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Dec 15, 1992 · ``My first game was like my last game with him,' said Billy Packer, college basketball analyst who helped form the popular ``Thacker and Packer' broadcast duo for ACC games in the 1970s....
Jan 27, 2023 · That would be Jim Thacker and Billy Packer, the voices of the ACC’s syndicated weekly basketball broadcasts. Their commentary, along with the catchy “Sail with the Pilot” jingle of commercial sponsor Jefferson Pilot, became the soundtrack of a generation. Not to mention the golden age of ACC basketball.
Packer's broadcast teammates included Curt Gowdy, Jim Thacker, Dick Enberg, Al McGuire, Gary Bender, and Brent Musburger. From 1991 to 2008 he worked alongside Jim Nantz and Verne Lundquist (usually during pre- Championship Week while Nantz was covering the NFL and/or golf).
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- 1972–2008
- Sports commentator
- Wake Forest University
Jan 27, 2023 · “Bones” McKinney, Billy Packer & Jim Thacker, with the legendary C.D. Chesley. Six decades later…their footsteps are the standard for all of us who cover and care for the conference on TV...
Jan 28, 2023 · Remembering Billy Packer: Jim Nantz and more on working with the longtime voice of the Final Four - The Athletic. By Richard Deitsch. Jan 28, 2023. 55. Jim Nantz first met Billy Packer...
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Jan 27, 2023 · Legendary ACC Basketball and CBS College Basketball announcer Billy Packer gone at age 82:Jim Thacker and Billy Packer had us all watching ACC Basketball games - Greensboro Sports. Posted on January 27, 2023 by Andy Durham.
Jan 27, 2023 · Packer, who died Thursday night at 82, came up in the greatest era of the ACC. After helping Wake Forest to the Final Four and working as an assistant coach there, he was on television by age 31, forming a legendary Raycom partnership with Jim Thacker for decades.
