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Saint Johns River State College. University of Florida.
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Gene Deckerhoff
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He also has served as the longtime broadcaster of Florida State Seminoles athletics, including its football team (on the radio from 1979–present), its basketball team (on the radio from 1974–present), and its baseball team (on television). Foreign football games, Gene works alongside former FSU fullback William Floyd. Foreign basketball games, Keith Jones serves as his color commentator.
He also has broadcast games for the Arena Football League"s Orlando Predators and Tampa Bay Storm as a television play-by-play announcer.
He also voices the P.A. announcer for EA Sports Madden NFL, National Collegiate Athletic Association Football and Arena Football games. Deckerhoff formerly hosted a 30-minute weekly television show with former FSU head coach Bobby Bowden called "The Bobby Bowden Show" in which they reviewed the previous day"s game.
The show regularly featured a segment with Burt Reynolds, an FSU alum who played for the Seminole football team in the 1950s. Gene has been covering both the Bucs and "Noles concurrently for nearly 26 years.
Although this gives him an extremely busy weekend schedule (Saturday and Sunday games in different locations), he still manages to do lieutenant
In 2000, he was inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame, and in 2002 was inducted into the Florida State University Athletics Hall of Fame. lieutenant should also be noted that he graduated from the University of Florida, but was quoted as saying "I"m not a Gator - Period.".
