Who is your current favorite announcer?

[tbone_ 14166]

Joel Klatt - announcing and talking head shows. 

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[Bama Llama 1450]

Current PBP and Color:

Klatt ++++

Blackledge ++++
Fowler +++
Nessler +++
Gus ++
Tessatore ++
Herbstreit +
McElroy +
Danielson -
Brando - -

I don’t have enough recent years screen time with any others. I liked Keith Jackson and Frank Broyles on ABC college games. MNF was okay for a time. I was watching when Cosell reported John Lennon’s death - he handled it like a professional. Awful shit there. Chris Schenkel was my least favorite of that era. He always seemed elated at PATs. There’s the snap, it’s placed down . . . And the kick is . . . GOOOOOOOOD! No shit, Chris, as are 99% of the fuckers.
 

Edited January 9, 2023 by Bama Llama
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[LTtxfan 49361]

17 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Another article    NEW YORK POST

NBC swipes ESPN’s Todd Blackledge to team with Noah Eagle for new Big Ten coverage

By Andrew Marchand     January 6, 2023 

NBC Sports’ new Big Ten prime-time broadcast team is going to have an old-school and new-school look, The Post has learned.

NBC has swiped Todd Blackledge from ESPN for its forthcoming Saturday college football package and will team him with 26-year-old play-by-player Noah Eagle, according to sources.

For Blackledge, 61, this will be his third network after runs at CBS and ESPN. He is expected to call the national championship on ESPN Radio Monday, which will be his final assignment with the network. He is considered ESPN’s No. 2 college football game analyst behind Kirk Herbstreit.

Eagle, the son of famed play-by-player, Ian, continues a meteoric rise. Besides being the radio voice of the Clippers, he gained national attention by calling the Nickelodeon NFL games with Nate Burleson. He also was a play-by-player on regular season NFL games for Fox Sports and NFL Network this season. With Fox Sports, he was a weekly play-by-player on its college football coverage.

NBC has shown a preference for hiring the sons of successful sportscasters, as it has Jac Collinsworth, son of Cris, on Notre Dame play-by-play and as part of “Football Night in America,” where Cris is the lead “Sunday Night Football” game analyst. Chris Simms, son of Phil, is also on FNIA, as well as Pro Football Talk with Mike Florio.

NBC has swiped Todd Blackledge from ESPN for its forthcoming Saturday college football package with 26-year-old play-by-player, Noah Eagle.

The Post previously reported that Maria Taylor, the host of FNIA, will also take on lead studio duties for NBC’s new Big Ten coverage.

In the forthcoming seasons, the Big Ten will have a new football presentation, which won’t include ESPN for the first time in nearly four decades. Fox will have its Big Noon Kickoff, while CBS will handle the 3:30 window, and then Eagle and Blackledge will be in prime time. 

 

Noah Eagle was a play-by-player on regular season NFL games for Fox Sports and NFL Network this season.

For next year, CBS will still have SEC football – which muddled its Big Ten schedule a bit – but the following year all the SEC games will be on ESPN and its family of channels, while the Big Ten will be locked in at 3:30 on CBS sandwiched around Fox and NBC.

 

Getting Blackledge from ESPN is a good move for NBC.  But, nepotism and diversity seems like it might be a problem with Simms, Collinsworth and Eagle on the NBC roster now...

Noah Eagle

[Native Horn 3516]

that kid should go with radio

[Dignan 359]

Hmm. TV Play by play I have no idea. I don’t really tune in to a game because of the announcer. I do like Gus and Joel as a team. Now, I WILL turn off a game because of a play by play person, mainly Beth Mowins.
Good lord does she suck.

[927 E. 41st 1124]

I would listen to Craig Way call curling. Klatt is good. Miss Keith Jackson, but by the time he called our 2005 NC game he was a shadow of his former self.

Hear me out on this, a couple of times I was driving out of Austin after a game and trying to find something to listen to. Found Dave South calling an Aggy game. He was so freaking bad and emergency Looch level of homer that I laughed for hours. The best would be a close game with them losing. It was often impossible to tell what was really going on, but you could read throughout his tone and delivery that the Fightn texum aggys were going to drop another one. I haven’t had a chance to listen to their new guy, of course I hope he is just as ridiculous but really what are the odds.

Edited January 11, 2023 by 927 E. 41st

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[realgreggym 837]

Lindsey Nelson's sportscoats

[Alphie Solomons. 231]

Listening to Bill Shoening call play by play in Baseball was very, very good.   I wish he'd come back for that and let Moreland do color.

One of those 'you know it's spring time and it's sunny and you remember where you were', listening' type of deals.    Lot of Vin Scully in that way (not saying he WAS Vin Scully, just that 'lazy afternoon voice.') 

I preferred Bill to Craig on Play by Play for the football games.   Also, preferred Ron Franklin to Craig.

Basketball was what I thought he did the third best and it's interesting that that is where he got his 'big break'

Current guys, tho - 

another vote for Klatt

Like Gus Johnson still, and Chris Fowler when he's still doing it.

[Dignan 359]

I thought we were only talking about american football. I do really like Arlo White on the Premier League broadcasts. My most underrated, no one talks about guy on TV? Brock Huard. I think he is really good as a color guy for Fox. No silly bits. Just straight up analysis. Anyone else?

[Native Horn 3516]

Love listening to Brad Sham and Babe Laufenberg for Cowboys radio.  Tons of insight, of course, to the Cowboys, without being yuge homers.  Somebody makes a terrible play, they aren't afraid to call it out.

[tbone_ 14166]

Yea Sham is great. Didn’t he do longhorn games for a time back in the day?

[LTtxfan 49361]

Nice to see Kaylee Hartung left ABC News to get back to covering sports again... on sideline of the NFL playoff game tonight   (Jags vs Chargers)