Listening to Radio Replay

Hawthorne was miserable to listen to.

100% homer? Only when he saw LSU dominating.

He was a miserable rantard any time the opponent was making a positive play.

Blair is very good professionally, but he doesn’t fit here.

I like Blair, but I did not like that he changed his touchdown call from “Touchdown Tigers” to “Touchdown LSU” just because we were playing the Clemson fake tigers. Say touchdown Clemson if you want, but when calling touchdowns for the home team, use your normal call. I promise we wouldn’t have been confused. It killed the excitement of his calls because “touchdown LSU” just doesn’t roll of the tongue as well.

IKR

Blair was hoarse on Monday.

Go back and listen to him call the Florida or Bama game. He gets plenty excited. Or even check out the video of him in the press box in the dome. Pumping his fists, raising his hands—the guy’s all in.

The common critique on Blair is that he is technically sound but lacks emotional resonance.The critique on Hawthorne was kind of the opposite. I enjoy them both.

Totally agree about Blair. Very disappointed in his calls during this amazing run. The regular tv broadcast was always more exciting. When CBS would replay the play of the game first as broadcast and then as Blair called it, the tv broadcast was always way more exciting. I started out watching the ESPN Hometown broadcas during the National championship game and it nearly put me to sleep. Chris Fowler was WAY more exciting to listen to. I miss Hawthorne- he seemed to care. I know I’ve seen videos of Blair doing play by play and he looked excited but sure didn’t sound like it in his voice.

I miss Hawthorne. To me he was synonymous with LSU. He knew how to call a game with the right emotion because he was a fan of the university. He made mistakes, but to me that was part of his charm.