BOULDER — Mark Johnson welcomed Colorado radio legend Larry Zimmer back to the Buffaloes radio network Saturday with some lighthearted radio banter, but then got more serious. Zimmer is lucky to be alive, after all, let alone broadcasting his 42nd year of CU football.
"He took ill, scared the daylights out of us, but here he is sitting once again and we've got him back in the broadcast booth," Johnson said as the pregame show for Colorado's home opener with Massachusetts began. "We kept a seat warm."
Zimmer, 79, collapsed at his Lookout Mountain home last October, hours after calling CU's 36-31 home loss to Oregon State.