SALT LAKE CITY — As a play-by-play announcer, you know you made an impact on a lot of people when fans from your archrival respect you.
Such was the case for Paul James, who passed away at age 87 on Saturday after a longtime battle with an illness.
Here’s one of many classy reactions to the news that a Utah sports legend had passed on.
“Not a BYU fan. Never was a BYU fan,” diehard University of Utah fan @UteBeliever wrote on Twitter. But growing up in Utah in the late 70s, 80s and 90s, he and (Bill) Marcroft were the soundtrack to my young sports imagination.