Ray Scott, why was he fired?

Heard Criqui on Notre Dame radio yesterday ... he's now comatose. Was just awful.

 

Ahh - wrong thread - this thread is about Ray Scott- the anti Brent Musburger

 

way to delete the reference to Criqui...you're a fucking asshole.

 

Again - wrong thread - read the heading. Criqui thread is over on anything goes.

 

That would have been Keith Jackson.

 

Smasher Sloan pretty much has it. The early 1970s was the time CBS Sports decided it, like ABC and NBC, would have a star pairing -- it turned out to be Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier -- assigned to the big game of the week, rather than just use the announcers assigned to that team, which had been the case before. That was how Ray Scott, assigned to the once-lowly Packers pre-Lombardi, became famous.
Scott was also the TV voice of the Minnesota Twins for several years -- he worked with Vin Scully on NBC's 1965 World Series broadcasts -- and post-NFL, worked Arizona State games for a while, then was the radio voice of the Minnesota Golden Gophers on WCCO. Ran into him at a basketball game once and he couldn't have been nicer. His last big national deal was as a fill-in announcer for NFL on NBC when most of the network staff was at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

 

Met Ray Scott at a colleague's retirement party in 1995. Incredibly nice man.

 

You're right ... he had a Cosell story, though, but it has faded with the mists of time.

 

Ray Scott could tell you more by saying less than any other announcer. Had a great ability to anticipate a big play about to happen just by the inflection in his voice. And he did it without screaming.

 

"Staubach......TOUCHDOWN!.....Mike....DITKA!!!!!

 

"Kennedy. Bullet. Dead."

(Ray Scott in Dealey Plaza.)

 

Well done, F_B.