Cool article about Rose's call 20 years ago

[Cynical TyranT]

http://deadspin.com/the-secret-of-the-nhls-greatest-call-location-locatio-1579059465

Thorne was great too. Wish he'd get back to doing NHL games... destroying Emrick.

Click to read more...

 

[Zil]

Thorne is the Orioles' play-by-play man. I doubt he's going anywhere.

 

[Cynical TyranT]

K... so that doesnt mean he wasnt good and that I cant wish he was calling NHL games.

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

I want a new call.

Incredible run, special memories, but im tired of hearing about 1994.

Time to make new memories.

 

[Radek27]

I want a new call.

Incredible run, special memories, but im tired of hearing about 1994.

Time to make new memories.

Says a guy with an Adam Graves avatar

 

[DuaneHewitt]

That's how I heard it, from Howie. I was at my girlfriend's prom with a radio in the pocket of my tux and an earpiece.

Yeah, a new memory would be nice, but that doesn't mean I'll ever get tired of hearing that.

 

[LannysStach]

Says a guy with an Adam Graves avatar

Ha! That's the first thing I noticed, too!

But of course ... I agree with the making new memories part!

 

[HeaveHo94]

I won't be greedy I'll take one every 20 years

 

[nyr2k2]

I read this last night and got all nostalgic.

As HBNYC said, let's make some new memories.

 

[Chief]

Different strokes for different folks. I couldn't stand Thorne. I still cringe when I remember him mispronouncing Malhotra as "Mal-whoretra."

Howie's call will live on forever and I often wished he were doing Ranger radio but listening to him now, he is so out of touch with recent culture - even going back 30 or 40 years! When he references pop culture it's stuff from the 50's and 60's. He comes across as older than his years. Still, the greatest call I've ever heard!

 

[TruBlue]

Thorne is the Orioles' play-by-play man. I doubt he's going anywhere.

...and he wasn't that good either IMO. When a PBP guy can't invest enough effort into learning how to get players last name correct well...besides the same posters who complain about Doc making every SOG sound like a goal totally ignore Thorne being 10X worse about a SOG.

 

[mti79]

Just watched the Gary Thorne call video that is linked and Zelepukin tries to trip Tik after the goal is scored and he's trying to go celebrate.... What a piece of crap move that is....

 

[Miamipuck]

Just watched the Gary Thorne call video that is linked and Zelepukin tries to trip Tik after the goal is scored and he's trying to go celebrate.... What a piece of crap move that is....

Meh, Zelepukin is a really nice guy, he played on my Mens league team.

 

[Miamipuck]

I have the call as a file on my laptop, I listen to the call every time I see the filename.

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

http://deadspin.com/the-secret-of-the-nhls-greatest-call-location-locatio-1579059465

Thorne was great too. Wish he'd get back to doing NHL games... destroying Emrick.

Saw that. A great read.

 

[Zamboner]

That's sweet that Matteau and Howie talk every year on the anniversary.

 

[NCRanger]

Gary Thorne had a knack for somehow incorporating five teams into one game in three different cities in one night. He was also great for making trades in the middle of games.

Example of a Thorne call:

Lemieux comes in over the Ranger line, and Leetch poke checks it away, Graves gets the puck and head mans it Messier on a two on one across the Flyer line, shot!, and WHAT A SAVE BY RICHTER keeping the Penguins ahead 2-1 here in New Jersey.

 

[dstoffa]

http://deadspin.com/the-secret-of-the-nhls-greatest-call-location-locatio-1579059465

That's how I heard it, from Howie. I was at my girlfriend's prom with a radio in the pocket of my tux and an earpiece.

There was one error in the article. The game was not on WFAN that night (when it started). The Mets had a game, too, and the Rangers were bumped to K-Rock. I was upstate NY camping, and was BARELY in reach of K-Rock on the FM car radio. The game was going in and out, and I barely heard the 'pukin goal, which made me want to puke.

Not until the Mets finished up did the game get put on the FAN, and I then had no trouble picking up the game on the AM in the car.

Safe to say there were many people up there that night who had no idea why this college kid was waking them up during "quiet" time with his car horn....