re: Best radio/booth call that’s not well known outside your fanbase?

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I miss Hawthorne. He became a crotchety old bastard in his later years and had plenty of gaffes, but his genuine emotion and famous calls just won't be replicated by Chris Blair.

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It’s a matter if taste and I wish Hawthorne all the best but the improvement that came from the Blair change is equivalent to comparing Cameron/Miles O at it’s worse to what we saw last year with Ernsminger/Brady. Specially his last 3-5 years,

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Honestly, Eli Gold was more excited during this call than the

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Why does this guy get so much shite from the Bama faithful?

I think his style and delivery is great.
He reminds me of all the old school guys.

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Jack Cristil's 2008 Egg Bowl was incredible. For reference, this was Croom's last game and Ole Miss won 45-0 while State had 37 yards of total offense.

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Some of those quotes sound like something Bob Uecker would say in Major League

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Why does this guy get so much shite from the Bama faithful?

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He's terrible at actually painting a picture. I never really listened to him until I was in college, and that was at the game with one of those gameday radios. He's fine then. After college and I would occasionally have to actually listen to him without seeing the game you realize he just can't do it. He's awful at giving yard line references. On a big play he will say "He's going to go! He's going to go!" over and over leaving you to guess what is actually happening, how much further does he have to go, etc. On a running play for example he can have a call like "Najee on the carry, spins out of a tackle, runs into another defender, BREAKS THE TACKLE, STIFF ARMS A GUY AND IS brought down for a gain of two on the play. "

As for his style there are too many times he seemingly tries to be a neutral broadcaster. I mean I don't want him to get as bad as some teams broadcasters are when it comes to homer-ism, put he's paid by UA damnit. It's ok to cheer for the team on the broadcast.

Most of Dave South's calls weren't well-known INSIDE our fanbase because we couldn't understand what was happening on the field.

Bluegrass Miracle...I remember watching it live.

I'd never seen this video before (under 5 min long).

To my LSU brothers:

Bluegrass Miracle...10 Years Later

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Not my team but one of the funniest I’ve ever heard of is Jack Cristina from Mississippi State awarding the “sonic drive of the game” to his drive home to Tupelo because the state offense was so bad that day.

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I can give you almost an exact quote.

“And now it’s time for the Sonic drive of the game....and that very well be my drive home, from Starkville to Tupelo, and hopefully it will be an uneventfull drive.”


Jack Cristil was around for 50 years broadcasting our games and if we ever stunk something up really bad he’d be very critical in the booth and he knew his job was safe because EVERY fan loved the man.

So like if we had a tough day running the ball, you might hear him say “There you go, there you go, that was progress right there. According to the chains he got 2 feet on that carry.”


Or “Mississippi State has had an outstanding first few minutes moving the chain. The problem is, it’s now 4th and 40, we’re just going the wrong way.”