Nashville Predators radio voice Pete Weber has revealed he has been diagnosed with a brain disorder that has limited his broadcasting availability.
In November, Weber was diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus, a disorder that occurs when too much cerebrospinal fluid is circulated around the brain. It caused Weber to fall on the team plane in October as well as another fall before a game later that month. The second fall landed Weber in the hospital.
Weber is undergoing a procedure that will hopefully rectify the situation.
In the interim, Max Herz — who joined the network broadcast team this season — will handle play-by-play duties, with the Predators Radio Network continuing to include Weber in all pregame broadcasts.
“That’s been tremendously uplifting for me,” Weber told the club’s website. “To be able to hear Max do the job that he’s doing and to see the friendship that comes pouring through from everybody else – that is more than I have a right to ask for.”
Weber has been the only radio voice in the franchise’s history, which played its first game in 1998.
Predators President and CEO Sean Henry was appreciative that Weber would share his story.
“We would never talk about why he wasn’t on the road, of course, unless it was something that he and [his wife] Claudia were willing to share,” Henry said. “And I’m glad that they were, because there are tens and hundreds of thousands of people that just love the guy… And you only open up that way to people that you care about and that care about you.”
