Funny Things Announcers Say ...
Lydia Mancini
> I would like to now if people can remember stupid or funny things that
> announcers have said or could say! For example, I'm just waiting for an announcer to say " he's coming down all alone and he gets it up and slips it in!!!".
>Now that would be someything funny to here.
> Heres another example, my friend told me he heard Bob Cole say .....
> " The goalie saw that screen shot!!" Huh? he saw that screen shot then it
> wasn't a screen shot was it. So if anyone has any funny things that an
>announcer has said please put them on the news group so everyone can see how
>silly most of these announcers are, thanks!!!!
Harry Neale, Game 1, NYR 1 - Van 0
[paraphrase]
"If Vancouver doesn't get the next goal it's going to be pretty hard to
come back"
Sheesh.
-- Lydia
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Say.. by Keith Shea...@cs.mun.ca
> announcers have said or could say! For example, I'm just waiting for
an announc
> er to say " he's coming down all alone and he gets it up and slips it in!!!".
> Now that would be someything funny to here.
Nice thread. I've often thought about collecting funny comments and posting
them every few weeks but never get around to it. Anyway, during one of the
last NY/NJ games Gary Thorne mentioned that some of the Canucks figure to
play the Rangers in the finals. He said something like, "The Canucks hope
that the Rangers' series lasts seven games and they all get groin pulls."
Anna
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Glenn Dirtbag Tanner
it was until later. Some announcer commented after a shot hit a goal post:
"If that post hadn't been there, that would have been a goal."
GT
Martin Schofield
: Just about anything Derek Sanderson says about hockey. I get a kick
: out him.
There was one Derekism this year that was pretty stupid. He was talking about
Don Sweeney and started saying "Yep Sweeney leads this team, yep Sweeney and
the boys, yep". Anybody else remember this? What were his exact words?
--- Marty
Leon Dill (3M)
> I would like to now if people can remember stupid or funny things that
> Now that would be someything funny to here.
> " The goalie saw that screen shot!!" Huh? he saw that screen shot then it
> wasn't a screen shot was it. So if anyone has any funny things that an
> announcer has said please put them on the news group so everyone can see how
> silly most of these announcers are, thanks!!!!
>
>
>
>
I remember Al Shaver (North Stars radio play-by-play) telling about the time
he was doing a pre-season game. The North Stars were using minor-league
goalie Larry Dyck (pronounced "Dick"). It was near the end of the game with
the Stars trailing by one. They pulled the goalie with about 1:30 left, which
Al commented at the time seemed too early. Moments later the other team
scores into the empty net. Al, beign disgusted with the move to begin with,
turns to this broadcast partner and (over the air) says, "That's what happens
when you pull your Dyck out in front of 15,000 people."
Best wishes,
Leon
"None of that stinkin' root beer."
Ian Maione
>kei...@cs.mun.ca (Keith Shearman) writes:
>> I would like to now if people can remember stupid or funny things that
>> announcers have said or could say! For example, I'm just waiting for an announcer to say " he's coming down all alone and he gets it up and slips it in!!!".
>>Now that would be someything funny to here.
>> Heres another example, my friend told me he heard Bob Cole say .....
>> " The goalie saw that screen shot!!" Huh? he saw that screen shot then it
>> wasn't a screen shot was it. So if anyone has any funny things that an
>>announcer has said please put them on the news group so everyone can see how
>>silly most of these announcers are, thanks!!!!
>
>
>Harry Neale, Game 1, NYR 1 - Van 0
>
>[paraphrase]
>
>"If Vancouver doesn't get the next goal it's going to be pretty hard to
>come back"
>
>Sheesh.
>
>
>-- Lydia
Why is this so stupid? Neale was obviously trying to say that if the
Rangers got the next goal, the Canucks would have trouble coming back from
a lead of more than one goal, whereas they might be able to come back from
a one-goal defecit. I'm not sure I agree with that, but it's not a
ridiculous comment.
Regards,
Ian
Twelve-Volt Man
Gary Thorne as the New York Rangers clinch the Eastern Conference Title:
1940 IS HISTORY !!!!!!!
I found this amusing for two reasons:
1) Yes, 1940 is history, so is '41, '42,....'91, '92, '93...I've studied them
all in school.
2) Everyone knows that the Rangers have indeed been the Wales Conference
champs since 1940 and still have not won the cup. Just because they got
past NJ doesn't mean that it's all over.
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George Ferguson
"Looks like we're going to overtime."
Exemplary of his lightning quickness.
