Eli Gold’s incredible streak is coming to an end. The Voice of Alabama football shared Thursday night during “Hey Coach & The Nick Saban Show” that he and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19. Gold will not call the Alabama-Arkansas game, ending his streak of 409 straight Crimson Tide games.

“I tested positive for COVID, as did my wife, regretfully. She got that word today,” Gold said. “We’re going over and doing things as best we can, doing this show from my home in this end of things. And I won’t be with you on Saturday. You and I will be together, we’ll talk and do our pregame show and so on, but I will not be with the team in Fayetteville. As much as I hate to end the streak of 409 games in succession behind the microphone.”

Alabama coach Nick Saban advocated for people to donate plasma, sharing how he benefitted from plasma treatment after he caught the virus.

“I know you got the plasma treatment, I got the plasma treatment, and I know how much it helped me,” Saban said Thursday. “The problem is it would help everyone if we had a supply of the plasma. So, the more and more people who have had this and have immunities to it need to step up and call the Red Cross and try to help some other people heal. I think it cuts down hospitalizations to a large degree and certainly the severity of the illness. I guess I would plead with everybody again to maybe think about doing that.”

Gold has been broadcasting Alabama football games since 1988. On the radio broadcast, he is currently joined by former Alabama quarterback John Parker Wilson as the color analyst and former Crimson Tide safety Rashad Johnson as the sideline reporter.

Gold is unable to travel to Fayetteville, Arkansas due to the positive test. Tide 100.9 reports that veteran broadcaster Chris Stewart will call Saturday’s game in Gold’s place.

[H/T 247Sports]