Last call for Lou Nanne: Family shares stories of man behind the mic [Video]

Lou Nanne started broadcasting the Minnesota Boys’ State High School Hockey Tournament while he was still playing hockey himself.

He continued as he and his wife Francine raised four children, as he battled prostate cancer and suffered the loss of a son to brain cancer. One thing never changed. His zest for life and enthusiasm for high school hockey. He even got to broadcast games involving a son and two grandsons.

So how did he do it all? For one thing, despite having four children he never changed a diaper.

“No, he never did, no,” laughs his wife Francine. “He was a great dad…but I was a great mom.”

The Nanne kids also got a kick out of the diaper story.

“He used to wait for my mom to come home,” says son Marty Nanne. “We’d be sitting …