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Date Posted: 10:54:49 07/09/04 Fri
Author: KY Crusader '75
Subject: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever
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HC '85
's message, "Re: HC/Michigan" on 09:45:15 07/09/04 Fri
Curt Gowdy must have been quite the politician because he surely was one of the worst announcers ever to assault a microphone. I grew up with him as the Red Sox announcer and, fittingly, he left the Red Sox to go national just before the Sox improbably won the 1967 pennant with Ken Coleman behind the mike. Gowdy butchered every name other than Smith or Jones. The network would school him before games, literally instruct him on how to pronounce ethnic names and he just fell back on his convenient goober mispronunciations. My favorite was Lynn Shackleford of UCLA, a long name, but one easily broken down into syllables: Shack-Ell-Ford. For Gowdy it was Shackafa. Gowdy complemented the butchering of names with a nasal voice and lack of insight: he was the whole package of ineptness.
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Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- Gowdy or Fouracre?, 11:15:27 07/09/04 Fri
Pick your Poison. Who would you rather have announce a basketball game?
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Gowdyism -- sader1970, 13:30:22 07/09/04 Fri
While watching a basketball game during my days at HC, there was a NCAA final on TV and Gowdy said about one player: "He's the only senior of the 4 starting seniors on this team." I never could figure out what he was trying to say but, more importantly, no one ever whispered in his ear from the control booth to ask him to clarify what he just said or what he meant.
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Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- HC '85, 14:05:20 07/09/04 Fri
Did a quick google search and found the following at anecdotage.com
Sportscaster Curt Gowdy once recapped the final score of an All-Star baseball game. "And at the game's end, it's National League 6, American League 4," he declared. "The score again is American League 6 and National League 4."
I guess it is a tough call between Fouracre & Gowdy!
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Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- not close...4-acre the worst, 15:24:51 07/09/04 Fri
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Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- Gowdy, Murphy & Martin - among the best, 15:45:29 07/09/04 Fri
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Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- timholycross, 21:08:25 07/10/04 Sat
I'm 52. The Curt Gowdy of the 60's and early 70's was a great broadcaster. He was toast* by the time of the aforementioned game vs. Michigan.
Plus, as ABC did with Al Michaels (doing the NBA finals) this year, the guy was over-used, plugged into events that he didn't have much to do with.
*don't know why- booze, boredom, eyesight, no idea which. He wasn't that old, late 50's at most.
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Re: Gowdy-Worst Announcer Ever -- hc69, 14:48:31 07/12/04 Mon
Growing up in CT, I listened to Mel Allen do the Yankees and Red Barber and Vin Scully do the Dodgers, as well as Gowdy and the Sox. When the Dodgers headed west, Barber joined Allen to make up what was probably the best team of baseball announcers ever. I don't think a lot of people know that Gowdy announced Yankee games with Allen before getting the Sox job. He was a good baseball announcer, but I don't think his knowledge of baseball was as extensive as that of Allen and Barber (who was an award-winning sports columnist as well). His knowledge of basketball was less, and listening to him announce AFL football games (with Al DeRogatis?) bordered on torture.
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Re: Gowdy -- Rick, 22:52:15 07/12/04 Mon
Yea but he was great hosting 'American Sportsman' when he and Ted Williams would go deep sea fishing !
Didn't Gowdy work with Paul Christman as his color man for the AFL games ?
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