RIP Keith Jackson

[heyabbott]

Keith Jackson, legendary voice of college football, dead at 89

Whoa Nelly

 

[DanOregon]

I'm going to have to find a VCR and re-run that USC-Texas game. There has never been anyone better. Truly The Voice of college football.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

The gold standard of CFB broadcasters.

 

[expendable]

One of my favorite commercials of all time.

 

[Slacker]

I'm so glad that Keith Jackson was the voice I heard for three decades. Nobody else came close. Big Uglies!!!

 

[jr/shotglass]

College football as I loved it died some today.

 

[Chef2]

This sucks big time.

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

When I think of college football, it’s narrated in Keith Jackson’s voice.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I can't speak for everyone, obviously. But it feels like Keith Jackson was one of a truly dying breed. You never thought about whether he was a **** behind the scenes. You just had the feeling that he wasn't, that he was just a good man who was doing what he loved to do and enriched our life experience by extension.

It feels like today, we wonder about the bad side of everyone who enters the public eye. Never worried about that with Mr. Jackson.

EDIT: The earliest known recording of a Jackson broadcast: Washington State vs. Stanford, 1958.

 

[MileHigh]

RIP to a true giant. This blows.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The one national announcer for whom no fan anywhere ever had a bad word. A part of our lives for so long, it really is akin to losing a (distant) family member. RIP.

 

[exmediahack]

If I'm Don Criqui, I don't exert myself for a few weeks.

 

[steveu]

Not gonna lie, this hits hard. It really is like losing a family member. Spent many a Saturday and other days watching his broadcasts and hearing the "KJ-isms"...

SI put a big story on Keith up today, from 1987. Great read.

ABC's Keith Jackson begs to be imitated

 

[nickp]

Growing up watching college football on Saturdays you knew it was a big game if Keith Jackson was calling it. The soundtrack to my Saturday’s.

 

[swingline]

Along with Uncle Verne, one of the all-time great TV voices.

 

[LanceyHoward]

I can't speak for everyone, obviously. But it feels like Keith Jackson was one of a truly dying breed. You never thought about whether he was a **** behind the scenes. You just had the feeling that he wasn't, that he was just a good man who was doing what he loved to do and enriched our life experience by extension.

It feels like today, we wonder about the bad side of everyone who enters the public eye. Never worried about that with Mr. Jackson.

EDIT: The earliest known recording of a Jackson broadcast: Washington State vs. Stanford, 1958.

This is also very rare footage of football from before about 1970.

 

[wicked]

I was just thinking about him this week. As much as I like Fowler, he couldn't hold KJ's jock.

 

[ChrisLong]

RIP, legend.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

RIP to one of the greatest broadcasters in any sport.

 

[Songbird]

Bye, Keith.