Derek Sanderson can be the first inductee to this Hall of Fame.
George
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Jacques Raynault
4 against Edmonton to put the series 3-1 in their favour. At that moment,
the CBC announcer wanted to make a memorable quote and said "Well, when the
Edmonton Oilers traded Wayne Gretzki, they traded any plausible chance of
winning the Stanly cup for the next ten years". I dont know, it looked so
right then.
Jacques.
Terence Fullerton
In this same vein, I thought it was pretty humorous in game 6 of
NY/NJ when Nichols shot the puck at Anderson at the end of the
third period. When recapping the penalty the ESPN guys said
something to the effect of "Nichols called for the penalty at -
everybody -19:40 - of the 3rd period."
Terry
ds...@vmsmail.gov.bc.ca
> I would like to now if people can remember stupid or funny things that
> announcers have said or could say! For example, I'm just waiting for an announcer to say " he's coming down all alone and he gets it up and slips it in!!!".
> Now that would be someything funny to here.
> Heres another example, my friend told me he heard Bob Cole say .....
> " The goalie saw that screen shot!!" Huh? he saw that screen shot then it
> wasn't a screen shot was it. So if anyone has any funny things that an
> announcer has said please put them on the news group so everyone can see how
> silly most of these announcers are, thanks!!!!
>
>
>
Don "Dimwit" Whittman during a game in the 1990-91 season.
"The ebb and flow of this game is going back and forth"
This moron should go back to lottery draws where he belongs.
Dan.
Lydia Mancini
>>Harry Neale, Game 1, NYR 1 - Van 0
>>
>>[paraphrase]
>>
>>"If Vancouver doesn't get the next goal it's going to be pretty hard to
>>come back"
>>
>>Sheesh.
>>
>>
>>-- Lydia
>
> Why is this so stupid? Neale was obviously trying to say that if the
>Rangers got the next goal, the Canucks would have trouble coming back from
>a lead of more than one goal, whereas they might be able to come back from
>a one-goal defecit. I'm not sure I agree with that, but it's not a
>ridiculous comment.
I expect a little more intelligent commentary when watching a game.
I don't expect to be told things that I can figure out for myself
without having to watch any part of the action.
km...@minnie.imd.nrc.ca
I once heard a local radio announcer screw up when giving out the details of a
trade. I don't remember the name of the players or teams involved, but the
announcer said "____ has been traded to ____ for ____ and two daft pricks".
km
Keith Shearman
Barry Pearce
> In article <2sm815$m...@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> sha...@cs.mcgill.ca (Lydia Mancini) writes:
> >Harry Neale, Game 1, NYR 1 - Van 0
> >
> >"If Vancouver doesn't get the next goal it's going to be pretty hard to
> >come back"
> >
> >Sheesh.
> >
> >-- Lydia
>
> Why is this so stupid? Neale was obviously trying to say that if the
> Rangers got the next goal, the Canucks would have trouble coming back from
> a lead of more than one goal, whereas they might be able to come back from
> a one-goal defecit. I'm not sure I agree with that, but it's not a
> ridiculous comment.
>
> Regards,
> Ian
Ian, as far as Lydia is concerned, anything Harry or Bob or for that matter
Ron Maclean says is ridiculous. On the other hand Dick has nothing but rich,
knowledgable,poignant,and insightful views on hockey which he expresses with
deep insight and a colorful style of prose.
--BP
Lydia Mancini
>In article 48...@neat.cs.toronto.edu, mai...@cs.toronto.edu (Ian Maione) writes:
>> In article <2sm815$m...@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> sha...@cs.mcgill.ca (Lydia Mancini) writes:
>> >Harry Neale, Game 1, NYR 1 - Van 0
>> >"If Vancouver doesn't get the next goal it's going to be pretty hard to
>> >come back"
>> >Sheesh.
>> Why is this so stupid? Neale was obviously trying to say that if the
>> Rangers got the next goal, the Canucks would have trouble coming back from
>> a lead of more than one goal, whereas they might be able to come back from
>> a one-goal defecit. I'm not sure I agree with that, but it's not a
>> ridiculous comment.
>> Regards,
>> Ian
>Ian, as far as Lydia is concerned, anything Harry or Bob or for that matter
>Ron Maclean says is ridiculous. On the other hand Dick has nothing but rich,
>knowledgable,poignant,and insightful views on hockey which he expresses with
>deep insight and a colorful style of prose.
I can speak for myself, and I did, thankyou.
