Funny thing while trying to find the perfect picture of Jim Nance on Yahoo. For some reason Shawn Mcdonough came up on the third page...Why? Do they just group all the gay play by play guys together? And since we are on the topic of announcers, below are my top 5 announcers based on the criteria of "How much do they bring to the table."
1. Vince Scully- I hate the Dodgers, but will watch their games while doing work, just to listen to his soothing voice. And he doesn't have a color guy with him. Do you see that anymore? Just one guy doing the game?
2. Bill Raftery- I get chills listening to him open up the NCAA tournament with his famous line. With so many terrible college basketball color guys, he easily tops the list.
3. Al Michaels- Not joking here. I love his play by play for MNF.
4. Johnny Holliday- Loved him in college and after, but really remember listening to him in the car with my dad on the way to 4 Seasons for indoor soccer during the week and listening to him do the early 90s Terps basketball games. Plus he is on XM doing games and is outstanding.
5. John Miller- He would be higher if it wasn't for his idiot color guy. Still remember listening to him do O's games on 1090 during West Coast trips when nobody was listening since it was like 1:00am EST, and he would start announcing in spanish. The guy has passion and a great sense of humor.
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Dare I correct the 5 errors in spelling announcers' names that are seen in this post?
Screw you :)I was just trying to get this up as soon as possible to remove the picture of ole man river.
This whole post has given me a great idea for a kind of geriatric cbs sport booth version of Entourage where Charlie Jones, Vern L., Nantz (turtle of course), Ken Venturi, and Brent Musberger take business class flights between the afc title game, augusta, and the final four, riffing on great topics such as rollie massimino, cliff branch, and the approach on 16. I think eric would be perfect as their ari, trying to sell these grizzled hacks to spike tv.
The hole thing would end up in fistacuffs at ray floyd's barbque where jim lampley tries to mack on lesly visser.
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