After 24 seasons, coltsstadiumpa was fired by the Colts as the team's stadium announcer. He tells his story. Colts NFL
Former Indianapolis Colts announcer Mike Jansen, who was let go by the team in September, reflects out the outpouring of fan support after his departure.INDIANAPOLIS -- Was it the lingering sinus infection that caused a rattle in his voice? Or was it that he unknowingly"pissed off" a Colts executive? Was it something he said? Did he rub someone the wrong way? Mike Jansen has considered those theories over and over, along with a zillion others, and has no idea.
But, in a way, it felt like a funeral, Jansen said of his Colts firing. Actually, it felt almost like an"execution."The end of Jansen's illustrious career, one in which he never missed one second, one minute, one hour, one quarter, one half, one game of more than 200 contests in 24 seasons, began the week of Aug. 15.
When Jansen arrived at the stadium Friday, he could still feel the rattle in his voice. He went to a Colts' event staffer and told him he thought he should save his voice for the preseason game the next day. Jansen said that staffer agreed with him. Jansen said David Knickerbocker, the Colts' vice president of content and production, came to the booth and told Jansen,"You have to finish the game. I don't have a back up."
"I said, 'It doesn't make sense that the 24-year stadium announcer would not train a backup,'" Jansen said.Colts add punter Nolan Cooney after Matt Haack's ugly day in Tennessee A few hours later, Jansen decided to let the Tampa game go and sent Ward an email:"Don't worry about it. I will see you at the opener ."
His firing Sept. 6 was brief."Pete said they want to make a change and it is what they want and he has to go with it," Jansen said."He thanked me for my time with the Colts and the phone call ended." The Colts declined to discuss Jansen's firing at the time, saying,"It's our organization’s policy not to disclose the reasoning for an employee’s departure." Stankevitz was named as Jansen's replacement for the remainder of the 2022 season."As a company policy we don’t publicly discuss the reasons for a termination," Ward told IndyStar. "We have the utmost respect for Mike and truly appreciate his contributions through the years.
Calling football for the Colts might be something he could be really good at. Sure, Jansen told his friends, he would try out.Chuck Pagano on Colts benching Matt Ryan, promoting Sam Ehlinger: 'Almost like a waste' As a final tryout, Jansen and Widgery alternated announcing quarters of the 1998 Colts-Chargers preseason game. It was a big game. Peyton Manning was the Colts' new quarterback and Ryan Leaf was quarterback of the Chargers. Many in the city thought the Colts should have taken Leaf over Manning.
After graduating from Bishop Chatard High, where he played football, Jansen went to Ball State and majored in business. But as his freshman year of college ended, Jansen was out of money. He took a year and a half off and worked for General Cinema, taking tickets at the Glendale theater to replenish his bank account.
Around that time in 1998, Jansen saw the callout for open tryouts for the Colts announcer. He walked into the RCA Dome having no idea he would be the voice of Indy's NFL team for nearly a quarter of a century. He wasn't"drunk" Jansen said. But he had alcohol in his system. The adrenaline of game day got him through the shakiness. But when he left the stadium and went home, he drank more. He drank sometimes until he passed out.
"He was really one of them at the end of the day," said Derek Wolfe, who worked with Jansen as Colts executive producer before leaving the team six months ago to start his own screen printing business."Mike gets our fan base. He knows the people and what they want. He talked to them, he involved them, he told them stories."
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