Gene Deckerhoff, the voice of the Seminoles for football and basketball, points to someone in the crowd on Saturday during the Springtime Tallahassee Parade. Deckerhoff was the Grand Marshall.

Gene Deckerhoff has also been the play-by-play voice for the Tampa Bay Bucs since 1989 and continues that role this season.

Gene Deckerhoff was the play-by-play voice for Florida State in 1989, then added the same duties with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and he's enjoyed every moment of the grind.

Gene Deckerhoff retired as the 'voice of the Seminoles' last month after being in the role for 43 years.

Gene Deckerhoff built a Hall of Fame broadcasting career as the radio voice of Florida State athletics for 43 years.

“Cool news, and not a surprise at all: the great Gene Deckerhoff says he will be back on the call for Bucs radio for the team’s 50th season — his 37th — in 2025.” ...

Deckerhoff, 64, has been the Seminoles' play-by-play announcer on radio for all except three of Bowden's 34 seasons. Deckerhoff started hosting Bowden's TV show in 1981.

Legendary Florida State radio broadcaster Gene Deckerhoff, known as “The Voice of the Seminoles”, will retire after 43 years following the Seminoles' spring game on April 9. “It has been a ...

Whenever Gene Deckerhoff decides it's time for one of the legendary play-by-play voices in sports to stop talking into a microphone, he might well be the last of the true radio Ironmen. Vin Scully … ...

And his delivery is great," Deckerhoff said. "And William (Floyd, color analyst) and I get together. You have to miss it, but this has given Ann (wife) and I time to do other things.

Bowden died last August at age 91 from pancreatic cancer. Deckerhoff has shared the football booth with color analyst — and former FSU and NFL fullback — William Floyd since 2008.

Deckerhoff — the voice of FSU football and men's basketball on radio broadcasts across the state — announced his retirement Friday after nearly 50 years covering the Seminoles.