Top 50 Sports announcers of all time!

[Jimmy Carter]

What do you guys think of the list?

I'm surprised Chris Schenkel is as low on the list as he is.

There's a guy in the top 5 that I'm sure will infuriate many Buckeye fans.

The top 50 network TV announcers of all time - Yahoo! Sports

History will be made on Sunday when John Madden and Al Michaels call Super Bowl XLIII for NBC, as Madden will be completing a career cycle of sorts by working a Super Bowl for his fourth of the four major networks: CBS, Fox, ABC and NBC.
Madden has been slowing down some of late, taking a game off in 2008 with plans to do so again in 2009. NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol named Cris Collinsworth to be Madden’s successor-in-waiting, but so far Madden has refuted talk of retirement.............

 

[Bucklion]

Dick Vitale at 12? Frank Gifford at 15? Jesus, this profession SUCKS.

 

[mooktarr]

Who is Phyllis George? wth?
Where is Harry Carey? wth?

The writer claims this list is a starting point but I doubt if the last 25 even have a claim to be included..

 

[ScriptOhio]

#14

 

[Bucklion]

#14

Hey, the dude does provide biting commentary...

 

[3074326]

Honestly, I'd have trouble making a top 5 announcers of all time list. I hate the majority of them for various reasons.

I do like Al Michaels, good to see him up there.

 

[DaytonBuck]

Gordon Solie? Marty and Joe? Bucky Bockhorn? Lapham and Johannsen?

 

[morbitzerker]

I heard this list a few weeks ago, if I can have a career that resembles anything remotely like anyone on this list, I will have had a fulfilling career.

Dick Vitale at 12? Frank Gifford at 15? Jesus, this profession SUCKS.

Watch it...

 

[BigWoof31]

This list is just "play by play" guys correct? Not color commentators?


Joe Buck is a douche

 

[txbuckeye1983]

28. Joe Morgan

Are you fucking kidding me? Joe Fucking Morgan? And where is Gus Johnson? This is the single worst list I've seen in my life. I vote all evidence of this list, including this thread, be deleted forever.

 

[ScriptOhio]

For the life of me I can't see how Mean Gene Okerlund was left off the list. Check out one of his interviews:

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

They lost me at Joe Buck>Vin Scully. And I hate the Dodgers.

 

[txbuckeye1983]

For the life of me I can't see how Mean Gene Okerlund was left off the list. Check out one of his interviews:

YouTube - Jesse "The Body" Ventura

And while we're at it, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon deserve to be on this list more than half the jackasses that are on it.

 

[BigWoof31]

This is the single worst list I've seen in my life. I vote all evidence of this list, including this thread, be deleted forever.

Absolutely. In fact - by posting in this thread, I think we've all earned a 2 week ban

 

[txbuckeye1983]

Absolutely. In fact - by posting in this thread, I think we've all earned a 2 week ban

I don't know if a ban is in order, but we should delete this thread before more people see this list and have their eyes squirt blood.