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Who are your favorite announcers, regardless of sport?

Mine are, in order,

1. Gus Johnson
2. Joe Buck
3. Brent Musberger (I don't like him personally, but I like listening to him call games)
 
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Hockey guys blow any others out fo the water:

Gary Thorne
Mike Emrick
Bob Miller



no one else comes close...


LEAST Fav:

so glad John Madden is gone, I know he wasn't a play by play guy but lord was he bad...
and Joe Buck is so boring... it's no wonder people think baseball is slow, most Americans watch games he does and man!... Homerun in the World Series at a key moment, he barely reacts to it... sell the sport Joe!!! (see Mike Emrick)
 
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For ND games

Tony Roberts
Lindsay Nelson
Paul Hornung

In General
Collinsworth has grown on me
Mike Lange
No one from ESPN/ABC, except Gruden but he's a coach annoucing till the next great gig comes along.
 
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Keith Jackson is a legend.
Brent Musberger. I don't like Herbie with him though.
Charles "Mothaf****in" Barkely is the king of Basketball Pre & Post games.
 
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oh i forgot to say my least favorite...

don criqui in a landslide. he is brutal. his calls are just like "crist is back. throws to floyd. touchdown. what a play." he doesn't explain whats happening, nor does he show any emotion at all.
 
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Keith Jackson hated ND and had a hard on for the Big 10 and USC...

all I needed to know.

;)
 
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ACamp1900 said:
Keith Jackson hated ND and had a hard on for the Big 10 and USC...

all I needed to know.

;)
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Funny you say that because I remember my Dad and Pop sitting in the floor laughing and drinking - talking about Ara Parseghian and Keith Jackson doing games together and Jackson saying how much he respected ND.

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My current favorite, by a landslide, is Gus Johnson. He makes every game, every important play, seem exciting. Football or basketball, the guy is phenonemal.

Hockey - grew up listening to Bob Miller for the Kings, and he's fantastic.

Out here in L.A. i also grew up with the pleasure of listening to 3 legends **** Enberg (for the Angels), Chick Hearn (my all-time favorite), and Vin Scully.

For color guys, for me and my preferred style, I LOVE Collinsworth. Also really enjoy Mayock for the NDS games. That dude really knows his stuff.

And for my all-time favorite color analyst, any sport, I just have to throw this out for ACamp. Do you remember when Joe Torre did Angel games? I've never heard a guy predict so many things that would happen in a game like he did. He was a friggin genius when it came to baseball. He was such a good analyst...it sucked when he left our booth to manage (sigh)...
 
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Vin Scully











Brad Nessler's pretty good. how bout some love for Mike Mayock?
Not an announcer but i love Wendi Nix. Waaaayyyy hotter than Erin Andrews
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NDinL.A. said:
My current favorite, by a landslide, is Gus Johnson. He makes every game, every important play, seem exciting. Football or basketball, the guy is phenonemal.

Hockey - grew up listening to Bob Miller for the Kings, and he's fantastic.

Out here in L.A. i also grew up with the pleasure of listening to 3 legends **** Enberg (for the Angels), Chick Hearn (my all-time favorite), and Vin Scully.

For color guys, for me and my preferred style, I LOVE Collinsworth. Also really enjoy Mayock for the NDS games. That dude really knows his stuff.

And for my all-time favorite color analyst, any sport, I just have to throw this out for ACamp. Do you remember when Joe Torre did Angel games? I've never heard a guy predict so many things that would happen in a game like he did. He was a friggin genius when it came to baseball. He was such a good analyst...it sucked when he left our booth to manage (sigh)...
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That reminds me of Tom Pagna; when he was doing the ND games while Davies was coach, he would say the next play will be "......" because so and so are in such and such a formation and the down is...
And, sure enough, that would be the play. I am not sure why Pagna was fired, but he didn't last very long while Davies was coach. The strange thing was that when we played Oregon St in a bowl game, it seemed that they knew every play we were going to run and had four or five defenders there before our ball carrier arrived.
I guess that Davies didn't think that the defensive coordinates watched game film and could see what Pagna could see.
 
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NDinL.A. said:
My current favorite, by a landslide, is Gus Johnson. He makes every game, every important play, seem exciting. Football or basketball, the guy is phenonemal.

Hockey - grew up listening to Bob Miller for the Kings, and he's fantastic.

Out here in L.A. i also grew up with the pleasure of listening to 3 legends **** Enberg (for the Angels), Chick Hearn (my all-time favorite), and Vin Scully.

For color guys, for me and my preferred style, I LOVE Collinsworth. Also really enjoy Mayock for the NDS games. That dude really knows his stuff.