Why am I not surprised that once again you try this stupid Montreal garbage?
Perhaps you are biased and you try to associate everything in hockey to
the Flames, but don't try that on other people.
Greg Weston
This is a great thread. One that springs to mind immediately is Jiggs McDonald
and Eddie Westfall in the 4-OT Isles-Caps game in 1987.
The game started the night before Easter Sunday and when it turned past midnight
jiggs said, "it is now Easter Sunday" and eddie replied, "And which team will
find the Easter egg." Typical announcer humor. the stupidity came in because
after every good save or blown opportunity FOR THE NEXT TWO OVERTIMES OR SO,
jiggs and eddie exclaimed, "Oh, no Easter egg on that one for Flatley," or
whoever.
They had me that close to turning off the sound for maybe the greatest game I've
ever seen.
But on a more serious note, there have to be better announcers in the United
States then the ones ESPN pays the big bucks too. thorne gets so many names
wrong it's amazing. In the last game he called Antoski"Bure" for half a shift.
I don't know about you but I think I could tell the difference between 6'4" 240
Antoski and 5'10" 180 bure. He also talked about what a difference Adams was
making in the Vancouver nets.
That's just a sampling from the last game, but he does this 5-10 times a period.
And don't get me started on darren pang, who spent a whole series talking about
Toronto goalie Denis Potvin. i guess that explains why Denny didn't come to
play for the Rangers this year- the Leafs must have made a better offer. :-)
Is it just me or does this bother anybody else?
Greg
Lydia Mancini
>I think the confusion there is that Bure is number 10 and Antoski is number
>18. If you are far away enough (and I think the newscasters are quite far
>away in MSG) that can be 'excusable'. Still, the guy should have gotten
>a clue from his linemates. Does Hunter look anything Linden??
>Jim Peplinski would have said:
>"The team that wins the game will be the one the won that puts the puck in
>the net more times than the opposition puts the puck in their net...."
I remember Harry Neale's pregame playoff lists fondly:
For Team X - Goal scorers must score.
I guess that's why they're paying him the big bucks.
Ian Maione
>I think the confusion there is that Bure is number 10 and Antoski is number
>18. If you are far away enough (and I think the newscasters are quite far
>away in MSG) that can be 'excusable'. Still, the guy should have gotten
>a clue from his linemates. Does Hunter look anything Linden??
>
>Jim Peplinski would have said:
>
>"The team that wins the game will be the one the won that puts the puck in
>the net more times than the opposition puts the puck in their net...."
>
nearly every time a coach or player is asked what their team has to do
the next game to win, the answer boils down very quickly to the above.
What I don't understand is why they spend so much time saying it. Usually
you get something like "Well, if our defense can shut them down, and our
offense can get on track and put the puck in the net and we get good
goaltending....".
Regards,
Ian
>
Jason Man-Kai Yeung
18. If you are far away enough (and I think the newscasters are quite far
away in MSG) that can be 'excusable'. Still, the guy should have gotten
a clue from his linemates. Does Hunter look anything Linden??
Jim Peplinski would have said:
"The team that wins the game will be the one the won that puts the puck in
the net more times than the opposition puts the puck in their net...."
Jason
jye...@sfu.ca
Peter M. Saama
[stuff deleted]
>
>But on a more serious note, there have to be better announcers in the United
>States then the ones ESPN pays the big bucks too. thorne gets so many names
>wrong it's amazing. In the last game he called Antoski"Bure" for half a shift.
>I don't know about you but I think I could tell the difference between 6'4" 240
>Antoski and 5'10" 180 bure. He also talked about what a difference Adams was
>making in the Vancouver nets.
>
[stuff deleted]
>Is it just me or does this bother anybody else?
>
Yea, it bothers me too that not only do the ESPN announcers get the names wrong but they
frequently engage in irrelevant discussions missing the critical calls!!! I guess the
excitement from the game causes the announcers to forget their responsibilities.
Peter
Lorne Epp
Well, a few days ago John McKeachie of BCTV wondered aloud about how
a few coast-to-coast flights would affect "those geriatric legs in the
blue shirts".
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Lorne Epp e...@mala.bc.ca
Lorne Epp
>
> Well, a few days ago John McKeachie of BCTV wondered aloud about how
> a few coast-to-coast flights would affect "those geriatric legs in the
> blue shirts".
>
How could I have forgotten Ton Larscheid: "This is BULLSHIT!!"
