Whoa Nellie ... We’ve Lost Hoss

[dcmissle]

Keith Jackson at 89 ...

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/22076254/legendary-broadcaster-keith-jackson-dies-age-89

Another pro’s pro ... another voice of reason ...

Hang in there Uncle Verne. Please hang in thereZ

 

[Granite Sox]

No more Big Uglies or good ol' fashioned gully-washers...

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

In terms of college football announcers, he was the Grandaddy of them all.

 

[TheRealness]

I grew up with him as the voice of college football. Loved when he called games, and he made it more interesting. 89 years is a good run.

Whoa nellie.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

His “Fuuuuuuuumble” calls were the best.

 

[Infield Infidel]

Rumblin, bumblin, stumblin. There's no one I would rather hear call a game.

 

[E5 Yaz]

He seemed so sad the first season of MNF, as though he knew he was out of place in that looney bin. A great college football announcer

 

[ifmanis5]

Oh lemme tellya, one of those guys that everybody liked.

 

[Ale Xander]

Hope he got to see the last Grandaddy of them all in person.

His call of the Charles Woodson Rose Bowl (1998) was the pantheon of college football announcing. Partly because his partner's son ended up MVP of the game, so that took major skill and finesse. And of course his swan song was arguably the greatest college football game ever, the 2006 Rose.

He retired on top.

 

[dirtynine]

I liked this Deadspin comment:

His voice was the only one that makes “Tostitos” sound like an honorific.

 

[mauidano]

What a life, what a career. Universally loved by fans and other announcers alike.

 

[Humphrey]

Loved when he did BC games in the Flutie era with Frank Broyles. Broyles used to sound like Foghorn Leghorn.

 

[MakeMineMoxie]

His “Fuuuuuuuumble” calls were the best.

Especially if you were a Soph-o-more!

 

[loshjott]

Especially if you were a Soph-o-more!

The bell cow of announcers.

 

[rlsb]

Farewell to a quiet, competent and humble superstar.

 

[loshjott]

Maybe my favorite Keith Jackson work.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Loved when he did BC games in the Flutie era with Frank Broyles. Broyles used to sound like Foghorn Leghorn.

they did the 1978 title game that UMass played in, and Broyles kept saying "massa-two-shits" all game long. We made it a drinking game

 

[edoug]

they did the 1978 title game that UMass played in, and Broyles kept saying "massa-two-shits" all game long. We made it a drinking game

Broyles must've been a fan of Nixon.