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Former Announcer Eells Killed in Car Accident 8/1/2006 Paul Eells, who served as the Voice of the Vanderbilt Commodores from 1967 to 1978 as the Sports Director of WSM, was killed on Monday night in a car accident near Russellville, Ark. Eells, 70, was set to enter his 29th year as Arkansas’ football play-by-play announcer in 2006. The popular sports director for Little Rock’s KATV also was the host of both The Houston Nutt Show and The Stan Heath Show as well as serving as the play-by-play announcer for Razorback basketball on the Arkansas Razorback Sports Network. Joe Fisher, Vanderbilt’s current announcer, was a long-time friend and colleague of Eells. “When I was 16, I went to WSM to try to get into the television business,” Fisher recalls. “Paul was the sports director at the time and was there for two more years before he went to Arkansas. We’ve stayed in contact all these years, my in-laws live near Little Rock and I’d visit him. Paul is probably the only person I’ve ever known that I never heard anyone say a negative thing about.” Fisher says that that before last September’s Vanderbilt-Arkansas football game in Fayetteville Eells came on Vanderbilt pre-game show. “He talked about how much he loved his time in Nashville and with Vanderbilt,” Fisher remembers. Eells was named Arkansas Sportscaster of the Year 11 times and was known by Razorback fans far and wide for his signature phrases “Oh My!” and “Touchdown Arkansas.” He is survived by his wife Vickie, a son Brandon and two daughters from a previous marriage Traci and Jennifer. Funeral arrangements are pending. Listen to Joe Fisher talk about Paul Eells on the 104.5 Wake Up Zone – click here. |
