Rick Rizzs has forged his nearly five-decade, Hall of Fame-caliber broadcasting career on positivity and enthusiasm. So it's no surprise that Rizzs' reaction to his gruesome all-terrain-vehicle accident last week is one of gratitude, not self-pity.
In our phone conversation this week — interrupted when the doorbell rang for a delivery of flowers, a fairly common occurrence — a slightly groggy-sounding but characteristically upbeat Rizzs said, over and over, how fortunate he was.
"It could have been a lot worse," he said. "The good Lord was looking over me. ... I was very, very, very lucky, because it could have been bad."
