Scott Miller, the Fargo broadcaster who was the play-by-play voice of the North Dakota State football dynasty, died of cancer Thursday morning. He was 57.
Miller was also the voice of NDSU men's and women's basketball and the Fargo Redhawks of the American Association, one of the rivals of the St. Paul Saints.If you ever were driving in western Minnesota or most of North Dakota, and heard a play-by-play voice call out, "My, oh, my!" that was Miller.
The grief is strong and pure today in Bison Nation.
Fargo Forum and WDAY talk show host Mike McFeely wrote: "You need to know that no matter how much Scott Miller lived for his job and loved calling Bison games and obsessed over doing everything exactly right, I knew him as a good man. One of the best, kindest, gentlest, humblest, purest, most genuine souls any of us could ever know."
Here's a tribute video that was posted Thursday morning by the NDSU athletic department:
Miller called games for the University of North Dakota before becoming the voice of NDSU sports 20 years ago.
A friend and former colleague at WDAY radio in Fargo, Daryl Ritchison, spoke to the relationship between Miller and those who followed North Dakota State's teams: "It was almost like he was married to Bison Nation. So many people loved him because of that. It gets said too often, but he really was an amazing person. The world could use a lot more Scott Millers."