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Lorne Epp e...@mala.bc.ca
targ...@ecs.umass.edu
cobra.c...@Dartmouth.EDU (Cobra Commander) writes:
>Just about anything Derek Sanderson says about hockey. I get a kick
>out him.
>
Three of my favorite Derekisms:
1. During a break in the action in a B's-Montreal game a few years
back, Derek just comes out of nowhere and says, "Y'know Fred,
you say BOY, you say TOY, it's ROY not Roo-ah."
2. When Bob Sweeney played with the B's and was having a good game-
"Y'know Fred, you've got your Mario Lemieux, you've got your
Gretzkys, gotta include Bob Sweeney in there - potential 70
goal scorer!"
3. My favorite: When Nilan was with the B's, he made this really
good play; went around a defenseman 1 on 1, deked the goalie
and scored. Derek described Nilan's play as "shades of Rocket
Richard." On Derek's comparing Nilan and Richard in the same
sentence, Fred called it "sacrilege."
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In one of the Red Wings' games this year where the Wings were trailing by a
goal in the 3rd, Mickey Redmond said: "The Wings need to do something here to
win this" to which Dave Strater responded: "That would probably have to be:
score a goal"
Well, it was funny to me at the time.
Laurie Marshall
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>> announcers have said or could say! For example, I'm just waiting for an announcer to say " he's coming down all alone and he gets it up and slips it in!!!".
>>Now that would be someything funny to here.
>> Heres another example, my friend told me he heard Bob Cole say .....
>> " The goalie saw that screen shot!!" Huh? he saw that screen shot then it
>> wasn't a screen shot was it. So if anyone has any funny things that an
>>announcer has said please put them on the news group so everyone can see how
>>silly most of these announcers are, thanks!!!!
>
>
>
>>KEIFFER
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VAN. vs NYR (Game 3), STANLEY CUP FINALS 06/04/94
About eight minutes into the 3rd period, Brian Leetch spears Jeff
Courtnall.
GARY THORNE: "Courntnall is down ... I think that was below the stomach .."
BILL CLEMENT: "He's skating towards the bench ... and he looks like he is
HOLDING his GROIN"
Gee!! Whiz!
Peter
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Christine Hughes
insightful comments (to his credit he is getting better).
1. After a first period of the Leafs/Sharks series when the Leafs were up
1-0, Barry offered this indepth analysis: "San Jose needs to score a goal."
That was it - I assume he meant quickly....
2. He was going into this long story about travel and how the west coast
teams are used to it, etc. etc. And he said something like "This will be
the telling period because the travel will be trying to have its effect."
First time I heard that "travel" was a living, behaving, being.
3. He constantly repeats himself as in "Vancouver will be speeding across
the blue line and the D will be scared of the speed which Vancouver has
over the blueline and the D will be going back because they are scared of
the speed....."
What I really hate is how the ESPN announcers have to call every player by
their full name, sometimes with adjectives: "Pavel Bure shoots the puck in
and Mark Messier is around the boards and gets it out to Glen Anderson" or
"little Dougie Gilmour" or "little Cliff Ronning" (apparently Ronning
doesn't mind when people call him little - yeah right Pang.) Sorry for my
rantings - I miss HNIC.
Christine Hughes
chu...@uncmvs.oit.unc.edu
George Chamberlin in Sunny South Florida
=But on a more serious note, there have to be better announcers in the United
=States then the ones ESPN pays the big bucks too. thorne gets so many names
=wrong it's amazing. In the last game he called Antoski"Bure" for half a shift.
=I don't know about you but I think I could tell the difference between 6'4" 240
=Antoski and 5'10" 180 bure. He also talked about what a difference Adams was
=making in the Vancouver nets.
=That's just a sampling from the last game, but he does this 5-10 times a period.
=Is it just me or does this bother anybody else?
Greg,
Welcome to the club! Below is part of a February post on the subject.
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Right - Gary can do other sports. He was so bad as Bob Murphy's partner
on the Met's radio casts that Murphy was constantly correcting Thorne's
miscalls during the games (and Thorne was soon gone). Thorne has a few
problems which put him in the "worst" category along with Chevrier of
TSN. 1) He is as blind as a bat. 2) Talks as though he didn't get past
4th grade English. 3) He is a blowhard. 4) He doesn't know hockey
terminology. 5) Has a habit of talking about what just happened when he
should be talking about what's going on NOW. 6) He usually is 2 players
behind regarding possession of the puck. 7) His attempts at officiating
(calling off-sides, icing, penalties are a joke [see 1 above].
8) He doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground about hockey.
