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I remember when we first got cable and was so excited to get ESPN. I would get up extra early before the sun came up on Thursday morning to watch the Canadian Football League. Wow, have times changed. An announcer that bring you games 7 days a week can be found everywhere. Sometimes we forget how much it to put on these random games on Tuesday night from Vandy. This week, I wanted to take a step back and look at what goes into the triple header broadcasts we see on TV on Saturdays. Mike Morgan is one of the hardest working guys in the business who pops up on my TV a couple times a week, but what happens in between his game on Wed and his game on Sat. This week he takes us off the air. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show! Follow Mike Morgan on Twitter: @MorganOnAir

This week, we go outside the box on the podcast and invite Rafa Hernandez Brito, the play by play voice of the Cleveland Cavs en Espaniol. We discuss the stylistic differences between English and Spanish announcers and how he went from an engineering degree at BU to the NBA. Being with the Cavs, you know he's also got some Lebron James stories. He has called the World Series, the NBA Finals, and the Super Bowl and this week, he goes "Off The Air." Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show! Follow Rafa El Alcalde on Twitter: @ElalcaldeRafa

This week, we go "Off The Air" with Mike Inglis, the voice of the Miami Heat. As a kid in Canada, he dreamed of playing at Madison Garden on the ice but with most of us, life takes you another way. The original sports talk show host in Canada now calls Sunny Miami home. So how did he get from north of border to South Beach? Listen to find out! Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show! Follow Mike Inglis on Twitter: @MikeInglisHEAT

What is more difficult: perfecting something or blaze the trail for others to follow? The answer is BOTH! That's exactly what radio broadcasters like Dave Sims did at the beginning of WFAN in New York City. While that was going on, there was a guy on the West Coast named Hacksaw that made people stay on hold, if you could even get through on the phone to call him, or sit in the parking lot for an extra ten minutes to hear his HEADLINES because you couldn’t miss what he had to say. While that is a feat for his weekday show, On the weekends he was also able to make you stand in cheer calling the games of your favorite team, and then come back on Monday and share stores from the game, Now that is something. Lee Hacksaw Hamilton is an innovator in sports broadcasting. One of the first BIG STARS in sports talk radio while at the same time calling NFL games each weekend. This week we sit down with someone who helped inspire me into getting in to Sports Radio. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show!

Pick a side. Army or Navy? 364 days a year they are brothers in arms defending our nation and keeping us free. One day a year they compete on the gridiron for bragging rights that carry on for the entire year. As the Army Corps of Cadets and the Brigade of Midshipman march into the stadium, the best and the brightest our nation has to offer take center stage on the college football landscape. All year long, they work hard to Beat Army or Beat Navy. This week, we salute The US Military Academy and the US Naval Academy by spotlighting the Voices of Army and Navy Football. Rich Demarco is the Voice of the Black Knight Football Team of Army and Pete Medhurst calls games for all the ships at sea for the Navy Midshipmen. Their audience is truly worldwide as many of the alumni from both academies are serving in far flung locations across the globe. Their broadcasts are heard in military bases, aircraft carriers as well as the halls of the Pentagon. The Army Navy game has been a one-sided affair in recent years with Navy winning 13 games in a row. This year, the Mids are lead by Keenan Reynolds, who look for number 14. On the Army side, they are ready to begin a streak of their own, and you know what they say about streaks they are made to be broken. Lets go Off The Air with the Voices of Army and Navy Football. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show!

The Clemson Tigers are riding high atop the college football landscape this season and leading the charge is the Voice of the Tigers, Don Munson. How did Don go from the student radio station at Appalachian State being around Mack Brown to being around Dabo Sweeney and the Clemson Tigers? What influence does social media have? How important are relationships on and off the air? How should you treat the person getting you coffee on an airplane. We answer all those questions Off The Air this week with Don Munson. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show! Follow Don Munson on Twitter: @WDonaldMunson

There are dreams jobs that all of us dream about, but when that dream job is in your hometown, you're the luckiest man in the world. This week, we meet a man who grew up in Southern California and is now the Voice of the University of Southern California. Pete Arbogast has one of those classic voices that ring out when you are driving down the Santa Ana Freeway in traffic. He is a fixture in Los Angeles that has brought sports to the Southland for decades. This week, Pete goes "Off The Air." Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show!

