Neville A. "Nev" Chandler, Jr. (born October 2, 1946 in Lakewood, Ohio

Lakewood, Ohio

Lakewood is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area, and borders the city of Cleveland. The population was 52,131 at the 2010 making it the third largest city in Cuyahoga County, behind Cleveland and Parma .Lakewood, one of Cleveland's...

—died August 7, 1994 in Rocky River, Ohio

Rocky River, Ohio

Rocky River is an affluent western suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, United States located in Cuyahoga County approximately nine miles west of Public Square in downtown Cleveland. The city is named for the river that forms its eastern border...

) was a Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

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-area sports broadcaster.

Chandler graduated from Rocky River High School and, in 1968, Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

. In the 1970s, he worked for several television stations in Ohio

Ohio

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 and sometimes hosted a sports talk show on WWWE-AM.

From 1980 to 1984, Chandler served as WWWE's sports director and teamed with Herb Score

Herb Score

Herbert Jude Score was a Major League Baseball pitcher and announcer.-Athletic career:Score came up as a rookie in with the Cleveland Indians...

 on Cleveland Indians

Cleveland Indians

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 radio broadcasts. In 1985, he moved to television station WEWS as sports director and sports anchor.

He was best-known for calling play-by-play for the Cleveland Browns

Cleveland Browns

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 from 1985 to 1993, a time during which the team made the playoffs five straight years. He had no real catchphrase, save maybe for counting down "5-4-3-2-1-touchdown!" as a Browns player ticked off the last few yards before a score. Chandler was a true fan of the team but did not hesitate to criticize his employers, especially when coach Bill Belichick

Bill Belichick

William Stephen "Bill" Belichick is an American football head coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. After spending his first 15 seasons in the league as an assistant coach, Belichick got his first head coaching job with the Cleveland Browns in 1991...

 persisted in running speedy halfback

Running back

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 Eric Metcalf

Eric Metcalf

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 up the middle.

However, the quality of Chandler's broadcasts and the excitement of his voice made him a fan favorite and a regular choice for the soundtrack of NFL Films

NFL Films

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 productions. The title of NFL Films' movie about the 1986 Browns, Pandemonium Palace, comes from Chandler's call of the team's double-overtime playoff win over the New York Jets

New York Jets

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.

Chandler died of colon cancer on Sunday, August 7, 1994. He is buried in Lakewood Park Cemetery in Rocky River.

External links

• "Nev Chandler a fan to the last" by Terry Pluto
  Terry Pluto
  Terry Pluto is an award-winning sportswriter who primarily writes columns for The Plain Dealer, and formerly for the Akron Beacon Journal about Cleveland sports and religion. He has been named Ohio Sportswriter of the Year eight times...
  
  , Akron Beacon Journal Nov. 18, 2002.
• Entry in Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.