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re: Greatest Announcers of All Time (Deceased)
Posted on 12/27/11 at 12:15 pm to tigerpawl
Posted on 12/27/11 at 12:15 pm to tigerpawl
I almost subscribed to the MLB DirecTV package once just to listen to and watch Dodger games. No one can spin a yarn and make a 9-0 game interesting like Scully.
I grew up listening to Eric Nadel and Mark Holtz on Rangers calls. Nadel would be a legend in his own time if he were in NYC, LA, or Chicago.
Ron Franklin has always been my favorite CFB voice since he's days in Austin.
I grew up listening to Eric Nadel and Mark Holtz on Rangers calls. Nadel would be a legend in his own time if he were in NYC, LA, or Chicago.
Ron Franklin has always been my favorite CFB voice since he's days in Austin.
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Posted on 12/27/11 at 12:16 pm to SoFla Tideroller
quote:my all time fav, nothing better for me than to watch/listen to him call a game
Skip Caray
Posted on 12/27/11 at 12:43 pm to tigerpawl
LSU's own John Ferguson.
Posted on 12/27/11 at 1:10 pm to NorthTiger
Worst: Keith Jackson
Best: Jim McKay
Favorite recurring line by Skip Carey:
"And yet again we go to the bottom of another fifth."
Best: Jim McKay
Favorite recurring line by Skip Carey:
"And yet again we go to the bottom of another fifth."
Posted on 12/27/11 at 1:28 pm to tigerpawl
Jack Buck
John Facenda
Mel Allen
Harry Kalas
Ernie Johnson, Sr
Skip Carey
Paul Eels
Curt Gowdy
Jay Randolph
Bill Flemming
Jim McKay
When Scully passes away he will go to top of list as 1A, I was never a Harwell, Brickhouse, or Harry fan.
John Facenda
Mel Allen
Harry Kalas
Ernie Johnson, Sr
Skip Carey
Paul Eels
Curt Gowdy
Jay Randolph
Bill Flemming
Jim McKay
When Scully passes away he will go to top of list as 1A, I was never a Harwell, Brickhouse, or Harry fan.
This post was edited on 12/27/11 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 12/27/11 at 1:33 pm to sms151t
Another worst: Chris Schenkle
Posted on 12/27/11 at 1:40 pm to Zach
Good list SM15
I liked Harwell, I'd tune in to Detroit am radio down here just to listen to him. He was just a natural part of the game.
I used to like Jackson, but thinking back to the 70s and 80s, he WAS a PAC 10/Big 10 guy, even though he has a southern accent, and gully-washers, notwithstanding.
John Ferguson!! What more need be said?
Give a listen to Harry Caray prior to his stroke days, when he was still in St. Louis. His calls of Stan Musial's 3000th hit, and Musial's last at bat are the stuff of legend. To hear Musial's last at bat, and not conjure a tear....is difficult to say the least.
"Take a good look folks, the stance, the swing, we will never see his like again." He gets a base hit, then a pinch runner comes out....."there he goes."
I liked Harwell, I'd tune in to Detroit am radio down here just to listen to him. He was just a natural part of the game.
I used to like Jackson, but thinking back to the 70s and 80s, he WAS a PAC 10/Big 10 guy, even though he has a southern accent, and gully-washers, notwithstanding.
John Ferguson!! What more need be said?
Give a listen to Harry Caray prior to his stroke days, when he was still in St. Louis. His calls of Stan Musial's 3000th hit, and Musial's last at bat are the stuff of legend. To hear Musial's last at bat, and not conjure a tear....is difficult to say the least.
"Take a good look folks, the stance, the swing, we will never see his like again." He gets a base hit, then a pinch runner comes out....."there he goes."
Posted on 12/27/11 at 1:44 pm to RedPop4
Growing up in Cards country I have heard Harry a lot pre WGN days, I just liked Buck better and I also liked George Grande and Ken Wilson a lot.
This post was edited on 12/27/11 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 12/27/11 at 1:51 pm to sms151t
Loved Buck, too. He and Harry were very different, that's all.
Buck was awesome at football, as well. He and Hank Stram on Monday nights were solid. Sometime I wondered if they really liked each other, but they delivered because each wanted to out do the other on the quality information. It was funny sometimes.
Buck was awesome at football, as well. He and Hank Stram on Monday nights were solid. Sometime I wondered if they really liked each other, but they delivered because each wanted to out do the other on the quality information. It was funny sometimes.
Posted on 12/27/11 at 2:10 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Jack Buck!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 12/27/11 at 2:41 pm to tigerpawl
Posted on 12/27/11 at 2:44 pm to Zamoro10
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Keith Jackson was terrible. A huge Big10/Pac10 homer whose claim to fame was a stupid "Whoa Nelly." He was neither intelligent nor good speaker.
One of the worst things I've ever read on here. Keith Jackson was college football.
And if him being a "perceived" Big 10/Pac 10 homer in your eyes is a reason why you don't like him...that means you have a callow problem and are frankly clueless (as he only exclusively announced Pac 10/Big 10 games in his last few years) while he was the national "game of the week" for ALL of college football - for his entire career before that.
Yeah, he always had a hard-on for Bama. Too many youngsters only remember him doing Pac 10/Big 10 games, I guess.
Posted on 12/27/11 at 2:44 pm to LouisianaSatNight
Jack Cristil or gtfo
Posted on 12/27/11 at 2:47 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Keith and J. Frank on ABC games were better than he and Bob, IMO.
Posted on 12/27/11 at 2:56 pm to Zamoro10
quote:
You must hate college football
No. Only Keith Jackson. Egotistical POS. Turning a BCSCG into his own retirement party and then pulling a Brett Favre a few months later? GTFO Keith.
Posted on 12/27/11 at 3:18 pm to TulaneLSU
Tulanelsu for a long time KJ did sec games for abc
And he was one of the best!
And he was one of the best!
Posted on 12/27/11 at 3:29 pm to TejasHorn
For me personally, have to go with Curt Gowdy. 15 years doing both TV and radio for the Red Sox, and then on to the national stage.
"Gowdy covered pro football (both the AFL and NFL), Major League Baseball, college football, and college basketball. He was involved in the broadcast of 13 World Series, 16 baseball All-Star Games, 9 Super Bowls, 14 Rose Bowls, 8 Olympic Games and 24 NCAA Final Fours. He also hosted the long-running outdoors show The American Sportsman on ABC."
"Gowdy covered pro football (both the AFL and NFL), Major League Baseball, college football, and college basketball. He was involved in the broadcast of 13 World Series, 16 baseball All-Star Games, 9 Super Bowls, 14 Rose Bowls, 8 Olympic Games and 24 NCAA Final Fours. He also hosted the long-running outdoors show The American Sportsman on ABC."
Posted on 12/27/11 at 3:33 pm to NHTIGER
Harry
Cawood Ledford
Cawood Ledford
Posted on 12/27/11 at 3:40 pm to sms151t
Curt Gowdy was the best nfl announcer of ALL-TIME.....Classic......none like him around anymore
Posted on 12/27/11 at 3:56 pm to saintsman49
Al Michaels, Bob Costas, Ernie Harwell, Milo Hamilton. Dick Stockton. Gus Johnson. Ron Franklin
Color : John Madden, Doug Moreau, Dick Vitale
MY BAD: Only 1 Deceased.
Color : John Madden, Doug Moreau, Dick Vitale
MY BAD: Only 1 Deceased.
This post was edited on 12/27/11 at 3:57 pm
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