Favorite sports broadcaster

Just wondering who your favorite sports broadcaster is or was. It can be from any sport, tv or radio. Needless to say living in Alabama I'm a huge college football fan, in particular an Alabama fan. To me there wasn't anyone who could call a better college football game like Keith Jackson. For me growing up his voice was college football on tv. So who was yours?

Bill Walton.

Al Michaels

Dating back to when I first started watching sports, early '80s.

1. Howard Cosell

2. Vin Scully

3. Harry Caray

4. John Madden

5. George Foreman

6. Greg Papa (bay area, Raiders radio)

I'm sure I could think of more if I wasn't tired. These are the sportscasters that I've genuinely looked forward to hearing.

Shamus Malin for soccer. He was taken off the WC because network people thought he had to dumb down the commentary for new fans. Also how he phrased the things in the game. In 1994 he called the great Brazilian Romerio great half volley goal sheer eligance and he was right. I must have saw that goal 20 times. It's on YouTube.

Howard Cosell if you notice you never saw both his hands. One shook due to Parkinson's.

When I liked baseball my favorite guy was Phil Rosutto.

Just read this

R.I.P. to espn's John Saunders

I heard this earlier this morning. Surprising and sad. RIP. Seemed like a nice guy; liked him moderating the SPorts Reporters.

In other reporting news this morning, FOX is releasing Tony Siragusa from his sideline analyst position during NFL games. Too bad - I liked The Goose.

"Funny you should say that"


That's a movie line from The Goose... can you think of the film?

ditto!

25th hour?

I also like Pat Summerall, Brent Musburger, Jack Buck and his son. There's probably not a lot of NASCAR fans here but back in the day nobody could call a race like Ned Jarrett.

Joe Tait was the Cavs radio broadcaster from 1970 to 2010. He was awesome. He had a wry sense of humor and some memorable sayings. When they would not break away during a timeout, Tait would say "We've paid the rent and we'll keep it right here." Or when there was a whistle on a debatable call he would say "now what?"

I also liked Marty Glickman. He used to broadcast the NY Giants, Jets and knicks,

I forgot about Marty Glickman he was good. There was a bar near Madison square garden. When I worked in the garment district I used to see him in there.

Loved it when Marv Albert called NBA games in the 90's.
Also hey Dixiemafia who was you favorite Bama radio announcers/crew? My are probably Eli, the Snake and Tom Roberts. I've only heard John Forney on replays. I was to young to remember. Also liked Doug Layton and Paul Kennedy.

Foots, wasn't there some controversy with Glickman when he was not allowed to participate in the Berlin Olympics during Hitler's reign because he was Jewish?

Right. The Eastern European accent was good because I thought it was some guy who just looked like Goose.

Regarding the midwest region, Bob Uecker still does Brewers home games on radio.

marty was a great sprinter, tremendous athlete. loved his voice, great announcer. yes, foots probably knows the answer.

marty Glickman. pat summerall, going back a while 50s L,A, rams, bob Kelly. joe buck is great of the younger group.

Glickman use to do local high school American football on local tv. I think it was either channel 13 or channel 31 here back then.

When I was growing up, Johnny Bench hosted a weekly tv show for kids called "Baseball Bunch." Uecker was either a co-host or a regular. He was great.

During the '95 playoffs, Uecker was the color man on NBC with Bob Costas. At Costas' request, Uecker delievered his classic Major League line "juuuuuuuust a bit outside."

Do you like any of the females? I personally cannot get used to them and would rather have only men broadcasting.

well, she wasn't a broadcaster, but phyliss George used to be on with brett musburger. she brighted my day.

So Binnie C were you listening to what she was saying or just drooling the whole time watching?

These women as sports commentators think that men are actually listening to them and respecting them as equals. They don't realize that they are just eye candy.

My "Old Man Crush", Al Michaels will be hosting BOTH Sunday AND Thursday Night Football. Meow.

It's the "do you believe in miracles" line, isn't it?

Noone can beat Cosell; Madden is best in NFL football.