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re: Is Larry Munson the GOAT?
Posted on 10/15/20 at 8:48 am to sand mountainDvalues
Posted on 10/15/20 at 8:48 am to sand mountainDvalues
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He was a dumb RED from Minnesota that didn’t care about Georgia and that’s OK
Looks like UT fans decided to continue trolling for at least another week.
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Posted on 10/15/20 at 8:58 am to Drooley
I’m partial to Jack Cristil
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:03 am to Drooley
Football, Munson was the best.
Basketball, it’s Cawood Ledford.
Basketball, it’s Cawood Ledford.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:04 am to WildcatMike
Cawood was legit for basketball. 
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:06 am to Drooley
He's fantastic...and although he didn't have the legendary career tenure and all, I think Rod Bramblett was up there in talent.
I'll say though, I thought the "hobnail boot" call was just weird and don't understand how it's so famous. It just seems cringy to me. Seems like he should have just continued and it would have gone something like this:
"We just stepped on their face with a hobnail boot and broke their nose. We just crushed their face. We electrocuted them with a cattle prod and shoved a red hot poker up their arse. We ran them over with a combine harvester, sent them thru a wood chipper, and mailed their body parts to Rosie O'Donnell. We stuck their face in a Howitzer cannon and pulled the trigger. We brought them a martini that was actually sulfuric acid and when they asked for water, dropped napalm on their head"
I'll say though, I thought the "hobnail boot" call was just weird and don't understand how it's so famous. It just seems cringy to me. Seems like he should have just continued and it would have gone something like this:
"We just stepped on their face with a hobnail boot and broke their nose. We just crushed their face. We electrocuted them with a cattle prod and shoved a red hot poker up their arse. We ran them over with a combine harvester, sent them thru a wood chipper, and mailed their body parts to Rosie O'Donnell. We stuck their face in a Howitzer cannon and pulled the trigger. We brought them a martini that was actually sulfuric acid and when they asked for water, dropped napalm on their head"
This post was edited on 10/15/20 at 9:10 am
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:10 am to Porter Osborne Jr
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Looks like UT fans decided to continue trolling for at least another week.
Honest opinion on my take. Munson was entertaining and great for UGA but limited in ability and not a great broadcaster. Funny guy but unable or unwilling to convey the information you wanted. I often listened to him in highschool and you needed the game on TV with him on the radio to follow the game. We use to do 4/4 or 5/5 pickup football games on Saturday and Munson on the radio was great if you didn’t care about the game he was calling.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:16 am to Drooley
I would say yes.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:17 am to Cockeee Don
THE GOAT PERIOD
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:18 am to Drooley
quote:That would be Jack Cristil.
Is Larry Munson the GOAT?
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:24 am to Smokeyone
Oh PUH-LEEZ!
My posting handle reflects the fact that I was once a sports writer and covered SEC football for 20 years.
The last SEC game I covered before moving over to news was at Sanford Stadium. Which means I could listen to Munson up close without having it fade in and out with the vagaries of AM radio transmission across hundreds of miles. (This was pre-streaming on the Internet.) Which I did in detail because the game was an absolute dud. (Alabama stomped a 31-0 mudhole into the Dawgs in 1995 and I could write an arse kicking in my sleep with zero heavy lifting, probably still could.)
Munson was already getting a little age on him, but while he did all his shtick, you better damn well believe he also described every microscopic detail that happened on the field that day, sometimes before it even happened.
The GOAT for college football ... mic drop.
My posting handle reflects the fact that I was once a sports writer and covered SEC football for 20 years.
The last SEC game I covered before moving over to news was at Sanford Stadium. Which means I could listen to Munson up close without having it fade in and out with the vagaries of AM radio transmission across hundreds of miles. (This was pre-streaming on the Internet.) Which I did in detail because the game was an absolute dud. (Alabama stomped a 31-0 mudhole into the Dawgs in 1995 and I could write an arse kicking in my sleep with zero heavy lifting, probably still could.)
Munson was already getting a little age on him, but while he did all his shtick, you better damn well believe he also described every microscopic detail that happened on the field that day, sometimes before it even happened.
The GOAT for college football ... mic drop.
This post was edited on 10/15/20 at 9:27 am
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:29 am to RD Dawg
Buncha Tennessee fans in here hating on Munson like they have some butthurt chapped skin on their arse for some reason. Did something happen recently to anger them?
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:32 am to Drooley
Yes. I grew up listening to Larry Munson in the Atlanta area and was never a UGA fan. That guy is legend.
There will never be a better sports radio announcer.
There will never be a better sports radio announcer.
This post was edited on 10/15/20 at 9:36 am
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:41 am to TailbackU
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Loren, whatdoyagot
Jim Donnan bit his head off at the shoulders once for asking him some stupid question about cramps during a critical junction of a game. I never heard the feed get sent back to the booth so fast in my life.
This post was edited on 10/15/20 at 9:42 am
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:43 am to Drooley
A little trivia ... did y'all know that Munson was on the Atlanta Braves' broadcasting team in 1966 and '67, along with Milo Hamilton and Ernie Johnson?
The story is that Munson left to focus completely on Georgia football (although he actually did an outdoors show too for WSB TV for years).
While there may actually be some truth to that, the rest of the story, I've heard from people who would know, is that one press box was not sufficient to contain the egos of Milo (who was just a wretch of a human being in a lot of ways off the air, just an arse) and Larry (he was great but name someone who's great at something and doesn't have a pretty healthy ego).
Have never heard a clip of Munson doing the Braves, don't know if any exist, I guess that would be a Holy Grail.
I can only imagine Munson's home run call ...
The story is that Munson left to focus completely on Georgia football (although he actually did an outdoors show too for WSB TV for years).
While there may actually be some truth to that, the rest of the story, I've heard from people who would know, is that one press box was not sufficient to contain the egos of Milo (who was just a wretch of a human being in a lot of ways off the air, just an arse) and Larry (he was great but name someone who's great at something and doesn't have a pretty healthy ego).
Have never heard a clip of Munson doing the Braves, don't know if any exist, I guess that would be a Holy Grail.
I can only imagine Munson's home run call ...
This post was edited on 10/15/20 at 9:45 am
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:46 am to InkStainedWretch
Yes. I did know that. I also have not heard any archived footage. He also did basketball for UGA for many years and did Falcons games in the 90s.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:52 am to UnderDog68
I actually had forgotten he did the Falcons, LOL!
Posted on 10/15/20 at 9:55 am to InkStainedWretch
Well...the Falcons were pretty forgettable in the early-mid 90s, so there's that.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 10:00 am to UnderDog68
I remember Munson and the Hawks radio guy doing a Braves game in the late 90's. I think they were filling in when the whole crew was out for Sutton's HoF induction
Posted on 10/15/20 at 10:01 am to jlnoles79
Really? I had went on strike from baseball by that time, so I wasn't tuned in. I'll bet he did a good job, though.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 10:09 am to DonaldDuckworth
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Rod Bramblett was up there
There were so many good ones and we will all be biased by time and school allegiance. That is fine and is what it is. Munson was definitely different, and that is a good thing.
I would have always said Jim Fyffe was the greatest, but thinking back on Rod, man he was really good and had some historic calls. I don't think Jim Fyffe would have survived the Kick 6, he would have probably had a heart attack.
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