Feel free to add as these are off the top of my head… Keith Jackson will always hold the “Voice of college football” as I grew up listening to him and Mushburger (who I am not fond of)
Favorite announcers of all time?
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Adam Benetti- play by play
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Got to mention radio Jim Zabel. Who can forget “I love it I love it I love it”!
Got to mention radio Jim Zabel. Who can forget “I love it I love it I love it”!
You have a great list. I am adding a couple oldtimers, Chris Schenkel, who many of you may have never heard live, but a very good game caller, great voice, who called many great games and did it well. He called the Texas vs Arkansas 1969 game for the Natty which was called the "game of the century" and that year. He called some big games. Keith Jackson replaced Schenkel doing ABC football
And Lindsey Nelson, on CBS mostly, who told the audience "Ladies and gentlemen, Army did not score again! This is not live!" during the first-ever televised instant replay on December 7, 1963. I remember watching that game when Army Navy was really a top 10 type game with Staubach, etc.
I liked Keith Jackson at times.
I usually watch games with the sound off, though. It's really tiresome hearing how many of the guys on the field are the best in the nation or the conference, according to the announcers. Ugh.
I usually watch games with the sound off, though. It's really tiresome hearing how many of the guys on the field are the best in the nation or the conference, according to the announcers. Ugh.
Wayne Larrave
Had lunch with him. . Nice guy
Had lunch with him. . Nice guy
Your list should begin and end with Connor Onion. jk
You have a solid list. KJ is definitely in a league of his own!
Jackson and whoever’s 2nd isn’t even close. Woah, Nelly.
Sean McDonough is one of the best working now, along with Gus Johnson. McDonough has done some great work on Iowa games, including the upset over Michigan State featuring the Tyler Sash to Micah Hyde pick-6, and Hyde's pick 6 vs. Missouri at the old Insight Bowl in Phoenix.
And I get chills every time I listen to Johnson's call from the 2015 BIG title game vs. MSU: "C . . . J . . . Beathard!"
I hear Schenkel’s voice when I think of bowling!
I’m a college basketball junkie, Dick Enberg and Billy Packer and of course Al McGuire. The best in college basketball History.
For old timers, I have to give a plug to Kurt Gowdy.
the obvious answer is Yogi Roth
the obvious answer is Yogi Roth
Keith Jackson is just nostalgic for me. The voice of College Football for half a century!
I also really like Chris Speilman. I am very impressed with how Pat Angerer has done in the booth so far on radio for the Hawkeyes... those 2 kind of remind me of eachother.
I also really like Chris Speilman. I am very impressed with how Pat Angerer has done in the booth so far on radio for the Hawkeyes... those 2 kind of remind me of eachother.
Chris Martin, his counterpart for infamous MSU, made the great “7 got 6” call. He was really good at it in the short time he was in broadcasting. I heard he got into personal finance and would be surprised if he’s not doing well there.
I liked Jim Zabel, but just had an issue with the dysphemisms that he used sometimes (i.e., calling an opposing team named after gophers as "rodents" repeatedly during at least one broadcast).
You must be older than I am, a distinction being held by fewer and fewer people these days.
My three favorites are (in no particular order and for probably different reasons) Curt Gowdy (1960s and 1970s), Bob Costas (1990s) and Chris Spielman. Gowdy is favored due to nostalgia and eloquence; Costas for his unequaled level of eloquence; and Spielman for his humor (see below)
My all-time favorite line of Spielman's was a response to his co-announcer's comment that "he's been tackled in the backfield for a loss by the ubiquitous A.J. Hawk."
To which Spielman replied, "not only is he that, but he is everywhere on the field, it seems."
My all-time favorite line of Spielman's was a response to his co-announcer's comment that "he's been tackled in the backfield for a loss by the ubiquitous A.J. Hawk."
To which Spielman replied, "not only is he that, but he is everywhere on the field, it seems."
Didn’t Chris Schenkel call the first Iowa-ISU game when the series resumed?
Keith Jackson for college football.
Pat Summerall and John Madden for pro football.
Ron Gonder for Hawkeye football.
Pat Summerall and John Madden for pro football.
Ron Gonder for Hawkeye football.
Spielman was absolutely brilliant in a Florida Iowa bowl game where Hawks got badly jobbed by the refs, Outback or Citrus Bowl 2007 I think. He jumped to the front of the pack for me in that game.
Oh Nelly……I’m going with Keith Jackson, hands down.
Also Pat Summerall, Dick Enberg. Great memories of 1980s from all of them.
Also Pat Summerall, Dick Enberg. Great memories of 1980s from all of them.
College - Keith Jackson and Brent Musburger. There was nothing quite like hearing Musburger at the beginning of a broadcast say "You're looking LIVE at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa, where the Iowa HUCK-eyes..."
Pro - Nobody will ever come close the the team of Pat Summerall and John Madden. Summerall was the steady, monotone baseline with Madden bringing all the color in the world. Exceptional duo.
Pro - Nobody will ever come close the the team of Pat Summerall and John Madden. Summerall was the steady, monotone baseline with Madden bringing all the color in the world. Exceptional duo.
College Football-Jackson
Hawkeye Football-Gonder and Riley
Hawkeye Basketball-Bob Hogue
College Basketball-Engberg,Packer,Mcguire
Pro Football-Sumerall,Madden
Hawkeye Football-Gonder and Riley
Hawkeye Basketball-Bob Hogue
College Basketball-Engberg,Packer,Mcguire
Pro Football-Sumerall,Madden
