re: John Ferguson

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listening to ferguson on Jones to Davis touchdown against Ole Miss. How much better was he than Harthorne!

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As is often the case, nostalgia makes things of the past seem much more iconic than the were at the time in reality.

You see this alot in athletics. Time has been very kind to Ferguson's legacy.

I grew up listening to games on the radio as very few were on t.v. back in the 70's. I can remember my brother and I laughing at Ferguson's gaffe's loudly and often. Great voice, and yes he served in the military, but dude could butcher a game every bit as much as Jim if not more.

He actually came back in or around the early 90's to serve at the Saints play-by-play guy and it only lasted a year I think, because it was brutal.

He also did the SEC basketball games of the week with "String music" Joe Dean in the 70's.

He did have some memorable pet lines. "He was in the moonlight" and "he's negotiating his way down field" were two I recall.

I have fond memories because he was part of my youth, but not because he was a peerless play-by-play man in the Vin Scully mode.