When a team goes from worst to first, it's an incredible run for everyone involved, especially the fans. To be able to bring that run to fans is a special treat that all broadcasters hope for before the season begins. When you have long suffering fans who have to go back decades to talk about the last winner they had on the field, it's really something to behold. Steve Stewart from the Kansas City Royals has been on a two year run of sharing the exciting action of championship baseball with long suffering Royals fans as they get back to the top of the heap in Major League Baseball. The last time the Royals experienced a World Series championship was in the days of George Brett, Frank White, and Bret Saberhagen in 1985. Stewart helped bring all the excitement of the Royals' championship to fans everywhere and now he shares his stories Off The Air. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show!

Many broadcasters have a special relationship with their audience. Many play by play men have famous and powerful fans and alumni that are passionate about their teams while others might have a national leader or two that hang on their every word in the fourth quarter. There might be a few that have such a huge audience that stretches from coast to coast, but few have men and women waking up in the middle of the night for kickoff in some far away land. There aren’t many that have a special collection of fans that follow Rich DeMarco’s broadcasts of the Army Black Knights. Every Saturday, Rich calls the action for Army Football for the fans of the USMA that includes the Army’s top brass and the men and women keeping our nation safe serving across the world. Army Football is special place for out nations best and brightest. While the Army football team battles each weekend to sing second, this is a small part of what their world is all about. Soon after they take off their football helmets, they will soon put on other helmets as their put themselves in harms way as the leaders of the US Army. They are special people and it takes a special broadcaster to call their games. Lets go off the air with Rich DeMarco the voice of Army Football. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show! To follow Rich DeMarco on Twitter: @richdemarco

Long before WFAN took the air in New York and newspaper writers starting appearing on TV and Radio, Dave Sims was trading in his typewriter for a microphone. Today, he is the voice on Seattle Mariners on Root Sports bringing Major League Baseball to fans throughout the Northwest. Dave has called games for ESPN, Westwood One, and the NCAA Basketball Network. Noted for his energy on the air, he is one of the best wordsmiths in the business. Mariner’s fans have seen him on the air for the last decade and tune in everyday to get a chance to see Dave in his trademark hat collection he wears on the air. Sit back, relax, and lets go off the air with Dave Sims. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show! To follow Dave Sims on Twitter: @TheDaveSimsShow

Our guest this week "Off the Air" is ESPN/San Francisco Giants Broadcaster Dave Flemming. If you took Dave's national work calling College Football and Basketball he would be considered of the countries top play by play men, but when add in his work on ESPN MLB package his resume he has a voice known to millions of sports fans across the nation. Add in his work as an announcer with the San Francisco Giants, you really get a chance to see why "Flem" is such a treat to listen to hearing him interact with Jon Miller and Kruk and Kuip on TV and radio. The Giants quartet has been called one of the best in baseball calling a entertaining colorful and insightful game that have made them rock stars during this run of three World Series crowns this decade. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show! To follow Dave Flemming on Twitter: @FlemmingDave

Tim Roye is the radio voice of the World Champion Golden State Warriors. Getting a chance to call an NBA Championship for Roye was a well deserved honor after calling games for the Kings and Warriors through their lean years. Starting in minor league hockey, he worked his way up the ladder to the NBA. Tim and I both worked in the San Francisco Bay Area where the legendary Bill King was bigger than life and a huge influence to both Tim and I. We talk about Bill, the Warriors, when he knew he wanted to go into broadcasting, and so much more "Off The Air." Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show! To follow Tim Roye on Twitter: @warriorsvox

