He worked in Washington in the 1970s, doing play-by-play for the Senators and Bullets, before gaining wider recognition through college football.
. But he added that after more than two decades broadcasting Fighting Irish games — some 300 in all, from 1980 until he was replaced in the booth in 2006 — “I’ve come to see that Irish football is now about equal with baseball.”
For all his enthusiasm, Mr. Roberts was known for remaining clearsighted in his broadcasts. “When Notre Dame stunk, he said they stunk,” Darin Pritchett, a South Bend radio host,“The thing that set him apart was the fact that he was so methodical in what he did,” sportscaster Johnny Holliday, the voice of the University of Maryland football and basketball teams, said in a phone interview. Holliday, who worked Bullets and Senators games with Mr. Roberts in the early ’70s, recalled how Mr.
After Army service in Japan, Mr. Roberts studied broadcast journalism at Columbia College in Chicago, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1956. He was hired the next year by a new station in Clinton, Iowa, where he was paid $62.50 a week to do sports shows, farm reports and virtually anything else that needed to be announced on air.
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