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Philly Sports Media Icon Ray Didinger Retires After 53 Years 메이저사이트
  Throughout the end of the week, Pro Football Hall of Fame sports essayist and telecaster Ray Didinger said two words live on the radio he had never articulated in his 53-year vocation. He said"'goodbye."

In a mournful goodbye Sunday, he told audience members of Philadelphia sports talk station WIP they had assisted him with living his fantasy.

"Your enthusiasm as the best games city in America lifted my words and gave them reverberation. It has been a delight and an honor," he said. "Your looks of appreciation and backing have implied so a lot, and I thank you with everything that is in me. I wish you and your families wellbeing, satisfaction, and all the more Super Bowl marches. Also, trust me, I will see you there."

Furthermore, very much like that, perhaps the best game recorders Philadelphia has at any point known — one of a handful of the to cover the Flyers, 76ers, Phillies, and the Eagles' public titles — moved to retirement, away from the press box with an eye on turning into an ordinary observer.

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Didinger is a neighborhood fellow from Folsom, Delaware County, who grew up cherishing football. After moving on from Temple University, he spent a year as an overall task journalist for the Delaware County Times. He then, at that point, ventured foot into a field he was tailor-made for: sports detailing.

He covered the National Football League for The Philadelphia Bulletin and The Philadelphia Daily News for over 25 years.

His bits of knowledge and suppositions about Philadelphia sports — the groups, players, initiative, and fans — acquired him a spot on the journalists' honor roll in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

In a plunk down discussion with WHYY's Morning Edition have, Jennifer Lynn, Didinger read from an article in the Bucks County Herald that read: "In the event that you're a good 'ol fashioned Philadelphia avid supporter, you're probably going to realize the name Ray Didinger nearly as well as your own, and have without a doubt come to esteem his bits of knowledge and sentiments about the Philadelphia sports scene."

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Lynn asked him: "Do you esteem your bits of knowledge and assessments about the Philadelphia sports scene?

Didinger joked, "Every so often more than others."

Over 53 years, Didinger's work has been exhibited across various stages: papers, books, radio, and TV. He even composed a play called "Tommy and Me." It's the tale of Tommy McDonald, the incomparable Philadelphia Eagles wide collector, whom Didinger met when he was a 10-year-old fan and McDonald was an Eagles freshman. The play recounts the narrative of their kinship that created and endured forever, and at last ended up with the two of them remaining on the means of the Hall of Fame.

Didinger portrays his 10-year-old self as an inquisitive, insatiable peruser.

"Something I've learned after some time is there's an unbalanced number of individuals who are journalists who are just kids. I was your exemplary lone youngster. All that I read, all that I consumed includes sports somehow. What's more, football was my number one game, and Tommy McDonald was my #1 player."

This sports utilization made him a genuine Philly avid supporter.

"The most often posed inquiry for me is, how could you make that progress from the stands to the press box, you know, and did you out of nowhere when you strolled into the press box entryway, did you leave your being a fan holding tight the door handle? Better believe it, I sort of did, on the grounds that I burned through one year as a journalist for the Delaware County Times. So I attempted to approach going to Franklin Field to cover an Eagles game the same way I strolled in the media town hall to cover a preliminary. I comprehended I was there as a correspondent and I had something important to take care of."

Didinger's inclusion of Super Bowl LII in which the Philadelphia Eagles beat the New England Patriots 41-33 was a merry time for this fan and essayist.