He does have a great voice and I suspect his only other strong
point is that he works cheap.
Examples: Fri game Chi-Buf, Buf player loses helmet front of net, skates
toward boards, turns around to come back to slot, gets checked by Chi
player(Smith). Thorne's call: "Smith checked him so hard he knocked his
helmet off." Wrong again Gary! Didn't you ever wonder why Thorne uses
"near side boards" when the good play-by-play guys say "boards"? Does
he really think it's important for us to know where the action is in
relation to HIM? What is "back hand glove"? What is "percentage save"?
Why does he use the future tense when speaking about something that just
happened?
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Add "glove-hand pass" for "hand-pass", "wide-side board" for boards
(or wall) and how come we never hear "narrow-side board". The best
question is why did ESPN hire a near-sighted asshole who doesn't know
hockey ????? A good part of each game Mr. Thorne does I watch with no sound.
Partial list of better announcers in US:Peckham,Cusik,Emery,McDonald,
Rimer,Miller,Foley,Rosen,Strader.
George
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TB or not TB, that is congestion. Consumption be done about it?
Of cough, of cough. -Woody Allen TWICE: Once too often. -A Bierce
rhas...@pearl.tufts.edu
A couple of things the Bruins announcers have said in the past have
struck me as amusing, I'm not sure if anyone else will thinks so, but if you
don't..... tough! I think they are, so there! Anyways.... one night The Bruins
are lighting up the Nordiques, Fred Cusick says, "The Nordiques should just
drop down to the AHL..." The response from Derek Sanderson was a long drawn
out, "FREEEDDDDD!!!!". It was funny to hear it, but I suppose it loses
something in the posting. Another one from Derek a couple of years ago when a
Bruins opponent lost a couple of teeth was, "He'll be spittin' out the
chicklets in a few seconds....".
Bob Hassell
Louise Vrande
were terrible. They won 6 or 7 games all season. By the end of the
year, the announcers were getting pretty bored, frustrated, etc. (never
mind how we fans felt) One night one of the announcers (don't recall his
name) called them the Craps. Don't you just know that's what they all
called them when the microphones were off?
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Lydia Mancini
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> Three of my favorite Derekisms:
> 1. During a break in the action in a B's-Montreal game a few years
> back, Derek just comes out of nowhere and says, "Y'know Fred,
> you say BOY, you say TOY, it's ROY not Roo-ah."
Funny how he doesn't make fun of Ray being a French Canadian.
> 2. When Bob Sweeney played with the B's and was having a good game-
> "Y'know Fred, you've got your Mario Lemieux, you've got your
> Gretzkys, gotta include Bob Sweeney in there - potential 70
> goal scorer!"
> 3. My favorite: When Nilan was with the B's, he made this really
> good play; went around a defenseman 1 on 1, deked the goalie
> and scored. Derek described Nilan's play as "shades of Rocket
> Richard." On Derek's comparing Nilan and Richard in the same
> sentence, Fred called it "sacrilege."
After reading this, I can understand where most Boston fans get their
classlessness from (I could only digest 1 period of him).
I swear, every flame it seems has these type of ingredients.
I hope this guy hasn't got every Boston fan brainwashed.
By the way, what does Fred do when Derek says this sort of stupidity?
Mike D'Amico
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 15:27:36 GMT
When the Ottawa Senators entered the league last season
they hired Dean Brown as their play-by-play man. Dean had
previously been the play-by-play man for the Ottawa Rough
Riders of the Canadian Football League.
During a preseason game last year there was a goal mouth
scramble and the Senators managed to score. An excited
Dean Brown proceeded to shout into the microphone
"Touchdown!".
Mike D'Amico
BNR
Ottawa, Ontario
Barry Pearce
> ba...@cal.DCS-Systems.COM writes:
>
> >In article 48...@neat.cs.toronto.edu, mai...@cs.toronto.edu (Ian Maione) writes:
> >> In article <2sm815$m...@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> sha...@cs.mcgill.ca (Lydia Mancini) writes:
>
> >> >Harry Neale, Game 1, NYR 1 - Van 0
>
> >> >"If Vancouver doesn't get the next goal it's going to be pretty hard to
> >> >come back"
>
> >> >Sheesh.
>
> >> Why is this so stupid? Neale was obviously trying to say that if the
> >> Rangers got the next goal, the Canucks would have trouble coming back from
> >> a lead of more than one goal, whereas they might be able to come back from
> >> a one-goal defecit. I'm not sure I agree with that, but it's not a
> >> ridiculous comment.
