Keith Jackson (R.I.P)

[JXC]

2005 Rose Bowl, 4th quarter, talking about Vince Young:

Dan Fouts: "Veni, Vidi, Vici"
KJ: "Ah yes, how sweet the wine"

That was classic.

WOW!!! That's incredable!

 

[Bucklion]

This was a good one too:

"This has to go down as an all-time all-timer."

 

[jwinslow]

Keith Jackson/Rose Bowl "mockery"

read it in its entirety... but to cater to the lazy types

8:37 -- Keith Jackson on Vince Young: "As an old defensive coach once said, 'He ain't got no handles,' but he led the country in passing this year."

(Um, does anyone on this plane speak jive? What just happened there?)

8:45 -- Top-four names, words and phrases that sound 10 times more entertaining when Keith Jackson says them: (1) LenDale White; (2) Tostitos; (3) the speedster; (4) Frostee Rucker.

10:00 -- An action-packed USC drive for a field goal closes out the first half, highlighted by shaky clock management and a vicious hit on a Leinart scramble that didn't even remotely faze Keith Jackson. After about 90 years of announcing, you would need to sack someone with a chainsaw for Keith Jackson to be flustered. Heading into halftime, it's Texas 16, USC 10.

10:57 -- Reason No. 235 why I enjoy the Keith Jackson Era -- any time he has to read a "Dancing with the Stars" promo. I'm dying for him to do "Emily's Reasons Why Not." "You know Heather Graham as the stunning beauty who played Rollergirl and Felicity Shagwell ... now this little lassie has her own show on ABC ..."

11:07 -- All right, this wasn't just the highlight of the game, it might have been the highlight of my life. Here's an actual transcript of Keith Jackson reading an "Emily's Reasons Why Not" promo (10 minutes after I wished for it): "Don't miss the season's premiere of 'Emily's Reasons Why Not.' [Mumbling to someone off-camera.] 'Emily's Reasons' ... I don't know. [Back to the promo.] Starring Heather ... Graham. A new comedy about love, laughter and life, premiering at Monday, 9 central, followed by an all-new 'Jake' ... [prolonged pause] ... in Progress,' starring John Stah-mos." (Note: That was 10 times funnier if you imagine Stamos flipping out in his living room, screaming, "It's STAY-mos, you old fart! STAY-mos!" before flipping over his 40-inch Sony Wega, breaking a coffee table and finally being consoled by Dave Coulier and his publicist, Lewis Kay.)

11:40 -- Since I firmly believe Marv Albert should do every big NBA game, Pat Summerall every big NFL game and Keith Jackson every big college football game, no matter how old they are, and only because it feels like a bigger game when any of them is involved, I feel totally comfortable saying this: Listening to Jackson is like driving with my mother at night. In other words, maybe he can't really see anymore, and he might drive over a few curbs, and maybe he'll even send a pedestrian diving behind a parking meter ... but it's always exciting, and you always get home safely in the end.

12:04 a.m. -- I'll tell ya, one of these times, Jackson and Fouts are going to realize that someone fumbled in this game when it actually happened. Law of averages.

12:21 -- Young runs for the 2-point conversion. I now have him ranked above every NFL QB except for Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Carson Palmer. Good golly. We also had this exchange right after the conversion: -- Jackson: "Only 19 seconds to play ... clock didn't move on that play."
-- Fouts: "That's an extra point, it's probably not going to ... "

he's merely past his prime... classic KJ:

[FONT=Verdana,Helvetica,Arial]"Never have so many spent so much time to sit in relative comfort to brag about their failures." -Keith Jackson on golf
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[cincibuckeyenut]

12:21 -- Young runs for the 2-point conversion. I now have him ranked above every NFL QB except for Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Carson Palmer. Good golly. We also had this exchange right after the conversion: -- Jackson: "Only 19 seconds to play ... clock didn't move on that play."
-- Fouts: "That's an extra point, it's probably not going to ... "

This has got to be the funniest thing I have read all day.

 

[ysuGreg]

This year's Stanford - Notre Dame

In the closing seconds after Notre Dame had scored and taken the lead, Stanford's quarterback throws an incomplete pass leading to:

Jackson: "Did he actually, literally spike it."

