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Green Bay Packers radio announcer Jim Irwin shakes hands with fans in the stands as he walks around the field during halftime of the game between the Packers and Tennessee Oilers on Dec. 20, 1998, in Green Bay. Irwin retired at the end of the 1998 season.
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Jim Irwin, the voice of the Green Bay Packers for three decades, died Sunday of metastatic cancer, his wife, Gloria Irwin, said Monday.
Jim Irwin worked as a color analyst for Packers games on WTMJ-AM (620) from 1969 until 1975 and worked as a play-by-play announcer until he and his longtime on-air partner Max McGee retired at the end of the 1998 season. He also called Milwaukee Bucks and Wisconsin Badgers games and served as a fill-in radio voice for Milwaukee Brewers games.
Irwin was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame and was recognized as the Wisconsin sports Announcer of the Year 10 times. He's in the Wisconsin Broadcasting Association Hall of Fame.
Irwin lived in southern California. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, according to WTMJ. In an interview last year, Irwin told WTMJ that he wore his Super Bowl XXXI ring as a good-luck charm during this year's Super Bowl XLV game.
"Every time there would be a close play, which started with my grandson, he ran over and started rubbing the ring," Irwin told WTMJ. "Well by the time we got to the fourth quarter and the last series by the Steelers, everybody was rubbing the ring."
A full obituary will appear later on JSOnline and in tomorrow's Journal Sentinel
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