re: Sports Announcers You Grew Up Listening to?

John Ward
Jack Cristil
Al, Frank and Dan
The guy on Inside the NFL back in the 80's

Dave, Dave & Dave

Paul Eells. Miss him every season.

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The guy on Inside the NFL back in the 80's

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Harry Kalas I think. He was the Phillies longtime announcer. He was great.

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I grew up listening to the Voice of the Razorbacks Paul Eells.

IMO One of the best game announcers ever.

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I grew up listening to Paul Eells,too, but as the voice of the Vanderbilt Commodores. Man,he was great.

This isn't one of those "in my day"as if it were better type posts,but its a shame so many of you espeically under 35,or maybe 30 turn to radio as a 3rd or 4th option now for your team's games.

It used to be a big deal to have your team on TV when I was growing up.Until the 80's, a team could only be on tv twice in a given year. For basketball you had the TVS SEC game of the week with John Ferguson doing play by play and Joe Dean doing color.Every team was on once and if you got lucky you're team would be on twice.

For the most part,most fans were real positive about their announcing crews,too.Very loyal to them. Kentucky games with Cawood Ledford could be heard on WHAS out of Louisville or WCKY out of Covington,on the KY side of Cincinnati on clear channel (note the lower case, not the large corp co Clear Channel), Vandy was on WSM 650, Tennessee could be heard on not clear channel,but two strong stations strangely next to one another on the dial, WSIX 980 in Nashville and WNOX 990 out of Knoxville. Georgia was,and still is on a clear channel station WSB 750 out of Atlanta and of course LSU and WWL870 am from New Orleans.

Alabama and Auburn weren't on clear stations, but John Forney did their games for a long time and I grew up hearing Gary Sanders do Auburn games (he's the voice on the 'Punt Bama Punt' clips if you've ever heard them).

Every now and then you'd get to hear the other teams,broadcast crews on what was called "Pick of Dixie" which was a syndicated deal in various southern towns that would carry a game on a Saturday night, typically which would be an LSU home game since a game for radio certainly wouldn't be moved up or down. But when LSU was off or on the road in the day Florida or a Miss State or Ole Miss night game in Jackson might fill the bill or just to incorporate "Dixie" a Tulane or Miami game might be used.

Good memories.

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Curt Gowdy

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Don't call it sudden death, call it sudden victory !

Lawrence Harry Munson

and the list ends

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Lawrence Harry Munson

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another announcer who started his career doing Vanderbilt games.

John Ferguson former voice of the Tigers:

"He's at the forty, forty-five, fifty, fifty-five.."

"He's down to the fifteen, ten, five. They spot it at the twelve."

"It's just tragic what's happening with the iran hostage crisis...AND HERE COME THE TIGERS!!!!"

Thanks for sharing your memories of Paul Eells, and others. Good info.