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Career
Patrick began his broadcasting career in the fall of 1966 at WVSC-Radio in Somerset, Pennsylvania In 1970, he was named Sports Director at WJXT-television in Jacksonville, Florida, where he provided play-by-play for Jacksonville Sharks" World Football League telecasts (1973-1974). He also called Jacksonville University basketball games on both radio and television
Since 1975, he has worked for WJLA-television, Jefferson-Pilot and Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, where he is best known for his role as play-by-play announcer on the network"s Sunday Night Football with Paul Maguire and Joe Theismann telecasts from 1987–2005.
He was briefly replaced in 2004 by Pat Summerall, while Patrick recovered from heart bypass surgery. Other Entertainment and Sports Programming Network assignments
He has also called college football, men"s and women"s college basketball, and the College World Series for the network, as well as several NFL playoff games for American Broadcasting Company Sports while the network held the Monday Night Football television package.
In 2006, Patrick became the lead play-by-play announcer for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network College Football Primetime along with Todd Blackledge and field reporter Holly Rowe. In July 2009, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network announced that Patrick will be teamed with former SMU running back Craig James and Heather Cox on a Saturday Entertainment and Sports Programming Network on American Broadcasting Company college football announcing team for the 2009 College Football Season.
In addition, Patrick called the National Collegiate Athletic Association Women"s Division I Basketball Championship from 1996 through 2009 and the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska since 2003.
Non Entertainment and Sports Programming Network-related assignments
Mike also did the play-by-play of Atlantic Coast Conference Football and Basketball games for Jefferson-Pilot (now Lincoln Financial Sports) between 1984 and 1986. Mike is the play-by-play man for Most Valuable Player 06: National Collegiate Athletic Association Baseball as well as Most Valuable Player 07: National Collegiate Athletic Association Baseball. Mike does some play-by-play for the Cleveland Browns preseason football games.
He previously called pre-season games for the Washington Redskins.
