuff that comes with it.
With Tony Esposito in goal and Tom Lysiak recording a hat trick, the Hawks beat the Washington Capitals 8-4 at the Stadium in Foley’s first game on Oct. 19, 1980. Mikita’s No. 21 was retired that night, the Hawks scored a fluke goal when a pitchout by the Capitals’ Paul Mulvey went the length of the ice and ricocheted off his goalie and into the net, and a fan jumped onto the ice and took a seat in the penalty box before security escorted him out of the Stadium.
The team never explained the reasoning but insisted it wanted to retain Foley for radio broadcasts on WSCR-AM.“We spoke with Pat directly, and he understands why we did what we did,” a Hawks spokesman said.Foley quickly caught on with the Wolves and refused to watch Hawks games. While negotiating to become the Hawks president in 2007, John McDonough made it a condition that he could rehire Foley when Foley’s contract with the Wolves ended. The two had four brief meetings before a deal was struck.
The Hawks began televising all of their home games for the first time on Comcast SportsNet and WGN-9 in 2008-09 after decades of criticism over an anachronistic blackout policy. And Foley was back behind the mic for the new era, led by a pair of precocious kids, Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane, who revitalized the franchise.
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