One of the most well respected play by play men in the NHL, Rick Peckham is entering his 20th season as the long time television voice of the Tampa Bay Lightning. The rest of America also gets to hear him as one of the play by play men for the NHL on NBC throughout the season as well. With the sport of hockey growing into Florida and the West Coast, he has seen this sport grow from something that was once considered only a "Canadian sport" into one of the "Big 4" in the sports world alongside the NFL, MLB, and the NBA. Before his time with the Lightning, Rick also called games for the legendary Hartford Whalers and he shares those stories and more this week "Off The Air." Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show! To follow Rick and the Tampa Bay Lightning on Twitter: @TBLightning

College football stadiums are small nation states during Saturday's during the season. Like all nation states, there is a single voice that unites all its followers. In Norman, Oklahoma, that voice follows some pretty footsteps that include Walter Cronkite and Curt Gowdy. Five seasons ago, Bob Berry Sr. stepped away from the mic and Toby Rowland stepped into that very special roll of calling games for the Oklahoma Sooners. Rich met Toby years before working as a sideline reporter and he was impressive in his work and his friendly manner. His voice has become the soundtrack of fall football for Sooner fans near and far. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher and don't forget to rate and review the show! To follow Toby Rowland on Twitter: @TRowOU

FOX Sports broadcaster Tim Brando joins us this week "Off The Air." For my money, Tim is the voice of college football. After years on ESPN and CBS, Tim is calling games on FOX Sports. Rich got a chance to cover the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana and one of the highlights was getting to meet Tim in his hometown during bowl week. He is one of the good guys in broadcasting and that's why when we started kicking around names of guests we wanted to have on the podcast Brando was one of the first names we put on the list. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich. Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher

Howard David is one of the most recognizable voices in broadcasting. Having called games for the Jets, the Dolphins, and nationally on Monday Night Football, I was lucky enough to work with him as a sideline reporter for Sports USA’s NFL doubleheader for a few years. He has called games in the NBA for the Boston Celtics and done everything else under the sun including sports talk and calling the World Series of Poker on Sirius XM. Traveling around the country, there isn’t a city press box in America where he doesn’t know someone. That’s why I am happy to have Howard David on this weeks podcast. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich. Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher

This week features St Louis Cardinals' announcer John Rooney. John has called Cards games for the last decade, before that we was with the Chicago White Sox. He has been a fixture at some of the biggest sporting events including the Final Four. His voice is part of the landscape of summer for Cardinals nations for folks around the nation that catch the Red Birds in KMOX one of the most powerful signals in the country. I was lucky enough to work with John on NFL broadcasts for years and we have become very best of friends ever since. You will enjoy going "Off The Air" with John Rooney. Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich. Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher

This week's edition of “Off The Air with Rich Herrera" features the voice of the San Francisco 49ers, Ted Robinson. Ted has called MLB and NFL games but might be just as known for his work calling tennis along side John McEnroe. We will discuss where Ted got his start working for the legendary owner of the Oakland A’s Charlie O Finley. We will also discuss the University of Notre Dame where Ted went to school and was on the field when Rudy made his big play for the Irish. Ted had called games all over the world covering the Olympics and we will talk about how he got his first assignment that has had him at the pool, skating rinks and every where in between. Ted is a busy man these days calling games on Saturday for the PAC 12 Network and the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday and today he sits down and goes "Off The Air With Rich Herrera." Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter: @RBIrich. Follow Ted Robinson on Twitter: @tedjrobinson Subscribe to Off The Air with Rich Herrera on iTunes and Stitcher

The debut edition of “Off The Air” with Rich Herrera features the voice of the University of Alabama and NASCAR, Eli Gold. Eli has been a fixture around the south with his calling of Tide Football and NASCAR. This week, we get to go behind the scenes with Eli and learn more about the man behind the voice that brings the games to so many people around the country. We will explore Eli’s connection with another great cross sectional voice Mel Allen, who came from Alabama and called games in New York for so many years. We will also talk with Eli about one of the most memorable games in college football this century that made history as the Iron Bowl ended with a missed field goal that sent The Tide’s arch rival Auburn to victory. Gold has called games in the NHL and the NFL and we will learn where he got his start on this edition of "Off the Air." Follow Rich Herrera on Twitter for show updates and to find out where you can find him on your radio: @RBIrich. Follow Eli Gold on Twitter: @EliGoldBama