The Cleveland Browns have named Andrew Siciliano to handle the play by play duties on the team's radio broadcast for the 2024 season. The news comes off the heels of Jim Donovan announcing his retirement. Donovan is currently battling cancer and wrote a heartfelt letter to fans, noting that he needed to focus all of his energy on this latest battle for his health.
Siciliano, a former host on NFL Network, grew up a Browns fan in Northeast Ohio. He's never hidden that fact throughout his broadcast career and routinely done guest spots on local radio to talk about the team as both a fan as well as an analyst. Siciliano was one of a group of people who called games for Donovan in 2024 when he was undergoing treatment for cancer. After getting to call the Browns game against the San Francisco 49ers last year, Siciliano filled in as the host on Rich Eisen's radio show and discussed the team and his experience calling the game, reliving the final call of the game.
Siciliano called the opportunity to call a Browns game a childhood dream. So while the circumstances are once again not what anyone would want, since Jim Donovan has been the radio voice of the team since the team returned in 1999. Donovan has been nothing short of spectacular in that role. For many fans, after attending the game or watching it on TV, they would go listen to Donovan call the biggest moments of the game. The Browns organization starting producing videos to make it easier for fans to find Donovan and see his reactions in the booth.
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