With legendary CBS broadcaster Verne Lundquist having called his last SEC football game on Saturday afternoon, he’ll be remembered for a long time as one of the best in the business.

The end of his long football announcing career brought one of the best Uncle Verne stories back to national attention — the story of meeting his wife.

Lundquist spoke of meeting Nancy to Sports Illustrated‘s Richard Deitsch in 2013, but it’s a great story, so here it is again:

We met in a bar — and I hasten to add it was an upscale bar in Dallas. It was a place called Arthur’s. I walked in after I did the 10 o’clock news (at WFAA-TV in Dallas) and I just didn’t want to go home. Nancy and her date were at the bar and her date recognized me from local television and invited me over to have a drink. He introduced me to his date and her name was Nancy Miller. It was their first date, a blind date. So we sat and chatted and her date, Raymond Willie, said to me, “Listen, I know you are single. I’m going to fix you up with a friend of mind and we can all go to dinner.” He looked at Nancy and asked her, “What are you doing Thursday night?” She said, “Nothing.” He said, “Good, you’ll be my date and we’ll fix Verne up with this schoolteacher friend of mine and we’ll go to dinner.” Meanwhile, I’m looking at Nancy thinking she is the prettiest thing I have ever seen in my life. So, Raymond finally left to take care of his business and I asked Nancy, “So, how involved are you with Raymond? She said, “Oh, this is our first date and it’s a blind date.” So I said, “Well forget what he is talking about on Thursday night. What are you doing on Saturday night?” She said, “I think I am doing whatever you are doing.”

What a charmer, that Uncle Verne.

Here’s hoping he and Nancy enjoy his retirement and get to spend a lot of time together.