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Gary Danielson Has Honest Admission About SEC Bias After Announcing Retirement

by Larry Leo

April 2, 202537 Comments

Gary Danielson Has Honest Admission About SEC Bias After Announcing Retirement

While on former ESPN analyst David Pollack's See Ball Get Ball podcast, the recently CBS announcer Gary Danielson addressed the narrative that he's an SEC guy...

quote:
"One of the things that I tried to do is not to pretend to be an SEC guy. I thought that was an insult to the SEC fans," Danielson said. "That I just joined in and go, ‘I’m one of you guys.’ I didn’t earn that. You (Pollack) earned that by playing in this league; you grew up. I tried to call balls and strikes and stay in the middle.

"Did it work perfect? Maybe not. You know, the social media kind of ran with it. But it worked good for me. That was what I liked doing… I respected everything about the whole league and what I was doing every week, I’ll tell you that."

(The Spun)

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TDFreak•29 days

Hahaha! “I’m not a Bama homer; I’m a SEC guy”.
Yeah, nobody’s buying that, Gary.

NorthstarinLA•29 days

Did he say that before or after removed little nicks nuts from his chin??

33inNC•28 days

I won't miss his Bama homerism. If he wasn't biased to Alabama, then why did he bring up Saban and Alabama in EVERY game he called, even when they weren't one of the teams playing?

It got so bad that I just muted him on any SEC game he called. I don't give a flying frick how Saban and Alabama did it or what they said. Call the game for the teams actually playing, you dumbass.

3down10•28 days

When I was still a young buck, a Ford commercial and a Chevy commercial came on back to back during a Nascar race. In the commercial, both of them compared themselves to a Toyota. My dad said after - Do you know which one has the best? Toyota, the one the others compared themselves to.

dagrippa•29 days

It was obvious he loved Alabama. He did a shite job of hiding that.

atltiger6487•29 days

Gary had no dog in the hunt - he's from the midwest. If he "loves" Bama, it was because they were the dominant team in the league whose games Gary covered.

Sissidog02•28 days

My favorite was when the GOAT(19 LSU) Team was beating Tua and dragging his arse around and GAYree would go Tua looks like he’s hurt now, then he’d complete a pass “Tua looks like he’s getting on a roll” Chaasion sacks that a$$ and GAYree goes “Looks like that leg is bothering him again” Back and Forth with anguish in his voice while CEH was skull dragging and Burrow, Chase, and Jetts abusing them through the air.

imjustafatkid•28 days

Just to be clear, the 2019 Bama-LSU game was decided by 5 points and was never a slam dunk for LSU. No one could ever possibly describe it in the way sissy boy did.

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Tigerfan4545•29 days

He is a whatever conference Alabama is in guy….TTown homer.

Jake Gittes•28 days

I remember a few "down" years for Alabama when Danielson would seemingly try to coax the committee to include Bama. "Don't count Alabama out yet!" was a favorite phrase of his.

DaBama•28 days

Was there a Saban coached Bama team that you would have counted out? I don't think Gary was biased towards Alabama in particular. I remember him slobbering over Tebow every chance he got.
Gary gushes over whoever stands out and like it or not Bama stood out.

shoelessjoe•28 days

I remember Danielson crying after the 9-6 game.

TFH•28 days

Wut?

Spankum•28 days

I can’t make heads or tails of that string of quotes in the article!

tonydtigr•28 days

Most aggravating announcer ever. Thank God he's gone.
"Touchdown ALABAMAAAA!!!!" in his nauseating idiolect was like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Lou Loomis•28 days

He literally never said it like that. You’re thinking of Verne. And they were both very good. Verne was just a great sports guy. His career was amazing.

Rex Feral•28 days

Don't be mad Alabama score a lot of touchdowns. How else would you expect them to react?

Spankum•28 days

"Touchdown ALABAMAAAA!!!!"

Can you think of a way that we could have avoided hearing that?

FLTech•28 days

It’s perfectly ok for a fan of a SEC team to root for an SEC team if their team isn’t in a game

AngelBaby•27 days

Thanks Gary

BabyTac•28 days

Gary still trolling LSU fans and living rent free…even in retirement.

Lou Loomis•28 days

Verne and Gary were all time greats! Mr. Saturday 12 Pack who always thought he was biased is a dunce.

TigersJump•27 days

Ohhhhh noooo Eric Reid? Yeah that Verne?

imjustafatkid•28 days

He was obviously never a Bama homer. He also wasn't a very good announcer, so there's that.

JackieTreehorn•28 days

If we are going to shite on every announcer that has called games where Alabama beats down LSU, we are going to need to list every major sportscaster in SEC history.

TouchdownTony•28 days

Glad he's not doing Bama games anymore. you could hear the hurt in the guys voice when Bama made a big play. The "aw geez". just always got on my nerves. Most broadcaster don't like Bama but Gary and Verne took the hate to another level.

Barbellthor•28 days

The problem bama homerism was obnoxious.

Jdillard343434•29 days

I miss Danielson Gary's a good man

atltiger6487•29 days

no, he just appeared to favor Bama (in the eyes of some) because Bama was the dominant team in the conference that he worked in. Of course he's going to have favorable commentary for a team that has the best players, the best coach, and wins most of their games.

cattus•29 days

Appeared? Are you shitting me?

faraway•28 days

you self owned. commentary shouldn't be favorable regardless of team.

da foozball•29 days

Lot of Louisiana pussy’s commenting here.

SwampMonster•28 days

“Lot of Louisiana pussy’s commenting here.” Comes to a site called TIGERDROPPINGS and says this…situational awareness is not your strong point.

AtlantaLSUfan•28 days

The guy treated LSU like we were the Washington Generals. Seemed to prefer whoever we were playing. Even given that, hardly any negative comments from LSU fans.

Sissidog02•28 days

Suck That Tiger Dik Btch