"Joe Starkey" is an United States/American sportscaster who has served as the radio play-by-play announcer of California Golden Bears football since 1975. He previously worked as the sports director of KGO-AM/KGO radio in San Francisco, California and play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco 49ers for 20 seasons from 1989 to 2008.

Starkey is most famous for his frenetic call of The Play in the 1982 Big Game (football)/Big Game between Cal and Stanford University/Stanford: "Oh, the band is out on the field!" Starkey nearly lost his voice during and after this event, which he hailed as "the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heartrending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football!"

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It has no impact on me directly, since I'm employed by the team.

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They're going to have to show progress, because if not, you're going to see some blackouts at Monster Park, where the 49ers play.

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