They are the familiar voices in which a fan can find the comforts of home.
For nearly 30 years Eli Gold has been the radio play-by-play man for Alabama football. For even longer than that, Bob Rondeau has been describing Washington football games on the radio.
A transplanted New Yorker and hockey guy in the South. A former newsman who got hooked on college sports in Washington.
Gold and Rondeau have chronicled the ups and downs, the good and the bad, of the Crimson Tide and Huskies, respectively, for the last three decades.