>
> >Ron Maclean says is ridiculous. On the other hand Dick has nothing but rich,
> >knowledgable,poignant,and insightful views on hockey which he expresses with
> >deep insight and a colorful style of prose.
>
> I can speak for myself, and I did, thankyou.
>
> Why am I not surprised that once again you try this stupid Montreal garbage?
> Perhaps you are biased and you try to associate everything in hockey to
> the Flames, but don't try that on other people.
>
stated in previous articles what you think of Bob,Harry,and Ron. It is also
well known what you think of Dick. If you don't want people to form opinions
on your comments then don't make them.
Why am I not surprised that once again you try this stupid Calgary garbage?
Perhaps you are biased and you try to associate everything in hockey to
the Habs, but don't try that on other people.
--BP
Martin Schofield
: targ...@ecs.umass.edu writes:
: [stuff deleted]
: > Three of my favorite Derekisms:
: > 1. During a break in the action in a B's-Montreal game a few years
: > back, Derek just comes out of nowhere and says, "Y'know Fred,
: > you say BOY, you say TOY, it's ROY not Roo-ah."
: Funny how he doesn't make fun of Ray being a French Canadian.
: After reading this, I can understand where most Boston fans get their
: classlessness from (I could only digest 1 period of him).
1 whole period! Are you sure you could take him for that long :)
Watch the classlessness stuff, Lydia, which team bought a league to get a
player? Which team is owned by a brewery, Roy is being paid by legions of
alcoholic teenagers. (I'm just kidding, Shawmut bank is involved with the B's
meaning Bourque is being paid by forclosures).
: I hope this guy hasn't got every Boston fan brainwashed.
: By the way, what does Fred do when Derek says this sort of stupidity?
After awhile you learn how to tune him out, Fred however is part of the game
for me. It's just not the same without him (especially with the no-talents on
ESPN). Fred usually doesn't say anything, but you can tell. I think the
original with three derekisms contained his response to Nilan=Richard..
He probably has as many B's fans brainwashed as there were Canadiens "fans"
rioting on St. Catherine's. Don't worry most of us know the difference
between Lemieux and Bob Sweeney :)
--- Marty
Cobra Commander
msc...@cs.umb.edu (Martin Schofield) writes:
> Don't worry most of us know the difference
> between Lemieux and Bob Sweeney :)
Arrgh...Oh god... the realization just hit me. I guess its okay that
Boston got rid of Sweeney then. After the remorse of the past two
years thinking that the bruins let the greatest talent in hockey ever
get away for nothing. Phew... Now I'm angry at Derek. I think I'm
going to write him a letter complaining about him brainwashing me. Any
other B's fans want to join in?
_cc
Sorry, sarchasm comes easily when you're the only person left on campus
doing school work.
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Jason Bittle
does Sabres play-by-play)..
A few Jeaneretteisms..
"La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-laFontaine".. Once, during the Christmas holiday, he
did the 'la`s' like 'Deck the Halls.. (you know, fa la la la la...)
"Alexander the Great" (Mogilny). It was awesome when he scored 76 goals two
years ago, cause we got to hear him say it 76 times..
"Fuhr/Hasek made an HUGE SAVE", to a point of where he is screaming into the
mic.
"More 'chuk's then a charles convention." (Made in reference to the fact
where the Sabres once had Andreychuk, Malarchuk, Hawerchuk, and that seemed to
be a common name.
And, probably the second most favorite, last years sweep of Boston:
"may day, may day, may day, brad may" (after he took a pass from LaFontaine,
deked by Bourque, and then drew Moog out of the net and scored, in OT to beat
the B's 6-5, and 4-0 in the series.)
And, the best call to date:
"...Dawe clears it out in front, that hit a leg, here's Hannan... he scores...
Dave Hannan.. and this series is going back to where Jimmy Hoffa is buried,
back to the Meadowlands in New Jersey..."
After Dave "The General" Hannan scored in the 4th OT period to win game six,
1-0. (Hasek, 70 saves, no goals. a shut out streak of 125:41, which in
itself is awesome.)
ciao,
Jason Bittle bit...@antares.canisius.edu
Go Sabres Dominik Hasek for Vezina | Go Bills Strive for Five in 95!
Go Bandits John Tavares! MILL MVP!! | Go Sharks Arturs Irbe for Hart
"... I don't think Canisius wants me speaking for them..."
Lydia Mancini
is often wide, he'll say the shot was wide by X feet/inches. What Dick, do
you carry binoculars that have rulers on the lenses?
