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Chet Coppock, the legendary and flamboyant sportscaster who changed the landscape of broadcasting in Indianapolis — wearing a signature full-length fur coat and injecting his sometimes-controversial opinion into every story — has died.

Coppock was in a car crash last week outside Hilton Head, S.C., and died Wednesday due to the injuries he sustained, his daughter wrote in a post on Facebook.

He was 70 years old.

"His passing is untimely, unexpected and painfully sad," Lyndsey Coppock wrote, "but all we can do at this time is remember how lucky we were to have such a unique and creative trailblazer help shape (us) into the adults we know he was so incredibly proud of."

In Indianapolis, Coppock was known as the first loudmouth sportscaster, a former roller derby announcer who joined WISH-TV (Channel 8) in the early 1970s and left as sports director in 1981 for Chicago.

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