And for my all-time favorite color analyst, any sport, I just have to throw this out for ACamp. Do you remember when Joe Torre did Angel games? I've never heard a guy predict so many things that would happen in a game like he did. He was a friggin genius when it came to baseball. He was such a good analyst...it sucked when he left our booth to manage (sigh)...
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I remember the brief time Torre did the Angels... mid to late 80ish if memory serves... (I was young) I also remember Sparky Anderson doing the Angels color... I do not remember **** Enberg ever doing anything with teh Angels though to be honest... can I ask you a question...


how old are you??? I am 30 so... yeah Torre is a faint memory... Enberg is not one at all
 
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ACamp1900 said:
I remember the brief time Torre did the Angels... mid to late 80ish if memory serves... (I was young) I also remember Sparky Anderson doing the Angels color... I do not remember **** Enberg ever doing anything with teh Angels though to be honest... can I ask you a question...


how old are you??? I am 30 so... yeah Torre is a faint memory... Enberg is not one at all
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I'm 36. The announcer (Name redacted - Male Body Part Used To Procreate, Among Other Things) Enberg was on the radio and I was such a freak when I was a kid that I never missed a game, whether it was on TV or the radio. I loved Enberg, but then again at that age (10) I would've loved anyone. Sadly, he did it for about 10 yrs in the late 60's-70's so I couldn't listen then, but he did it for one yr in 85 and that was when I got to listen.
 
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In English speaking football coverage, Martin Tyler is quite good too. Kind of the Madden of World Football without the idiotic sayings and fear of flying.
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yeah but he often works with Andy Grey who is a no good piece of shat Hun...

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1. Chuck Thompson The legend that called Oriole games on the Radio when I was a kid,Later replaced by Jon Millar and now Joe Angel.

2. Curt Gowdy The legend that was the play by play on Game of the week baseball telecast on NBC

3. Lindsay Nelson The legend that did the telecast of Notre Dame games every week when I was A kid.

Chris Shenckal The Best college football play by play on ABC College football when I was a kid.

In my opinion the guys of today with the exception of a very few are horrible.
 
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No love for Mike Emrick??... def. the best in the buisness imo
 
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My top guys:
Madden (earlier years were better, just entertaining)
Collinsworth (rare mixture of knowledge, class, professionalism, voice that doesn't make me nuts)
Jackson (you grow up listening to a guy, and he grows on ya)
Gowdy (late add, great voice, met him, at all things, a fly fishing expo)

Honorable mention:
Mayock (intense, knowledgeable, not afraid to say refs blew one, does his homework)
Michaels (I'm used to him, sentimental nod, and I do believe in miracles)
Coleman (radio)
Blackledge (collinsworth Jr.)

Guy I'd like to see get a real shot:
Charles Davis (always impressive, always does his homework, explanations are concise, knows footbal at all levels...would love to see he and Mayock together...)

Guys I immediately mute:
Buck (most practiced voice in all of sport, fake, anoying)
Musberger (hated him since the "worst thing about scoring on them, is you gotta give them the ball back" comment)...
Bolerjack (does not do homework, 2nd most practiced voice in sport)

My Homer: Hot Rod Hundley (Utah Jazz-retired, I'm not all that tense about B-ball, so some of the stuff he said was entertaining, knowledgeable guy too)
 
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I mentioned Jack Brickhouse and I will tell you why.
He was responsible for the FCC rule that you can't drink while on the air. Brickhouse did the Cubs games and the sponsor was Hamms Beer. At every inning break, Jack would do a Hamms commercial and to show what a great beer it was, he would drink it.
Needless to say, by the ninth inning, things were a little loose. Extra inning games and double headers were a beauty to behold.
 
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the best I ever heard, football (Raiders), basketball (Warriors) and baseball (A's). He was knowledgeable, funny, and unafraid to say what was on his mind. He had a real talent for not just describing the play, but the whole moment.
CLE_Irish13 said:
Who are your favorite announcers, regardless of sport?

Mine are, in order,

1. Gus Johnson
2. Joe Buck
3. Brent Musberger (I don't like him personally, but I like listening to him call games)
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irish1958 said:
I mentioned Jack Brickhouse and I will tell you why.
He was responsible for the FCC rule that you can't drink while on the air. Brickhouse did the Cubs games and the sponsor was Hamms Beer. At every inning break, Jack would do a Hamms commercial and to show what a great beer it was, he would drink it.
Needless to say, by the ninth inning, things were a little loose. Extra inning games and double headers were a beauty to behold.
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I remember listening to Brickhouse. He was simply one of the greats. I know Harry Caray used to imbibe occasionally during the games. His voice would slur uncontrollably going into the late innings. Memories.
 
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