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{{Short description|American sports journalist (1929–2008)}}
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{{Infobox sports announcer
| name = Myron Cope
| image =Myron Cope.jpg
| image_size =290px
| caption =Cope during his final radio show in 1995.
| birth_name = Myron Sidney Kopelman<ref name="HOF Radio">
{{cite web| url =http://www.radiohof.org/sportscasters/myroncope.html| title =Myron Cope| access-date =2008-02-27| publisher =[[Radio Hall of Fame]]| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080303014050/http://www.radiohof.org/sportscasters/myroncope.html| archive-date =2008-03-03}}
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| birth_date = January 23, 1929
| birth_place = [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2008|2|27|1929|1|23}}
| death_place = [[Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| other_names =
| team = [[Pittsburgh Steelers]]
| team homepage = [http://www.steelers.com/ www.Steelers.com]
| known_for= 
* 5× [[Super Bowl champion]] ([[Super Bowl IX|IX]], [[Super Bowl X|X]], [[Super Bowl XIII|XIII]], [[Super Bowl XIV|XIV]], [[Super Bowl XL|XL]])
* 5× [[AFC Championship Game|AFC champion]] ([[1974–75 NFL playoffs|1974]], [[1975–76 NFL playoffs|1975]], [[1978–79 NFL playoffs]], [[1979–80 NFL playoffs|1979]], [[2005–06 NFL playoffs|2005]])
| sport = [[American football]]
}}

'''Myron Sidney Kopelman''' (January 23, 1929 – February 27, 2008), known professionally as '''Myron Cope''', was an American sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster. He is best known for being "[[Color commentator|the voice]] of the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]]".

Cope was a [[color commentator]] for the Steelers' radio broadcasts for 35 years. He was known for his distinctive, higher-pitched nasally voice with an identifiable [[Pittsburgh English|Pittsburgh accent]], idiosyncratic speech pattern, and a level of excitement rarely exhibited in the broadcast booth. Cope's most notable catch phrase was ''"yoi"''<ref name="nerw43">{{cite news |work=NorthEast Radio Watch |title=This Week's Bloodbath: Citadel |first=Scott |last=Fybush |url=https://www.fybush.com/NERW/2008/080303/nerw.html |date=2008-03-03}}</ref> {{IPAc-en|ˈ|j|ɔɪ}}. He helped popularize the [[Terrible Towel]], a [[rally towel]] associated with the Steelers. In 1996, Cope gave the rights to the towel to [[Allegheny Valley School]], which has received more than $6&nbsp;million in proceeds from towel sales.

Cope was the first football announcer inducted into the [[National Radio Hall of Fame]].<ref name=pgremembering>{{cite news| author=Gene Collier| author-link=Gene Collier| url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08059/861127-66.stm| title =Remembering Myron Cope: He spoke for Steelers Nation in a language all his own|date = 2008-02-28 |work= [[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|  access-date = 2008-02-29}}</ref> Cope's [[autobiography]], ''Double Yoi!'', was published in [[2002 in literature|2002]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Double Yoi!|last= Cope|first= Myron|year= 2002|publisher= Sports Publishing, L.L.C.|isbn= 1-58261-548-9|pages= 229}}</ref>