Big congrats to Dolph! Couldn't imagine another voice for Iowa athletics. Happy to see him being honored like this.
OT: New Press Box at the Field of Dreams to be named after Gary Dolphin
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Fran's specialty is ending dreams.
They'd have to rename it "Field of Screams" if Fran attended!
I've listened to enough of the Iowa opponents through recent years to know that Dolph is nowadays unlistenable by comparison.
I sometimes am forced to do the radio thing during the fall, and having some sort of gamecast pulled up is a must. Otherwise a good half the plays I wouldn't know what actually happened.
Dolph is a Dubuque guy,thru and thru.
Local banker, restauranteur ect.
Dyersville is a western burb of Dubuque.
Makes sense.
As for his work....a challenging listen.
Dolph will find a way to mispronounce Field of Dreams.Lmfao…
Baseball is probably more Dolph’s speed for commentating TBH. The listener still wouldn’t know what’s going on most of the time, but at least in baseball it’s not as important from minute to minute.
Restaurateur? He's a minority owner of a bar that doesn't serve food that has his name on it basically to collect royalties. He's never been hands on with that place through its various majority owners. Dyersville is in no way a suburb of Dubuque, and he's actually from Cascade which is down the road from Dyersville. He did however work a bank branch in Dubuque throughout its buyouts that became US Bank.
Oh I'm not saying he doesn't go there, Dolph is a huge partier, I'm just saying the place is a bar not a restaurant, and he's essentially a completely silent partner in the business. I guess as someone who was very involved in that industry once and is still acquainted with many tavern owners and actual restaurateurs, it bugs me when people make no distinction between having your name on something and actually being involved in the business. That space already was a bar, changing it to Dolph's was just a rebranding.