by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Bob Bratina was born and raised in Hamilton. He began his over 41 year career as a broadcaster in 1965. Bratina was the voice of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Toronto Argonauts for 20 seasons, broadcasting over 500 games. Bratina also broadcast McMaster Football. He...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Jim Cox began working for a Vancouver based radio station CKNW in 1945 at the age of 16. Between 1945 and 1956, Cox covered 14 different sports for the station. In 1955, Cox began doing play-by-play for the newly formed BC Lions, a position he would hold until 1983....
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Bob Irving, the man they call Knuckles, was born and raised in Saskatchewan, and began his radio career at CJSL in Estevan, Saskatchewan in 1969. Irving then moved to Brandon, Manitoba in 1970 and was hired by CJOB in Winnipeg in 1973, where he have been ever since....
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
He is A. Gordon Craig now but he’ll always be Gordie to the Football Reporters of Canada. Born in Brandon, Manitoba in the 1930s, Craig got into broadcasting with CBC Winnipeg in 1955. He did everything but mop the floors at first, then got behind a camera, shooting...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
J.P. McConnell was born in British Columbia in 1945, and 50 years later he was still there, but there were several stops along the way. Nelson, Calgary, Red Deer, Melfort, Moose Jaw and Winnipeg, in that order, then back to B.C., where in 1969 he started covering the...
