Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihuxb!mcal From: mcal@ihuxb.UUCP (Mike Clifford) Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: bring back (gulp!) cosell?? Message-ID: <1162@ihuxb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 12:51:33 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxb.1162 Posted: Mon Sep 30 12:51:33 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 09:28:12 EDT References: <318@ihdev.UUCP> <509@busch.UUCP> <1886@bmcg.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 31 > > In article <318@ihdev.UUCP> rjv@ihdev.UUCP (R. J. Vaughn) writes: > > > > > >is it just me, or is the combo of broadway joe, oj simpson and > > >frank gifford the worst in football broadcasting?? > > >and to top it off, i LIKE gifford! so what can you conclude? > > >any comments?? > > Just do what everybody else is doing. Turn the sound down on TV and the > sound up on CBS radio. I haven't listened to a Monday night game yet > (been busy working) so I don't know if Hank Stram is still on the radio, > but he is informative, light on stats and definetly(sp) NOT BORING. > > I grew up listening to Univ of Illinois on radio and the games always > seem more exciting on radio. > > Bob Nebert It seems that CBS Radio has dropped the Mon. Football broadcasts. Hank Stram and Jack Buck can be found on CBS TV, doing one of the many regional NFL games. I think NBC has picked up the radio broadcasts, because here in the Chicago area, the game can be found on WMAQ (670 AM), Don Criquy (SP?) and Bob Trumpy doing the game. They also do regionally televised games for NBC. Mike Royko, a popular newspaper columnist for the Chicago Tribune, addressed the issue of Joe Namath being difficult to understand. He said that Namath is speaking "yuppie-billy", kind of a down-home, good ol' boy dialect that some yuppies employ so they don't sound pretentious. Royko spoke with a person from Namath's hometown, and this person said that none of them sound like Namath. It was, as usual, an entertaining Royko column. Mike Clifford