re: What's the Rant's thoughts on Jacques Doucet's impression of Hawthorne?

Hey a-hole. You didn’t say anything meaningful. So if he was so “terrible” in your OPINION, why is he in the HoF almost IMMEDIATELY upon retirement. Don’t tell me it was because he was lucky.

THERE IS SUCH A THING AS A RADIO Voice dumbass.
What are you in grade school? If so, isn’t it past your bedtime? Bye bye.
Go bitch about something else a-hole.

You obviously never heard John Ferguson call a game he was head and shoulders above Jim in voice quality and the ability to call a game.

Besides the infamous Jack Hunt call a typical Jim Hawthorne call went something like this. Washington vs LSU and Washington had received the kick off and got ball on the 20 which was before touchbacks were taken to 25. Washington third and two on their own 28 toss sweep and the running back brought down just past the 32. We will have to wait and see what the measurement says on a first down. Wait a minute the referee just signaled first down without a measurement how can they do that!

I mean the line to make was the 30 and Jim calls the runner down at the 32 and rants and raves over a minute on why there was no measurement?

That and Jim's legendary (in the athletic dept) spank-o-vision hotel movie rental charges during the SEC basketball tournament every year.

HOF really????????

The Ronnie Rantz impression of Bertman is annoying as frick

Actually, one person was complaining about Blair and everyone else was arguing the other way. Nice try though.

Ok. You got me. 3 people like Hawthorne. Interesting that you didn't post the thread.

Also, I already posted in this thread that I realize it's a personal preference thing. But, of course, some yahoo has to start some internet fight and start with the insults and flexing the internet muscles.

Jim got in based on longevity not quality!

Jack Hunt Jack Hunt!

I did actually listen to him back then with my dad.

As far as the hall of fame thing is concerned, I agree with the other poster that it was a longevity thing. shite, Mainieri is in the Hall of Fame and a large portion of the LSU fan base wants him gone. The Hall of Fame isn't necessarily the measuring stick when it comes to whether people like the way someone does something.

There are music groups in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame that I'm not a fan of and I'm sure there are some you don't like as well. It's all preference on what style you like.

I get where your coming from. But, like I said in the other thread, in '07 he referred to Derry Beckwith as Chase Pittman when Beckwith got hurt. They wore different numbers, different color skin and Pittman wasn't even on the team. He spent the entire first half talking about how he couldn't figure out why Hester was wearing the number 10 when it was just his jersey folded. He made those kind of mistakes all the time. It's his job to get that stuff right and I prefer to hear it done correctly.

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Don't sweat it. It's just more examples of cynics pointing at "the man in the arena".
I know plenty of these types that only listened to try to catch Jim in a mistake and be first to report on TD.

Blair fricked up a call or 2 the other night and nobody even said shite in game thread, and if it had been Hawthorne there would have been 3 threads about it on front page of tRant.