Dick Vitale has been part of ESPN since the beginning. If you want to see something funny, look up some early clips when he’s playing it straight. Bill Walton did it too until, like Vitale, his inner freak could not be contained.
The funniest thing was when Vitale and Keith Jackson did their first game together. Whoa, Nelly!
But eventually, as he usually does, Vitale won Jackson over and they had a great chemistry.
Vitale has had a long and honorable career and no one loves college basketball quite the way he does.
Unfortunately the last few years haven’t been easy for Dickie V.