Longtime Browns sportscaster Casey Coleman’s battle with pancreatic cancer has unfortunately come to halt. Coleman, 55, died early Monday morning.
His sideline reporting and broadcasting skills were tremendous and the passion and knowledge he brought the game of football each and every Sunday was unmatched. Casey loved Cleveland and Cleveland loved Casey. He will be missed.
“He will definitely be missed, that’s for sure,” said Browns color analyst Doug Dieken, who worked nine years with Coleman on the team’s radio network and also lived next door to him in the Cleveland suburb of Bay Village for five years. “I never saw Casey. He was always out and about doing something with sports. He was what I guess you would call a ‘sportsaholic.’ For him, it was sports 24/7.”
Casey was a class act. I enjoyed listening to his sideline reports during Browns games. He always had a quick wit.
I always liked Casey on Channel 8 and then later on WTAM. I was not wild about him doing play-by-play for the Browns in the mid 1990s, but he gave a good effort. He had some big shoes to fill being the son of the Browns legendary broadcaster.
My aunt passed away with the same kind of cancer that Casey had. It’s a tough, tough battle and I’m glad that he’s at peace now.