video released on X<\/a> Tuesday morning, Castricone said it was \u201can incredible nine years\u201d and described it as \u201cmore than I could\u2019ve ever asked for.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\nHe thanked his wife, friends and co-workers at UW. He also thanked the student athletes for allowing him to tell their stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFinally, to you fans, you all make this the greatest setting in college football,\u201d Castricone said. \u201cThank you for welcoming in a kid from a 46-acre pine tree farm in Centerburg, Ohio to the Pacific Northwest and making me one of your own.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The video compilation included clips of Husky fans and voice-over from Castricone\u2019s child. He ended the video by stating he would be a \u201cHusky fan for life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDo me a favor, beat the Ducks,\u201d Castricone said as his closing remark. \u201cGo Dawgs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Buccaneers also released a video Tuesday morning announcing Castricone would be joining the organization.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think about how excited I am for the opportunity,” Castricone said. “It\u2019s not just to call games for a team that is built to continue to have success but it\u2019s also a great place to work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Castricone is replacing Gene Deckerhoff, who retired at the end of last season after serving as the Buccaneer\u2019s play-by-play announcer for 37 seasons. Castricone acknowledged the significance of succeeding Deckerhoff, who Castricone said is \u201cnot just a broadcaster\u201d but \u201can institution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile I\u2019m a different person and a different broadcaster, I\u2019m going to come in with the absolute most passion that I can pour into this job and it\u2019ll be different,\u201d Castricone said. \u201cThe heart on the sleeve will be beating just as intently.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Castricone, who spent the last nine years broadcasting Husky football and men’s basketball games, will leave Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30953,131761,110,135,137,136,131762],"class_list":["post-317024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-huskies","tag-husky-basketball","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-washington-huskies-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}