High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bjørge Lillelien (29 March 1927 26 October 1987) was a Norwegian sports journalist and commentator. A commentator for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1957 until just before his death from cancer in 1987, he commentated on many sports, but concentrated on winter sports and football. Lillelien was a popular and engaged commentator. It was not unusual for people to turn off the sound on the TV and listen to him on the radio instead. Lillelien quoted by a colleague: "We shouldn't necessarily make a boring radio program even if it is a boring football match. We should make a sports show that excites people". As a person he was often introvert and quiet, the opposite of his on air persona.