Your favorite broadcasters
 

The radio broadcaster for my alma mater died yesterday morning unexpectedly. It's impossible to think of sports without his voice.

Who do you regard the same way? Broadcasters past or present, TV or radio, who add so much to the game that it's not the same without them.

And why?

My alma mater is Auburn, and Jim Fyffe was the play-by-play guy for 22 years. He died yesterday at 57 of a sudden brain aneurysm. He started when Pat Dye came to Auburn and he was the voice for Auburn's greatest era in football and basketball. His familiar cry of "Touchdown, Auburn!" was his signature call.

I always have liked Jim Henderson (local Saints radio play by play guy) and Summerall-Madden. My dad would always listen to Saints games on radio with the TV muted. I grew up with Summerall-Madden on CBS and then FOX for other NFL games.

fearofmear, that's the best way to listen to baseball games. T.V. on and on mute, radio for sound. The announcers are much more talented. They are wonderfully discriptive, and often they have a deeper well of knowledge than the tv guys.

Favorites? Well, I liked Carey. Present day - any radio pro-baseball guy, they are all good.

But in football, well, some of those guys are plain annoying. I don't like the Sunday Nite crew. I like Madden, Michaels, and I think Steve Tasker is highly underrated. He brings a whole other component to the booth. He understands alot about the game. Solomon Wilcots is plain awful.

John Sterling, the broadcaster for the New York Yankees is a god. I love the way he calls games and I never get tired of him.

HOF for sure.

I lived in Chicago for a very long time and you don't consider yourself a Chicagoan without also embracing Harry Carey. He was Chicago to me.

Thorne and Clement (hands of cement) do a fantastic job of calling the hockey games. I don't think anyone does it better in any sport.

Dick Vitale baby! Yeah, he can get on your nerves and sometimes his voice is annoying and whiny, but the man represents everything good about college basketball. The excitement, enthusiasm, and randomly funny comments are great.

He's gotten so much better than when he used to do the Braves with Skip Caray.

Vin Scully can tell you a baseball player's life story before the 3rd pitch. He makes every game, no matter how slow paced, a very interesting esperience.

I also like Dick Vitale. He's annoying when doing analysis, post-game stuff. But during the game, no one's better.

Bob Miller and Jim Fox for the Los Angeles Kings are two of the best in all of sports. :cool:

Def. I've been listening to John Sterling since the early 90s, when it was him and Joe Angel. I wonder whatever happened to Joe Angel...

I sorta liked it when it was Sterling and Michael Kay. They were a great team, each having very unique homerun calls.

And of course, how can you think of Yankee baseball without the Scooter? HOLY COW, he made a lot of mistakes, but we all loved him.