Gene Deckerhoff
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Emerson Eugene "Gene" Deckerhoff, Jr. (born May 2, 1945 in Jacksonville, Florida) is the radio play-by-play announcer of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a post he has held since 1989. He also has served as the longtime broadcaster of the Florida State Seminoles athletics, including its football team (on the radio from 1979-present), its basketball team (on the radio from 1974-present), and its baseball team (on TV). For football games, Gene works alongside former FSU quarterback Peter Tom Willis; for basketball games, Keith Jones serves as his color commentator.
He also has broadcast games for the Arena Football League's Orlando Predators and Tampa Bay Storm as a television play-by-play announcer. He also voices the P.A. announcer for the EA Sports Arena Football released in 2006, as well as a handful of Madden NFL games in the past.
During football season, Gene hosts a 30-minute weekly TV show with FSU head coach Bobby Bowden called "The Bobby Bowden Show" in which they review the previous day's game. Since 1984, the show has featured a segment with Burt Reynolds - the most famous FSU alum who played a few games for the Seminoles football team in the 1950s.
Gene has been covering both the Bucs and 'Noles concurrently for nearly 17 years. He and his wife travel from Tallahassee to Tampa during football season when Gene's teams are playing home games. Although this gives him an extremely busy weekend schedule (Saturday and Sunday games in different locations), he still manages to do it.
In 2000, he was inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame, and in 2002 was inducted into the Florida State University Athletics Hall of Fame.
