re: Eli Gold not returning to radio booth for Alabama Football in 2024, ending 35 year tenure.

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Georgia fans well remember going through a similar experience with the end of Larry Munson’s tenure. Although we didn’t non-tender him and cut him loose as Bama seems to have done with Eli Gold.

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For the entirety of my experience as a UGA fan, some 51 years this season, Larry Munson never one time had the down and distance correct, he always gave opposing teams more yards than UGA, missed call after call...and it was the most glorious experience anyone who experienced it ever experienced. He only did home games for at least a few seasons. Had UGA ran him off or caused him to leave over a contract dispute Athens would have been burnt to the ground. Munson, however, was one of the last 2 or 3 truly legendary voices of college football when he retired. He was truly part and parcel of the dawg nation because most of us only knew UGA football because of him...there were only 80,000 tickets and a few games on TV a year...most of us listened raptly to the radio and Munson was our eyes. Gold, as good as he was and as big a part of Alabama football...came along toward the very tip of the tail end of that era. There is no way he could mean as much to Alabama as Munson did to UGA because he was not the eyes of the entire Alabama nation in an era where the radio broadcast as all most people could get to experience college football. Gold waas good, he is a legend but I doubt if even he would say that what he did was close to what Munson and Munson's peers did...