“The very first year of the franchise, drafted by the team. I was a bonus pick in the second round,” Raible said. And I’m sure John Schneider would look at that today and say, wow, we drafted him a little high.”
Raible would go on to play six seasons for the Hawks before hanging up his cleats to try a new route.
“I retired from the Seahawks because of the opportunity to get into radio and television.”
Mentored by long-time Seahawks radio voice Pete Gross, Raible became the team’s color analyst in 1982 and took over play-by-play duties full-time in 2004. It’s a roll that starts long before kickoff.
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