Victor Jacobs (born December 12, 1952), also known as Vic "The Brick" Jacobs, is an American radio and television sportscaster. He is best known as a former co-host of ''The Loose Cannons'', a sports radio talk airing nationally on

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. He is known for eccentric behavior, like wearing fur caps and robes, and writing Lakers

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poems to read on-air.

Early years

Jacobs grew up in

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. He is a graduate of

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, and got his start in broadcasting in

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, back in 1979. Jacobs also had other sports broadcasting stints, working at KTVV (now

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), in

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, and radio and television outlets in

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. Jacobs began his broadcasting career at Western Albemarle High School in Crozet, Virginia. He announced games for the Warriors. In 1988, Jacobs arrived in Los Angeles and at

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, where he was the station's sports Anchor. It was starting there that Jacobs' eccentric personality came to light, and was most remembered for throwing a foam brick at the camera, for anything that he disagreed with. However, the "Brick" was used on his Austin, Texas sportscasts as far back as the mid-1980s. The stint at KIIS led Jacobs to help launch the new sports-talk format at KIIS's AM sister station, the newly renamed KXTA (1150 AM, now

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). The new station was based on the popular XTRA Sports 690 in San Diego, a sister station then-owned by Jacor Communications (now part of

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). On March 10, 1997, Jacobs was first voice heard on the new XTRA Sports 1150, as a solo host of a midday program. Later on, he was teamed with NBA superstar and future Hall of Famer

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and NFL Hall of Famer

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in hosting duties. In 2011 he was inducted into the

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.Vic “The Brick” Jacobs
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References

VIC THE BRICK HAS HIS EYES ON L.A.

External links

* ttp://allaccess.am570radio.com/victhebrickjacobs Vic Jacobs' KLAC Profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobs, Vic American sports radio personalities Cornell University alumni Sportspeople from Queens, New York 1952 births Living people