Gotta See It: Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick’s HBO special

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Much deserving of an HBO spotlight, hockey broadcaster extraordinaire Mike “Doc” Emrick was the subject of this excellent Real Sports feature.

Watch in full here:

The 14-minute profile traces the 69-year-old voice of the NHL on NBC from his humble beginnings in the booth to calling Stanley Cup finals and Olympic gold medal games.

“I guess I wanted a fun job, and this has always been a fun job for me,” Emrick tells the network. “If you want something bad enough, you just go after it.”

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Though Emrick is arguably the greatest wordsmith to call the game, perhaps this profile’s best quote comes from a colleague of his, Al Michaels.

“You name it, Doc could do it,” says Michaels. “If you had a cockroach race in your basement, he’d bring it to life for you.”

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