Longtime Alabama radio play-by-play announcer Eli Gold completed treatments Friday for cancer.

As is tradition, Gold rang a bell following his final chemotherapy treatment. The moment was captured on video and posted to Twitter by Tom Stipe, the producer of the Crimson Tide Sports Network’s broadcasts.

Gold, 69, revealed during an interview last week with WNSP radio in Mobile that he spent a total of six months in different hospitals since falling ill last year. Gold missed the 2022 football season and was diagnosed in December with cancer. He said in a January statement that the cancer was treatable but did not specify the type.

Gold aims to return to the booth for Alabama’s season opener Sept. 2 against Middle Tennessee State. Chris Stewart will call Saturday’s A-Day spring game after filling in for Gold last season.

Gold, who has called Alabama games since 1988, said last week he had lost 148 pounds and lost the ability to walk last year, although he has since regained some of that ability.

“I may show up with a walker, and if that’s the case, big darn deal,” he told WNSP of his return this fall. “There’s tons of people that use walkers in this world. If I can get by with a cane, I’ll do that. Whatever it is.”

Mike Rodak is an Alabama beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @mikerodak.