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Brian Hofmann
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Digital Director at NBC4i.com in Columbus, Ohio | Longtime journalist. Father of four. I'm always busy | Go Herd
I don't sleep, I dream
July 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This is my hometown! I'm watching Glenn Wilson. I remember him in later years. But I was too young for Sam Slater. I just know the name
January 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
From those I experienced

NHL: Doug MacLean
NFL: Matt Millen

And that's not a knock on either as a person. But the vibe, the results during those years, so hard on a fan.
January 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
You and Todd are my go-to during yardwork, but it's always you who's the reason my wife asks me why I'm laughing so hard when raking leaves
November 26, 2024 at 3:34 PM
When he retired, it opened the way for my first full-time role.

Anniversaries of tragedies remind us not only of the lives lost but of those who continued and all they got to accomplish that the others never did.

Miss you, LC.

#WeAreMarshall #75Week
November 14, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Instead, he became one of the many could-haves from that tragedy, like Ken Griffey Sr. (it's true) -- yet something rarely acknowledged. His life didn't end. LC continued telling stories and developing others in the craft (me included). He left behind children and grandchildren.
November 14, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Except for a swap. By driving, the other writer could drop off his wife at his in-laws, cover the game and get her on the way back. He was never going to be on that plane. Lowell would have flown.
November 14, 2024 at 2:21 PM
LC was humble, hard-working and skilled, and under a different yet probable set of circumstances, he could have been a victim of the Marshall plane crash.

In 1970, he and another writer rotated going to the away football games, and the East Carolina game was his --
November 14, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Unlike his wonderfully warm and bombastic contemporary, Ernie Salvatore, a New England transplant who hovered over the West Virginia sports scene for decades and was portrayed by an actor in the We Are Marshall movie, LC was Appalachian to the core.
November 14, 2024 at 2:21 PM
If you're on Chrome, add the extension Sky Follower Bridge. It was a huge help for me
November 13, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Will confirm. I had it on Atari, a friend on Intellivision. His was better.
October 23, 2024 at 4:18 PM
@sarahszilagy.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social Time to start sharing Bluesky jokes with each other!
September 7, 2023 at 11:34 AM
Welcome to Columbus!
September 6, 2023 at 6:01 PM