Also, whenever there is a small ruckus on the ice, he calls it another
"gathering of the clan".
That's all I can remember for now.
Lydia Mancini
>: targ...@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>: [stuff deleted]
>: > Three of my favorite Derekisms:
>: > 1. During a break in the action in a B's-Montreal game a few years
>: > back, Derek just comes out of nowhere and says, "Y'know Fred,
>: > you say BOY, you say TOY, it's ROY not Roo-ah."
>: Funny how he doesn't make fun of Ray being a French Canadian.
>I remember this one, he was reading a sign somebody was holding up.
>: After reading this, I can understand where most Boston fans get their
>: classlessness from (I could only digest 1 period of him).
>1 whole period! Are you sure you could take him for that long :)
>Watch the classlessness stuff, Lydia, which team bought a league to get a
>player? Which team is owned by a brewery, Roy is being paid by legions of
>alcoholic teenagers. (I'm just kidding, Shawmut bank is involved with the B's
>meaning Bourque is being paid by forclosures).
I did not mean to imply that all Bruins fans are classness, I was just
saying that this is perhaps where those that are get their traits from.
Boy, you gotta be really careful how you write things around here :-)
Lydia Mancini
[stuff deleted]
>Not once did I mention Montreal. Not once did I mention the Flames. You have
>stated in previous articles what you think of Bob,Harry,and Ron. It is also
>well known what you think of Dick. If you don't want people to form opinions
>on your comments then don't make them.
Just because I like Irvin and hate Cole, it does not mean that I cannot
objectively form an opinion on an issue related to announcers.
I was saying something I thought was dumb, and I would have thought so
had any other announcer said it.
You have implied time and again every time I say something that I am
biased, and you have brought in a Montreal angle every time.
I don't appreciate people making assumptions on what I believe or don't
believe. I never said Irvin didn't have faults, and certainly don't
think everything he says is prose (which was the Montreal angle). Cole
and Neale have their moments too, but those are overshadowed by the stupid
things they say. As for MacLean, well read on.
>Why am I not surprised that once again you try this stupid Calgary garbage?
>Perhaps you are biased and you try to associate everything in hockey to
>the Habs, but don't try that on other people.
How original? Thought that up all by yourself eh?
Alex A Goddard
The best "funny announcer" I can recall was from last season, when the
Sabres were in Quebec. Some derranged, drunken maniac jumped from the
crowd onto the Sabre's bench. I'm sure you all saw the highlights of Rob
Ray punching this poor loser about 30 times right in the chops! Anyway,
after the refs turf the beaten-up drunk out of the stadium, Jim Lorenz of
Fox-29 (Sabres TV) says "I guess it's FAN APPRECIATION
NIGHT in Quebec City".
As for "stupid announcer"s, I have 3:
1. Jim Peplinski: Does he ever shut his mouth?
2. Dick Irvin: If it's not Montreal it's crap (because
my daddy said so)
3. Bob Cole: Have you ever noticed that he always says where
each player is from while doing the play-by-play?
For example: "Kingston native Doug Gilmour moves
the puck up ice to Kelvington native Wendel Clark,
and he lays a huge body check on Haliburton native
Bernie Nicholls" etc...
Cheers
Alex
Cindy Flint
>IMHO, Rick Jeanerette is one of the best radio announcers in the game. (he
>does Sabres play-by-play)..
I agree with you here 100%. (I know there are some of you out there, who
shall remain nameless, who DISagree 100%).
When I was a little girl I remember WGR did a little sound byte with Rick
Jeanerette's words in between the lines "The opera ain't over 'till the fat
lady sings."
I'll never forget him yelling: "He scores! He scores! He scores! He scores!
John VAN BOX Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeer". (sorry if I spelled that wrong.) I guess
that isn't exactly "funny" but it was memorable nevertheless.
He was the radio man at CJRN in Niagara Falls and there were often times
when he couldn't even talk the next day.
Cindy "I wasn't a Sabres fan but my dad was" Flint
--
Cindy Flint: fli...@govonca.gov.on.ca
Even if these were the opinions of my employer I wouldn't be the one
expressing them.
James Mcqueen
his top ten bloopers in the paper recently. Unfortunately i didn't see
that but a good one i actually heard him say was during one of the last
Canucks regular season games. Whitmore was playing net that night and was
having an awsome game. Right after a spectacular stop Tom yells: Ohh
Jimmy, Whitmore's just unconcious tonight! (say what?)
