Larry Munson retiring

This will likely be changed by the time anyone else gets to it, but on the ajc.com home page, there was a header, "Munson retires" over a picture of him. Right next to that was a header, "Stock market tumbles again." Just struck me as funny.

If you want a sampling of his work, there are a number of mp3 files linked on larrymunson.com

 

Am sure he'd much rather have you pee on a frat-house carpet in his honor...

 

Or kick a field goal "100,000 miles" to beat Clemson (okay, the real kick was only 60 yards, but I like Munson's version better)

 

Driving through the middle of nowhere at night after a game in Starkvegas, listening to Larry Munson moan, "Rex Grossman has thrown for a million yards," I was fortunate not to have plowed that rental car through a fence and into a cow.

 

We were gone. I gave up. You did too.

 

Not to threadjack, but Starkvegas has to be the most desolate college football outpost in the South. During my one trip there, I kept looking out into the night saying, "Where's the town?"

 

Did you look behind the hay bale and the cow...

 

THAT'S where it was hiding!

 

"Loran, whaddya got?"

 

Miracle!

This fanboi's heart is heavy, but having listened to him call the first two home games, I knew it was coming. He just didn't sound like he was enjoying himself, though I'm not sure "enjoy" is the right word to describe Munson watching Georgia. Still, I hope he can get well. It wouldn't surprise me to see him live to be 102, just to prove everyone wrong.

 

Because our good friend hoops doesn't hang around much anymore:

"Cancer, Larry."

 

Starkville. They coulda left off the ville and the name woulda fit better ...

deskslave, you know you're going to hell for that. I'll be right behind you, because I laughed out loud at that, both the first time I heard it a dozen years ago and again just now ...