The Seahawks inducted Gross into their Ring of Honor in 1992, attending the ceremony just two days before his death.
[1][2] Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area,[3] Gross graduated from Tamalpais High School in 1954.
[4] Gross began his career in sports broadcasting as high school play-by-play announcer in Watsonville, California.
Later, he worked as a Top 40 disc jockey at KSRO Santa Rosa, KXOA Sacramento (using the on-air name "Tony King"), and KJOY Stockton.
[citation needed] When the expansion Seattle Seahawks began NFL preseason play in 1976, Gross became their play-by-play announcer, an assignment which eventually stretched out 17 years.