OMG, that’s the funniest thing I’ll hear all day. Thanks!

Ed Podolak is the only Hawkeye Football Color Analyst that I have known in my lifetime. It’s going to be strange without him.
I was only like 7 when that Marv Cook thing happened, but for some reason I still remember listening to Zabel and Eddie after that game. I swear (although it could have been another time we beat tOSU in the "shoe") that Zabel came back from commercial and said that the Ohio State Police were trying to get into the press box to arrest Ed Podolak for breaking the noise ordinance in a Columbus, OH press box. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Not that it actually happened, of course, but that Zabel said it.
Also, are there any rumors to who might be stepping in?

Here is the link to Hlas’s article that ran in the Gazette today

Fast Eddie has definitely had some interesting friends. Hunter S Thompson, Jimmy Buffett, and (it’s been a long night and I hate the fucking) Eagles. It’s pretty obvious that Ed was a guy who people liked to be around. I certainly would drop whatever i was doing at the moment for the opportunity to listen to him tell stories over a few coldbeers.

I found this anecdote about how he met Jimmy Buffett to be amusing:

As Podolak describes: After I retired, I was at a bar in Aspen (Colo.) and Jimmy’s manager came up to me and said, Ed, if I’m offending you in any way let me know, but Jimmy Buffett is a big fan of yours because of the Miami game and following your career after that. We’re playing softball this afternoon, and if you’d like, he’d love to have you join us.’ Little did he know that Jimmy’s song, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes’ was my anthem when I was quitting football. I used to drive around in my car with the top down, singing, If it suddenly ended tomorrow, I could somehow adjust to the fall.’ I knew all the words to Jimmy’s songs.

Godspeed, Easy Eddie.