King Trades Orange for Yellow as ‘Voice’ of Steelers Football – All Otsego

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Cooperstown Central School graduate Rob King is the new “Voice of the Steelers.” (Taylor Ollason/Pittsburgh Steelers)

King Trades Orange for Yellow as ‘Voice’ of Steelers Football

By KRISTIAN CONNOLLY
COOPERSTOWN

No team in National Football League history has more Super Bowl victories than the six earned by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Over the 50 years since the franchise won its first Lombardi Trophy, only two broadcasters served as the “Voice of the Steelers.” Now there will be a third.

Cooperstown’s Rob King is next up in the Steelers’ radio booth following the announcement last month that he’s been chosen to fill the seat vacated by retired Pittsburgh broadcasting icon Bill Hillgrove.

King, a 1983 Cooperstown Central School graduate whose sports media career began when he covered a few CCS basketball games for this paper in the late 1980s, is elated about calling the action for one of the most-storied franchises and fervent fan bases in American sports.

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