October 30, 1999
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Baltimore, MD Sun, October 31, 1999
By: Peter Baker
If it’s Sunday afternoon in the fall and Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw is on the tube, then the program must be football, right?
Wrong.
Next Sunday, (Joe Buck, Emmy – winning Major League Baseball play-by-play announcer) will be calling play-by-play live from the final round of the $3.6 million Ranger M1 Millennium bass fishing tournament at Florida’s Cypress Gardens.
“Even though competitive bass fishing had been around since the 1960’s, the time was right to take the sport to the next level with respect to the marketing of it and building a national awareness of it,” said Irwin L. Jacobs, Chairman of Operation Bass Inc. and owner of Ranger Boats.