The NFL is saddened by the death of an iconic "Sunday Night Football" announcer this week. While NBC is the current home of the biggest NFL game of the week, it used to reside on ESPN. For nearly 20 years,

Mike Patrick, the long-time play-by-play announcer for ESPN's Sunday Night Football, has died. He was 80. A native of Clarksburg, West Virginia, Patrick handled the NFL Sunday night game for 18 years,

He did the cable network’s play-by-play for college basketball, football and baseball games, but his most important assignment was “Sunday Night Football.”