Steve Raible

Steve Raible
Position (s): Wide Receiver	Jersey number (s): 83
born June 2, 1954 in Louisville
Career information
Active : 1976 - 1981
NFL Draft : 1976 / Round: 2 / Pick: 59
College : Georgia Tech
Teams
Seattle Seahawks (1976-1981)
Career statistics
Pass receptions	68
Gaining space after receiving your passport	1,017 yards
Touchdowns	3
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards
No notable successes

Steven Carl Raible (born June 2, 1954 in Louisville ) is an American presenter , author and former American football player . He played on the position of wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League (NFL).

Football career

He first played football at Trinity High School, where he was inducted into the local hall of fame in 1993, and then went to the Georgia Institute of Technology , where he played college football . After graduating there, he went to the NFL Draft in 1976 , where he was selected by the Seattle Seahawks as the 31st player of the second round (59th overall). There he played six seasons until 1981 and only missed one game.

Moderator career

After finishing his playing career, Raible became a sports reporter for the local channel KIRO-TV and shared the job as co-presenter for the news. Since 2004 he has been a radio commentator for the Seahawks games (the "voice of the Seahawks") for the radio station KIRO 7, where he is best known for his catchwords "Are you kidding me ?!" and "Holy catfish!" . Raible also moderates TV broadcasts of speedboat races and air shows. In early 2020, he announced his retirement from Kiro 7 but remains a commentator on the Seahawks games.

He has received five Northwest Emmy Awards in his career as a news presenter , including two for Best Presenter.

Works

• Steve Raible and Mike Sando: Tales from the Seattle Seahawks Sideline: A Collection of the Greatest Seahawks Stories Ever Told. Skyhorse Publishing Inc., New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-61321-385-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steve Raible. Retrieved November 12, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Percy Allen: Voices of the Game | Double duty: Steve Raible calls news and sports. Seattle Times , July 27, 2009, accessed November 12, 2015 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} NFL Films Presents: Steve Raible. (Video) Retrieved November 12, 2015 . 
4. ^ A message from Steve Raible. In: kiro7.com. KIRO, accessed February 27, 2020 (American English). 
5. ↑ Steve Raible. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 16, 2015 ; accessed on November 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.