BOULDER — It’s not easy to surprise someone who has spent literally a half a century covering college football.
But legendary sportscaster Larry Zimmer, a man who has been behind the mic for more than 50 years — 42 of them as the play-by-play or color man for the Colorado Buffaloes — was rendered at least momentarily speechless Friday night when he was honored at betwen the first and second quarters of the Colorado-USC game at Folsom Field.
Friday, which also happened to be Zimmer’s 80th birthday, was his final “working” game at Folsom Field.