After 32 years on the air, Cal football analyst Lee Grosscup will work his final game next Wednesday when the Bears take on TCU in the Cheez-It Bowl.

Grosscup, whose 54-year college football broadcasting career includes 20 years as a national TV analyst working with the likes of Keith Jackson and Al Michaels, will then celebrate his 82nd birthday the next day.

“It’s been a wonderful time,” Grosscup told CalBears.com. “I’ll miss it. It’s a good way for me to go out.”

For the past 15 years, Grosscup has served as the Bears postgame radio analyst on KGO-810 while working with Hal Ramey. Before sliding over to postgame coverage, Cal fans were treated to Grosscup’s in-game views as the game analyst alongside longtime play-by-play man Joe Starkey for 17 years.

Before he started talking about the game, Grosscup was quite a quarterback in his day. He was an All-American quarterback at Utah in 1959, and the New York Giants made him the 10th overall pick in the NFL draft.

His brief professional career featured three season with the Giants and ended with Grosscup spending the 1964 season on the Raiders’ practice squad — called the taxi squad back then.