You’re going to hear and read a lot of wonderful things over the next couple of days about Gil Santos, the legendary play-by-play voice of the Patriots who passed away on Thursday.
But how about this: Let’s relay a comment that Gil himself made to fellow broadcaster Dale Arnold during the 1990 season. After you read what the veteran voice of the Patriots said to the rookie voice of the Patriots, I guarantee you’ll be coming up with your own superlatives to describe Gil.
Arnold, a Maine native who in his earlier days had listened to Gil doing Patriots games, had wound up in the Foxboro Stadium broadcast booth because WBZ had lost the radio rights to the old WHDH.