FOX Sports will have an opening on its NFL broadcasting roster as Dick Stockton has retired after a 55-year career.
Stockton’s decision was reported by the New York Post on Thursday.
“I just think it is time,” the 78-year-old Stockton said.
Stockton has been with FOX since 1994 when it acquired rights to broadcast NFL games. He has worked a modified schedule in recent years.
His most famous call came in 1975 when he was on the mic for Carlton Fisk’s home run in Game 6 of the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
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“I always said that, ‘Dick Stockton could do games here as long as he possibly wanted to do games here,’” FOX Sports boss Eric Shanks said. “I will take Dick Stockton, on his worst day rolling out of bed, over almost any other play-by-play guy’s best day. When he called me [to tell me he was retiring,] I was upset. I was emotional. I really didn’t think he would call it right now. I’m sad.”