Your Favorite Sports Announcers

[AZRams]

All-time favs, 1a) Vin Scully and 1b) Chick Hearn.

Chick was so idiosyncratic, he was like no other voice in the NBA...

 

[Memento]

Vin Scully was the best

If the St Louis Announcer that Memento stated was the same announcer in 1977, I have to heartily disagree with her.

I was in St Louis listening to a Dodger game in 1977 and I was unaware at the time how crappy announcers could be.

Maybe that announcer is an acquired taste or was a different announcer at the time.

Excuse me, but Jack Buck was an amazing announcer, so amazing, in fact, that he did primetime NFL games as well as calling every Cardinals game.

 

[Tano]

Excuse me, but Jack Buck was an amazing announcer, so amazing, in fact, that he did primetime NFL games as well as calling every Cardinals game.

Was he announcing in 1977?

The one I heard as a kid was horrible but then again I might be getting him confused with the SF announcer

In the most deadpan voice I can muster

Deep fly ball to left field. If it is fair, it's gone. It's fair. It's gone.

And I mean deadpan.

 

[Memento]

Was he announcing in 1977?

The one I heard as a kid was horrible but then again I might be getting him confused with the SF announcer

In the most deadpan voice I can muster

Deep fly ball to left field. If it is fair, it's gone. It's fair. It's gone.

And I mean deadpan.

I don't know. But this is one of his most famous calls:

 

[JustMe]

I don’t mind Sanchez , SO FAR.

 

[Allen2McVay]

Honorable mention to Cotton McKnight and Pepper Brooks from the film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.

Some classics:
Cotton McKnight:
Looks like it's gonna be a two-on-one, a ménage à trois of pain.
Pepper Brooks:
Usually you pay double for that kind of action, Cotton.

Cotton McKnight:
It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys, the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian.

Cotton McKnight:
Las Vegas. A city built of hot sand, broken dreams and $5 lobster. A city where you can get a happy ending, if you pay a little extra.

Cotton McKnight:
Unbelievable. I have been to the Great Wall of China. I have seen the Pyramids of Egypt. I've even witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel. But never in all my years as a sportscaster have I witnessed something as improbable, as impossible, as what we've witnessed here.

Cotton McKnight:
It looks like the clock is about to strike midnight on this Cinderella story, turning Average Joe's into the proverbial pumpkin.
Pepper Brooks:
I sure do like pumpkins, Cotton.

Pepper Brooks:
Ooh, Ouch-town, population you, bro!

 

[RamFan503]

I don't know. But this is one of his most famous calls:

That scoreboard was taunting me. I feel triggered.

 

[Memento]

That scoreboard was taunting me. I feel triggered.

Hey, you can at least say that you have the most recent WS win? And that you kicked our asses in the Wild Card game last year?

 

[Ramon Ram]

Baseball - Phil Rizzuto was the best to listen to for amusement. Buck and Scully though Curt Gowdy brings back some great memories.
Football - Ray Scott has a special place in my heart "This is Snow". Summerall and Madden together with Vern Lundquist right there in college with Keith Jackson " whoa nelly"
Basketball - Marv Albert "Yes and it counts"
Hockey - Dan Kelly - "A drive"
Boxing - Don Dunphy

 

[Tano]

I don't know. But this is one of his most famous calls:

Yeah that is not the guy I heard in 1977.

I remember Jack Buck now but Vin Scully is still the best.

Cardinal fans may feel otherwise but nationally I bet Vin Scully was much more popular that Buck.

Same with Chick Hearn vs the Boston Celtics Announcer

Only Boston fans will state he was better than Hearn.

 

[AZRams]

I don't know. But this is one of his most famous calls:

Honorable mention to Cotton McKnight and Pepper Brooks from the film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.

Some classics:
Cotton McKnight:
Looks like it's gonna be a two-on-one, a ménage à trois of pain.
Pepper Brooks:
Usually you pay double for that kind of action, Cotton.

Cotton McKnight:
It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys, the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian.

Cotton McKnight:
Las Vegas. A city built of hot sand, broken dreams and $5 lobster. A city where you can get a happy ending, if you pay a little extra.

Cotton McKnight:
Unbelievable. I have been to the Great Wall of China. I have seen the Pyramids of Egypt. I've even witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel. But never in all my years as a sportscaster have I witnessed something as improbable, as impossible, as what we've witnessed here.

Cotton McKnight:
It looks like the clock is about to strike midnight on this Cinderella story, turning Average Joe's into the proverbial pumpkin.
Pepper Brooks:
I sure do like pumpkins, Cotton.

Pepper Brooks:
Ooh, Ouch-town, population you, bro!

L...M...A...O.

And, in the immortal words of Pepper Brooks himself: That's rad.

 

[AZRams]

I don't know. But this is one of his most famous calls:

Frickin' Niedenfuer...

 

[Tano]

Hey, you can at least say that you have the most recent WS win? And that you kicked our asses in the Wild Card game last year?

Would you believe the only reason I passed the CPA exam for the Audit and Law sections in 1985 was because of Neidenfuer throwing a home run pitch to Jack Clark in the final game.

I was yelling at the screen - walk him - you have first base open - Andy Van Slyke on deck with Jerry Reuss in the bull pen.

Walk him you dumbasses - WALLLLLLLKKKKKK HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

First pitch - right down the middle - 3 run home run

I turned off the TV right after the final pitch - and spent the next 4 weeks before the exam just studying. I didn't do anything else those days. Eat Sleep Study with a 2 hr break to watch Voltron He-Man and a couple other TV cartoons because I needed some dumb ass shows to watch and let my brain ease up a little.

I think that was the only time I was beyond ticked at a sporting event. I have been disappointed frequently but never so pissed off in my life at a really stupid ass move since Neidenfuer had already pitched 3 plus innings.

 

[Memento]

Yeah that is not the guy I heard in 1977.

I remember Jack Buck now but Vin Scully is still the best.

Cardinal fans may feel otherwise but nationally I bet Vin Scully was much more popular that Buck.

Same with Chick Hearn vs the Boston Celtics Announcer

Only Boston fans will state he was better than Hearn.

Pretty sure that Buck did Monday Night Football games. He was incredibly popular as an announcer.

Frickin' Niedenfuer...

Sorry.

 

[dang]

Dennis Miller was the most riveting for sure.

 

[Tano]

Pretty sure that Buck did Monday Night Football games. He was incredibly popular as an announcer.

Monday Night Football or Monday Night Baseball?

I know Michael Jackson has been doing Monday Night Football for a long time

 

[Tano]

Monday Night Football or Monday Night Baseball?

I know Michael Jackson has been doing Monday Night Football for a long time

Scully did the World Series, Sunday Football on CBS and Golf

 

[Memento]

Monday Night Football or Monday Night Baseball?

I know Michael Jackson has been doing Monday Night Football for a long time

Hmm...now that I've looked it up, he did a ton of stuff for CBS. Football, baseball, boxing, even called hockey one season (before Dan Kelly). And his "For America" poem (that he wrote after 9/11) was awe-inspiring.

 

[AZRams]

Pretty sure that Buck did Monday Night Football games. He was incredibly popular as an announcer.


Sorry.

LOL, no worries.

First came the Smith HR and the Clark homer in Game 6. He was never the same pitcher after that series.

 

[sjm1582002]

Back when TBS broadcast Braves games either Ernie Johnson or Skip Carey (I forgot which) said the below about a couple seated in the nose bleed section and making out that the camera had focused on:

"He's kissing her on the strikes while she's kissing him on the balls."

Long awkward silence ensued with, no doubt, much hilarity off mic.