What Sportscaster Has Redeemed Himself In Your Eyes?

….were the best on TV. Nobody even comes close to Keith Jackson and Frank Broyles…..Two southerners who hid their bias until somthing big happened…..Jackson – “FUMBLE…….Who’s got it?….AL-A-BAMA!!!!.” “Oh NELLIE, just look at that HERSHEL WALKER go.” Broyles – “Keith, Hershel Walker is bigger and faster and stronger than any defensive back, so when he gets past the defensive end, youre in trouble, and poor little Gibbons the safety (Notre Dame) had to try to bring him down.”

On radio Munson is THE standard. Period. But I also enjoyed Jim Fyffe at Auburn, and John Ward at Tennessee was a class act as well. Eli Gold at Alabama is a professional, but he is not the homer that John Forney had been.

I just wish Scott Howard would stop screaming like a little girl when we score. It just grates on my nerves. He sounds like that bozo Bramblett that replaced Fyffe at Auburn.

This may not count though—I hated him on Gameday and Sportscenter, but I started liking him when he began calling games for ABC. Now, I kind of like him on Gameday too.

Postscript: I feel bad for Thom Brennemen. Yes, he sucks. But if someone offered to pay you money to talk over a football broadcast, I bet you’d take it. And you may suck at it, but as long as they don’t fire you…I don’t know. I feel the same way about shitty actors. They’re bad, but it’s not like I’d say no to, say, playing Kristin Davis’ love interest in a feature film for a lot of dough. Even if I knew I wasn’t that great an actor. I’d rather get pissed at the Director/studio/broadcast company than the actor/broadcaster.

…Jeff Dantzler hate. The guy is incredibly knowledgeable, and his weird, nasally voice (funny, you don’t notice it when you meet him in person) gives him a distinct sound which provides Georgia baseball and women basketball broadcasts an entertaining character. Love the guy!

By the way, I would agree with vineyarddawg about Zeier, he’s started to grow on me.

Munson obviously my all time #1 fav. I never cared for Scott Howard as the analyst with Larry, so when I heard Howard was going to call the football, I decided that I wouldn’t listen to him, and I haven’t.
I always liked Pat Summerall. Curt Gowdy would be another. I really like Brad Nessler.
Now for dislikes, I hate Mike Patrick and Thom Brennaman. Now Marty Brennaman is a great announcer, but his son sucks. I personally don’t like Musberger and Herbstreit(him because he lost his credibility in my eye with the Rich Rodriguez/Michigan screwup. So, I put the mute button on when my dislikes do the game.
Oh yeah, one more that I like is Verne Lundquist.

I remember working with both JD and DJ (the two sides of the bulldog sports coin) when I was a high school lad on So. Mill. Ave. Believe it or not, Dantzler has mellowed out quite a bit. And I agree with Dawgb1 that something about radio changes his voice. And I most certainly agree with Boot that no-one knows more about athletics at the University of Georgia unless they’re named Magill or something.
I can’t think of any sportscaster who has redeemed himself, but I did lose all respect for Kirk Herbstreit as a journalist over the last few years. The ease with which he was able to argue two completely contradictory positions over two years depending on whether or not it was to leave OSU in or OSU out of the myth bowl was appalingly disappointing. No intellectual integrity. Which, to be fair, has been par for the course in my experience of graduates of instiutions north of the Ohio (myself certainly included).

-BS

When she first started I could not stand to hear or see her…aw hell, who am i kidding. just wish she could come up with better questions than “how do you plan on stopping that qb/rb/wr gashing your d?”