And not a single fark was given.

farkin' Stingrays.

/Repeat

They were fun to listen to back in the day. Good times.

Count me as one of those who turned down the volume on the crappy TV announcers and cranked up Jim, Max and Larry. Rest easy, Jim.

Three-Headed Dog: Count me as one of those who turned down the volume on the crappy TV announcers and cranked up Jim, Max and Larry. Rest easy, Jim.

Same here. I knew the greatness of Jim and Max, and he retired when I was 14 years old. Very sad that they've both left us.

Three-Headed Dog: Count me as one of those who turned down the volume on the crappy TV announcers and cranked up Jim, Max and Larry. Rest easy, Jim.

Jim Irwin and Max McGee got me through "the dark times" when every FARKING Packer game was called by Madden and Summerall.

Was at Lambeau for the last game they called, and they had a nice tribute for them both. I still turn down the TV and listen to Wayne Larrivee and Larry McCarren, but Wayne yells a little to much for my taste.

RIP Jim.

picodenico: Three-Headed Dog: Count me as one of those who turned down the volume on the crappy TV announcers and cranked up Jim, Max and Larry. Rest easy, Jim.

Same here. I knew the greatness of Jim and Max, and he retired when I was 14 years old. Very sad that they've both left us.


Count me in. The best was when they basically gave up on the game now and then and sounded like Uecker's Harry Doyle character from Major League. They knew how to keep listeners tuned in.

Made the dark years bearable.

great_tigers: And not a single fark was given.


Oh, and a FARK YOU to you.

/Scuzzy Michigan bastage.

Max had great stories that he'd tell back in the pre-Majkowski days which were great (especially when the Packers were stinking up the NFL). In pre-DVR days listening to them was much better than whomever was calling the NFC (back then) on CBS.

Jim Irwin just had a voice for sports. He did Badger football, Bucks games, and Brewers games
When Uecker was out filming Mr Belvidere.

I always loved Max. Larry McArren is almost as goofy as he was. His old stories
were just way too funny, just like listening to Uecker rant on. There was somewhere
on the net where Uecker was talking about the "furries" convention at a hotel he was
in in Pittsburgh for a Brewers game. Funny as hell.

Will miss the day when Uecker is gone.

phxmke: There was somewhere
on the net where Uecker was talking about the "furries" convention at a hotel he was
in in Pittsburgh for a Brewers game. Funny as hell.

Oh Lordy, I remember that. Hilarious.

The opening montage to Packer Pregame still gives me goosebumps when it gets to their call of the end of Super Bowl XXXI.

/"There... is... your... SUPER BOWL... dagger!" is pretty good, too.

A sad day for Packers fans. When I was a kid my dad and I would listen to Jim and Max on the radio instead of the TV like many of you.

Of course, in those days dad would go do yardwork during the second half.

My CSB:

Never met Jim, but I got to spend a couple of hours with Max at an autograph signing at the Holt Ave. Pick & Save that was unbelievably slow. Great stories, lots of laughs. It was as if Max and I knew each other for 20 years. He was also blown away by my impression of Jim.

This hits a little close for me having worked for Willie Davis, did some shows with Lionel Aldridge (and working with one of his daughters) and just being a lifelong Packers fan.

One of the triggers on my Jim and Max drinking game was to drink when Jim hit a sponsor's liner out of nowhere as I scan the field with these Busssshnell binoculars available at one of seven area Mike Crivello's World of Cameras on the Paaackers Radio Network...

RIP, Jim

Back in those days, Wisconsin natives had the best lawns. Monday at work you would ask if your co-worker watched the game and the response was usually, "Yeah, the first half...then I went out to work on the lawn"!!