Favorite broadcaster

[Mr. Sluggo]

Eddie Doucette.

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

One favorite? **** Enberg.

 

[Octave]

I loved Bob Murphy.

 

[MileHigh]

I'll echo this as a fellow SoCal native and add **** Enberg.

Me three. Growing up in SoCal we were so lucky with our broadcasters. I was too young for Enberg on UCLA, but he was so good on NBC with the AFC. And also excellent on tennis and golf.

 

[Chef2]

MLB: Denny Matthews
NFL: Pat Summerall
NBA: Marv Albert
NCAA FB: Keith Jackson and Verne are 1 and 1A for me.
NCAA BB: Verne and Raftery were very good together. Of course, you could put a 19 year old zit-faced kid in year 1 at Syracuse with Raft, and he would make it seem like they've been bar buddies for 40 years. I would love to be a fly on the wall of whatever bar Raft is at. Good Heavens, the stories.
NHL: Doc
Golf: I sure do miss McCord and Kostis. CBS screwed the pooch on that. Don't get me wrong. Nantz, Faldo, Pepper, Frank and Finchy are very good together. Immelman's 1 and 2 are getting better, but it would be awesome to have McCord and Kostis back on.

 

[Songbird]

Tom Kelly made this moment as much as Marinovich did.

 

[Bud_Bundy]

I grew up in the radio era in Northwest Ohio listening to Ernie Harwell on Tigers' broadcasts and Jimmy Dudley on the Indians.

 

[Kato]

Bob Uecker

 

[Driftwood]

Barney Hall

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby (the Brain) Heenan.

 

[Songbird]

Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby (the Brain) Heenan.

Jesse Ventura was funny when he was calling him "Chico" Santana.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Jesse Ventura was funny when he was calling him "Chico" Santana.

Jesse was funny, but some of his schtick obviously would not fly today.

 

[Huggy]

Jesse Ventura was funny when he was calling him "Chico" Santana.

Monsoon would always say, "His name is Tito."

The Bod: "Like I said, Chico!"

 

[Huggy]

Jesse Ventura was funny when he was calling him "Chico" Santana.

Speaking of great broadcasters, there's the immortal Billy "Red" Lyons, a mainstay of the squared circle in southern Ontario for years. "Don'cha dare miss it!"

 

[BTExpress]

Voice of God division: John Facenda, Bob Sheppard, Tom Carnegie

I was stumbling through some old Phillies videos and ran across a 1974 team film, narrated by . . . John Facenda. Complete with NFL Films music. Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Apparently NFL Films was based in nearby Cherry Hills, N.J.

As a youngster, I called him every dirty name in the book.

Any that you left out, I'm sure I supplied.

 

[ChrisLong]

Tom Kelly made this moment as much as Marinovich did.

Pete Arbogast thinks you got it wrong.
I didn't care much for Arbogast, then I met him and liked him.
I read a feature on him. During his free time, he goes to hospitals and reads to patients who are in a coma or some other similar condition. If a family member shows up, he excuses himself and leaves. Very noble thing to do. Unsung hero.

 

[Songbird]

Pete Arbogast thinks you got it wrong.
I didn't care much for Arbogast, then I met him and liked him.
I read a feature on him. During his free time, he goes to hospitals and reads to patients who are in a coma or some other similar condition. If a family member shows up, he excuses himself and leaves. Very noble thing to do. Unsung hero.

It wasn't Kelly?

 

[ChrisLong]

It wasn't Kelly?

OH MERCY NURSE, NO.

 

[Songbird]

I'll be jiggered.

 

[Liut]

Pete Arbogast thinks you got it wrong.
I didn't care much for Arbogast, then I met him and liked him.
I read a feature on him. During his free time, he goes to hospitals and reads to patients who are in a coma or some other similar condition. If a family member shows up, he excuses himself and leaves. Very noble thing to do. Unsung hero.

That is really cool! Thanks for sharing, Chris.