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How a Vandal became the ‘keeper of the Boise State flame’

To fully appreciate the Paul J. Schneider experience, you have to listen to him tell a story.

Whether it’s his telling of Duane Dlouhy’s game-winning touchdown catch in the 1980 I-AA football national championship game or his recounting of Bart Hendricks’ 77-yard touchdown run against UTEP in the 2000 Humanitarian Bowl, Schneider is a bank vault filled with blue-and-orange memories.

Each transcendent moment in Boise State history seems to involve Schneider’s signature, scruffy voice. His Twitter biography, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, refers to him as the “All-seeing keeper of the Boise State flame.”

Schneider, 74, was the Boise State football and men’s basketball radio play-by-play announcer from 1973 through the end of the 2008 basketball season.