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re: How many LSU fans will shed a tear on Hawthorns last day?
Posted on 2/16/15 at 4:06 pm to Rudy40
Posted on 2/16/15 at 4:06 pm to Rudy40
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please let them get a quality play by play guy for the first time since John Ferguson
uh, what???
I grew up listening to John Ferguson every Saturday night. Before the days of cable TV, LSU football was only on radio.
Ferguson had a unique voice, but he was NOT a good play-by-play man. Way too slow in giving the results of a play. So many times, I heard the roar of the crowd several seconds before he announced what occurred. Very frustrating as a listener.
A good PBP guy gives very quick pertinent details of the play as it occurs, and then lets the color guy do the analysis. Ferguson was just too slow for my liking.
That being said, I grew up listening to him, so he still has a place in my heart. I just don't think he was technically very good.
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Posted on 2/16/15 at 4:41 pm to atltiger6487
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Way too slow in giving the results of a play. So many times, I heard the roar of the crowd several seconds before he announced what occurred. Very frustrating as a listener.
Your reception was a hell of a lot better than mine.
Posted on 2/16/15 at 4:56 pm to atltiger6487
One of the things that Ferguson had a habit of doing was the loooong pause.
" The ball is the air............it's ............
in.............(What John!! For God's sake WHAT???)
complete.
He was a master of the dramatic pause, intentional or not. Radio men of that era had to paint a picture. John's just took a bit longer to develop. He was a living classic.
" The ball is the air............it's ............
in.............(What John!! For God's sake WHAT???)
complete.
He was a master of the dramatic pause, intentional or not. Radio men of that era had to paint a picture. John's just took a bit longer to develop. He was a living classic.
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