For 20 years, Mark Johnson has called every tackle, touchdown and timeout at Folsom Field. He’s done so from a room overlooking the stadium called the Larry Zimmer press box.
The box is named after the legendary University of Colorado Boulder football and men’s basketball announcer who died in January. But when Johnson first came to CU Boulder in 2004, he spent 12 years calling games with the late Larry Zimmer himself.
Johnson told the CU Independent he remembers the late announcer’s legacy of compassion, culture and knowledge he left behind after calling play-by-plays for 42 football seasons.