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Komets Broadcaster Bob Chase Still Going Strong

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

At 85 years old, Fort Wayne Komets play-by-play broadcaster Bob Chase is looking forward to calling the team's 60th season.
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/sports/article_7b73b554-68b2-11e0-832c-001cc4c002e0.html

Incidentally, this story comes on the heels of the death of David Welker, the owner of the original Komets franchise who had relocated it to Albany more than twenty years ago (that franchise eventually folded). The current Komets team exists today due to the purchase of the Komets logo and other criteria from Welker weeks after he pulled an Irsay on Indiana.
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110412/SPORTS0601/304129945/1008/SPORTS

Of course, anyone within WOWO's then-50,000-watt signal (prior to Inner City Broadcasting's purchase of the station with the main objective being to lower WOWO's power in favor of Inner City's WLIB/New York) might have heard Bob Chase call a Komets game or two.
 
listen to Mike "Doc" Emerick on NBC or Versus...he's a "student" of Bob Chase.

"A DRIVE"
"SCORE KOMETS!"
"And on WOWO, Komet Hockey!" I love it when the game's down to the last 4-5 minutes and the K's are in a battle...Oh yeah Bob's going to tell you what he thinks of: the other team, the refs, the KOMETS... broadcast worthy of course. I'm just curious (as a fan of the team, based on Coliseum speculation,) whether or not the K's stay in the Central Hockey League. Rumor is that the Frankes are going to regroup the International Hockey League, which the team was in (in a few configurations) for over 50 years. That doesn't count the United League time. But no matter where they go as long as he's got the will and the desire Bob Chase will be on the mic at "Radio Rinkside." Bob Chase: the man, THE broadcaster. I am not worthy to say his name.
 
I used to listen to the Komets starting in the early 1970's after I got my first radio in grade school while growing up in the Hartford area. WOWO used to boom into northern CT at night! Bob Chase is a very entertaining yet knowledgeable play by play guy. Nice to see he is still going strong after all these years. Can't hear the station now though thanks to the change in power and due to the fact I now live in Misery (MO).
 
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