sfgate.com photo: Cal Bears football broadcaster Joe Starkey will be honored by the Golden Bears as Cal will name the broadcast booth he worked in for five decades after him at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley this Saturday

The most nervous person at the Big Game this weekend at Cal Memorial Stadium will not actually be Stanford head David Shaw or Cal head coach Sonny Dykes but it will be Cal Bears broadcaster Joe Starkey who will be honored before the Big Game this Saturday as the Golden Bears will name the broadcast booth that he worked in for five decades after Starkey by the way this is not a send off Joe’s not retiring but Cal wanted to pay tribute to Joe at this time. We all know Joe personally and we get to interact with Joe mostly at A’s and Giants games during the summer because he has more time to speak with the reporters in the press boxes during the summer.

Joe is a very busy man during the football months because of his work with the Bears but he was almost non existent to speak with when he also worked doing San Francisco 49ers games and Cal games both home and on the road. Starkey got sick towards the end of his 49ers days catching a bad chest cold and losing his voice in Buffalo and at that point decided to work just Cal football games. What a Bonanza everyone loves Joe a great football broadcast talent, a very generous man giving his time to fans and to his colleagues and we all look forward to honor him at the Big Game this Saturday.

Michael Duca does the Cal Bears football podcasts and Morris Phillips does the Cal football game recaps and podcasts each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com