Greg Papa

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Greg Papa is a sports broadcaster in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing on-air coverage of most professional sports franchises in the market in recent years, including the Oakland Raiders, Oakland Athletics, Golden State Warriors, and San Francisco Giants. His work with the Raiders alongside former coach Tom Flores is very much in the tradition of his predecessor Bill King. Like King, his touchdown calls are punctuated by '"TOUCHDOWN, RRRRAID-ERS!!!"'

Papa's best calls to date arguably are Tyrone Wheatley's 26-yard run in the Raiders 1999 finale v. the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium ('Wheatley won't go down!!!') along with describing the events during the ^[1]'Tuck Rule' game, when the Raiders seemingly had won a 2001 playoff game in a blinding blizzard after forcing a late fumble, only to see referee Walt Coleman reverse the call after consulting instant replay. The New England Patriots went on to win the historic, controversial contest in overtime.

When Dave Flemming's microphone went dead when the ball was in the air for what turned out to be Barry Bonds' 715th career home run on May 28, 2006, Papa took over the broadcast, apologized to listeners, and explained what happened on the field.

Papa also appears regularly on network broadcasts.