Legendary Patriots play by play man Gil Santos, dead at 78

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This guy had one of the smoothest voices ever and called most of the Pats big games. Barring a short hiatus, he was the Pats radio Announcer since the teams inception in 1960, all the way through the 2012 AFC title loss.

He and Gino Cappelletti were one of the most underrated tandems in football broadcatsing history. They both had an 0ld school sound to them that you simply don't hear anymore. The rhythms and the grace of their presentation are all but gone in modern broadcasts.

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[quote]Patriots Hall of Famer was the team’s play-by-play broadcaster for 36 seasons, broadcasting from 1966 to 1980 and then again from 1991 to 2012 when the rights returned to WBZ. Santos is the second-longest-tenured announcer in NFL history after Merrill Reese of the Philadelphia Eagles.

His booming voice gave Boston sports fans many unforgettable calls, but his most important moment undoubtedly came when he called Adam Vinatieri’s game-winning field goal in Super Bowl XXXVI against the St. Louis Rams.

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Wanna know how great Santos was? The famous David Tyree call you always hear is not from the Giants announcer or that bore "thrown... Caught" Joe Buck... It's from Santos - the guy calling wathxing as maybe the greatest team ever blows the perfect season on the maybe the freakist play ever.


Santos highlights from Pats VS. Rams SB:
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