Tribute Please vote for your 5 favorite listed Network Announcers

[NCRanger]

All this Doc hate, and I’m over here like “someone likes Joe Buck????”

Those of us of a certain age know Emrick as a Devils and Flyers announcer. He joined NBC right after the lockout ended when the network pushed Crosby and the Penguins. He and that whole crew were pro-Pittsburgh. Not to mention, the constant screeching and silly wordsmithing. I also have no doubt that the flat and almost morose McDonough was hired on purpose to be the anti-Emrick.

Joe Buck is just plainly unlikeable. It's mainly because he's so condescending and unrelatable.

 

[HolyHagelin]

Those of us of a certain age know Emrick as a Devils and Flyers announcer. He joined NBC right after the lockout ended when the network pushed Crosby and the Penguins. He and that whole crew were pro-Pittsburgh. Not to mention, the constant screeching and silly wordsmithing. I also have no doubt that the flat and almost morose McDonough was hired on purpose to be the anti-Emrick.

Joe Buck is just plainly unlikeable. It's mainly because he's so condescending and unrelatable.

Well do i remember the pens home announcing team being on all the national broadcast

 

[Salsa Shark]

Gary Thorne and Bob Cole are favs not listed. I can't stand Al Michaels but him and Madden were a good pairing.

I wasn't really into football until the Giants got Manning so Summerall and Madden don't resonate with me.. missed the 80s teams and the mid 90s teams didn't grab me.

 

[RangerLifer]

I was vacillating between Cosell and Keith Jackson for the final vote. Otherwise, it’s Scully, Costas, Marv, and Michaels.

I love Al Michaels. I'll never forget his, "DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?" during the US Olympic hockey win over the Soviet Red Army team.

 

[NYR Viper]

Little known fact…

Bob Costas was my college roommate

(No kidding!)

This demands a much longer post with stories, not a 3 line post. Please elaborate!!!!

@bobbop

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

Always loved Gary Thornes voice. And watching all of the 94 clips, hes in a lot of them. He nailed the guarantee game.

Puck flies up in the air off Messiers stick from one side of the rink to the other-

"Do you believe it!? Do you believe it?! He said they will win Game 6 and he just picked up the hat trick!"

One of the more underrated calls of his generation

 

[bobbop]

This demands a much longer post with stories, not a 3 line post. Please elaborate!!!!

@bobbop

Ok…here you go.

In the summer of 1973 I was working on the sports desk at the Syracuse Post Standard and hanging around the hockey beat. The PR man for the Syracuse Blazers resigned right before Labor Day and I was offered the job, Around the same time, our broadcaster (Andy MacWilliams, late of the Cincinnati Stingers and Chicago Blackhawks) left Syracuse to go to Jacksonville. Bob and I had worked together at the campus radio station and he, Andy and I were all friends. Bob wasn’t a big hockey guy but I convinced him to take the job. It became my job to tutor him on hockey and for most of the season I served as the color man. We had a blast and the Blazers won the NAHL championship. The following year, Bob went to the ABA Spirits of St. Louis and I was promoted to Assistant GM. Here’s a true story for you.

 

[RangersFan]

No Gary, Keith, Ron? Best crew in all of sports, especially back in the day when they had young Kevin Burkhardt working the stands before he became the main guy at FOX NFL.

 

[ecemleafs]

how were the announcers chosen? most of these guys havent been on air in a long time and the majority of the board probably never watched a game with them.