MISCmedia is dedicated today to Bob Blackburn, the original voice of the Seattle Supersonics, who passed on today at age 83. He’d outlived the team that had fired him in the early 1990s, then ceremonially retired his microphone. Survivors include son Bob Jr., who performed in several Seattle rock bands as well as serving as his dad’s broadcast assistant. (He’s now in Florida and producing “podcast” Internet radio shows.)

Let’s close this with Blackburn pere‘s longtime closing line to his KIRO-AM sports reports:

This is Bob Blackburn, reminding you that sportsmanship is a part of our American tradition. Be a good sport, whatever you do. So long.