Gilbert Godfrey Buttox, 61, longtime morning man at CCC Sports KYY/Denver, dropped a bombshell this morning by announcing his impending retirement on the air. The news was a surprise to management as well as tens of thousands of listeners accustomed to waking up with Buttox every morning."Replacing Buttox will be no easy chore," said a stunned KYY PD Elroy Diablo. "His leaving means there's a gaping hole in our lineup. This is a plum job opening, whatever that means."
"A nationwide hunt is on for someone who can stick out like Buttox did," added GM Clancy Drew. "Truly this is an era's end. It's really going to be different without Buttox in that chair every morning. Listeners were always behind him, even when he made asses out of them. In Denver it was cool to be the butt of one of old G.G.'s jokes."
KYY enjoyed huge Buttox numbers even before the switch to sports in 2001. The departing morning star said in his on-air announcement that he was fortunate to have invested wisely in the gardening supply company Nappyhead Hoses 'n' Things, and will remain on that company's board of directors while enjoying his retirement in the Rocky Mountains.
"I'm not so old that I'm going to just disappear," the well-liked star said. "Just watch - you'll be seeing Buttox everywhere."