James
Colin Layfield
commentators doing a Flames playoff game (As few as they are). He said
something to the effect of "A team has never lost a playoff game when
they have had a shutout". I think Jim Peplinski was his co-host and there
was a long pause when Jim said "Gee, that's very interesting care to
elborate" (or something to that effect). Pretty lame comment. Of course
at least we don't have to suffer with the losers on ESPN. They have GOT
to be the worst play by play commentators in the world. (Of course TSN
(The Toronto Sports Network) come a close second. The Leaf Bias makes me
puke).
Colin Layfield | "I said what I meant and I've never pretended
| as so many others do intending just to please
The University of Calgary | if I damned your point of view
Computer Science | could you turn the other cheek"
layf...@cpsc.ucalgary.ca | - Guns 'n Roses "Don't Damn Me"
Brian P. Thornton
In a previous article, greg...@delphi.com (Greg Weston) says:
>
>
>This is a great thread. One that springs to mind immediately is Jiggs McDonald
>and Eddie Westfall in the 4-OT Isles-Caps game in 1987.
>
>The game started the night before Easter Sunday and when it turned past midnight
>jiggs said, "it is now Easter Sunday" and eddie replied, "And which team will
>find the Easter egg." Typical announcer humor. the stupidity came in because
>after every good save or blown opportunity FOR THE NEXT TWO OVERTIMES OR SO,
>jiggs and eddie exclaimed, "Oh, no Easter egg on that one for Flatley," or
>whoever.
>
>They had me that close to turning off the sound for maybe the greatest game I've
>ever seen.
>
>But on a more serious note, there have to be better announcers in the United
>States then the ones ESPN pays the big bucks too. thorne gets so many names
>wrong it's amazing. In the last game he called Antoski"Bure" for half a shift.
>I don't know about you but I think I could tell the difference between 6'4" 240
>Antoski and 5'10" 180 bure. He also talked about what a difference Adams was
>making in the Vancouver nets.
>
>That's just a sampling from the last game, but he does this 5-10 times a period.
>And don't get me started on darren pang, who spent a whole series talking about
>Toronto goalie Denis Potvin. i guess that explains why Denny didn't come to
>play for the Rangers this year- the Leafs must have made a better offer. :-)
>
>Is it just me or does this bother anybody else?
>
>Greg
>
Greg -- I find Gary Thorne to be extremely annoying, especially because
I am used to MSG announcers John Davidson and Sam Rosen, but am living
in Philly and don't have a satellite dish. I tend to turn off the sound
on ESPN, and turn on the FAN to listen to Howie Rose and Sal Messina.
Greg Weston
>Greg -- I find Gary Thorne to be extremely annoying, especially because
>I am used to MSG announcers John Davidson and Sam Rosen, but am living
>in Philly and don't have a satellite dish. I tend to turn off the sound
>on ESPN, and turn on the FAN to listen to Howie Rose and Sal Messina.
Howie and "Red Light" Messina. Does Marv Albert ever do games on the FAN
anymore.
He is the best radio hockey guy I've ever heard- with other good announcers I
can
get a clear mental picture of where the puck is and who has it, but with Marv i
could close my eyes and clearly see all 12 men on the ice. i don't know how he
does it. You can get the FAN in Philly? Consider yourself lucky. I, too, and
am dish-less and now live in Louisiana, where all I get is ESPN and an
occasional
Blues gameon KNOX, I mean KMOX. And no hockey in the local papers during the
regular season- JEEZ.
Thank you for letting me flame a bit. i feel a little better now.
Greg
Mark Wozniak, WBFO
I remember watching a New York Islanders game several years ago, at
the Boston Garden, on WOR-TV. Jiggs McDonald and Eddie Westfall were
the guys in the booth. About five minutes into the first period, one
of the Bruins took a run at an Islander player. Well, that got Westfall
incensed, as he said "When I was playing, we didn't have that cheap
shot shit". There was a very heavy silence that followed, before
Westfall started chuckling, and the game went on. McDonald was holding
back a laugh or two as well.
---
Mark Wozniak
WBFO 88.7 FM Buffalo
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Brian P. Thornton
In a previous article, greg...@delphi.com (Greg Weston) says:
Greg -- yes, Marv does games still -- my roommate and I listen to all
the games on the FAN every year since we are here in Philly at school.
In fact, for Game 5 of this series and for Game 7 tonight, Marv and Howie
will be switching off each period to call the game (no one will be
replacing Sal :-) ).