 

[kippy1040]

Back in the early days of ABC sports with Kieth Jackson and Chris Schenkel, they were pretty popular and were in thier prime. Chris has sinced passed on and to see Kieth Jackson still going on makes me think of how old I am now. The younger generation cannot remember what a contribution he was to college football back in the 70's. The sport writers today are trying thier best to keep him in the Limelight but I think time as passed him by and I for the life of me can't undeerstand why he is still on the air. But as he is here, I would still rate him a hell of a lot higher than Dan Fouts. Thats just the way it is i guess.

 

[MaxBuck]

Keith Jackson is like 85 years old. What is Paul Keels's excuse?

 

[NFBuck]

11:07 -- All right, this wasn't just the highlight of the game, it might have been the highlight of my life. Here's an actual transcript of Keith Jackson reading an "Emily's Reasons Why Not" promo (10 minutes after I wished for it): "Don't miss the season's premiere of 'Emily's Reasons Why Not.' [Mumbling to someone off-camera.] 'Emily's Reasons' ... I don't know. [Back to the promo.] Starring Heather ... Graham. A new comedy about love, laughter and life, premiering at Monday, 9 central, followed by an all-new 'Jake' ... [prolonged pause] ... in Progress,' starring John Stah-mos." (Note: That was 10 times funnier if you imagine Stamos flipping out in his living room, screaming, "It's STAY-mos, you old fart! STAY-mos!" before flipping over his 40-inch Sony Wega, breaking a coffee table and finally being consoled by Dave Coulier and his publicist, Lewis Kay.)

I was at work watching the game with the sound way down, so I missed that one!

 

[BuckeyeParalgl]

How about "Ken Dorsey is 38-1 as a starter. He is the cool dude who drives this bus." Umm... I don't know about you but the phrase "cool dude who drives this bus" hasn't been used since the 70's. I envision Ken Dorsey driving a VW peace bus. The only phrase that comes to mind is "wrong".

 

[seed702]

Come on guys, he's a legend!

Haha, but he's horrible now.

He said something in the first quarter about how the drum major dropped the baton, and Fouts says something fucking stupid like "lots of pressure in big games for everybody Keith." I can't stand Dan Fouts.

 

[BUCKYLE]

When I was younger, (only 26 now) Kieth Jackson was college football.

The quotes I will always remember are...

"On the banks of the Olentangy"- referring to The 'Shoe....
and...

"Whoa Nelly", of course.

That being said, he is far past his prime, time to "Hang it up".

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

How about "Ken Dorsey is 38-1 as a starter. He is the cool dude who drives this bus." Umm... I don't know about you but the phrase "cool dude who drives this bus" hasn't been used since the 70's. I envision Ken Dorsey driving a VW peace bus. The only phrase that comes to mind is "wrong".

Sorry if one of the most well-known and respected (although now over-the-hill) sports announcers of all time doesn't customize his verbiage to the under-25 crowd.

Dinner must be ready, 'cuz I just heard "Dinnnng!"

 

[BrutusBobcat]

Sorry if one of the most well-known and respected (although now over-the-hill) sports announcers of all time doesn't customize his verbiage to the under-25 crowd.

Maybe people would like it better if he hung out with Stuart Scott for a while?

"Troy Smith is cooler than the other side of the pillow...whoa Nelly! Booya!"

 

[cincibuck]

Personally I've enjoyed ABCs coverage over the years. I liked Jackson's metaphors and felt like he did a pretty good job at being a balanced analyst. It isn't his fault that he was calling The Game during the Cooper era when I assume most of you began to follow buckeye football...

You want bad? Ask some of us old farts who had to listen to the Rose Bowl called by the likes of Chris Schienkle, Curt Gowdy, Mel Allen and a few other stand up comics posing as sports casters... now there's a cast of totally clueless folks.

No one has mentioned Musberger. The guy could have scored a major career coup if he'd done a Bob Trumpy/Paul Hornung homer-domer job at the Fiesta. The East Coast corridor and LA, his two biggest markets, would have loved him.

If anything he proved himself a Big 10 man at heart. ND scores and his first comment, "Hold on folks, Troy Smith is about to get his hands on the ball and I guarantee he'll get this Buckeye team rolling..." or words to that affect. He was consistent in his praise for OSU on offense and defense all night.

I'm dreading the thought of Fox having the Super Bowl and next year's BCS series. They seem to be more concerned with gadgets than getting the story.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

Come on guys, he's a legend!

Haha, but he's horrible now.

He said something in the first quarter about how the drum major dropped the baton, and Fouts says something fucking stupid like "lots of pressure in big games for everybody Keith." I can't stand Dan Fouts.

apparently you dont remember when joe pa used to do the game...