Bob’s call

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

If you had any passion for UT you would have been at the game instead of complaing about Kesling. Greatest day for Tennessee football in quite awhile and this your complaint. Go and continue with your crappy day and attitude I choose to scream Buck Fama

Immature post on your part. Well some of us were not able to attend due to many reasons and even if we did have the ability to go didn’t have the financial ability to pay 500-1500 a ticket which how much they were going for on some online ticket brokers.

 

[Otis07]

Some of us can't go to Tennessee games because of physical problems

And some have ****** attitudes, oh by the way I am also disabled

 

[Otis07]

Immature post on your part. Well some of us were not able to attend due to many reasons and even if we did have the ability to go didn’t have the financial ability to pay 500-1500 a ticket which how much they were going for on some online ticket brokers.

And it is mature to wine about a football commentator,

 

[Iam4utalways]

Another bash Bob thread. We all miss JW, for good reason. The way he described the game was special. JW had so many catch phrases that are taken off the table for Bob to use. Anytime I hear a broadcaster use “Give him 6.”, I think of JW and that the rip-off artist isn’t fooling anyone. Same goes for many others that JW immortalized while he was becoming a broadcast legend.

I don’t need a sportscast to generate excitement over a Vol ballgame.

 

[ZZ13]

Believe it or not I have never listened to Kesling call a game. Sirius/XM had the Volnetwork broadcast on this morning. So I listened to the second half. It was not at all what I expected based on all the negative I’ve read about him on this board. His excitement level when the Vols did something good was there and his call of the action was accurate (since I had watched the game I know what had happened before he called it). The areas of improvement I would have enjoyed are two simple items. Tell us what type of play (pitchout, sweep, dive, slant, wheel route, post, out pattern, etc) and where the play is going (is it a run to the left, up the middle or to the right - same with passes). And keep us continually informed of the progress the ballcarrier is making, to build suspense. On the interception by Bama that got overturned by PI, he said it was intercepted at the goal line, then suddenly the runner was at the 50, then suddenly at the 20.

His catch phrases are flat and monotone (eg, “ what a turn of events”, “what a game”, “to the checkerboards”) but overall I was just fine with the call.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Wasn’t Bob’s call something like “it’s a knuckleball heading towards the goal post. It’s over the UPRIGHTS. ??? Uh. No. It cleared the CROSSBAR. Epic Bob. He is what he is.

 

[ThreatLevelOrange]

Could you imagine Mike Keith calling that? His microphone might’ve exploded.

Keith should call college and Kessling should call NFL.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

It's time for a new voice of the new Vols.

 

[OrangeTsar]

How can I find this?

There is a thread with the complete game call

 

[cbrown]

That job appears to be unique in that you really can’t lose it due to poor performance/mediocre talent. He’s there until he retires unless he were to be removed for something outside the booth.

 

[Volfaninfl2]

Damn, Nessler's call on CBS just blows Bob's call away. Simply "He got it!" and let the picture do the talking. Perfect.

Next words were, “And here they come!” Perfect.

 

[kingkisses]

If you had any passion for UT you would have been at the game instead of complaing about Kesling. Greatest day for Tennessee football in quite awhile and this your complaint. Go and continue with your crappy day and attitude I choose to scream Buck Fama

this sounds sarcastic in the beginning but not so much in the end; some couldn't be there. A lot of people would have been there if given a choice.

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

And it is mature to wine about a football commentator,

No it’s not. If he is not good there is nothing wrong about complaint. Just like coaches, players, etc. I’m sure you have done it too.

 

[Otis07]

this sounds sarcastic in the beginning but not so much in the end; some couldn't be there. A lot of people would have been there if given a choice.

My real point was the constant crapping on Kesling, there is alot of ways to avoid listening to Bob

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

My real point was the constant crapping on Kesling, there is alot of ways to avoid listening to Bob

I don’t listen to him much and watch the broadcast. Most of the criticism in this thread is the call on the FG and Kesling earned the criticism for his underwhelming call.

 

[PowerT4me]

Could you imagine Mike Keith calling that? His microphone might’ve exploded.

Snap....set.....kick.......GOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

Do we need a Kesling thread after ever game

 

[rocketskates]

Snap....set.....kick.......GOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

I also love his “drops back to throw…..SAAACKED!”

 

[ArmyVol697]

Can someone post the actual call by Kesling so I can be my own judge?

 

[PandamoniumReigns]

Do we need a Kesling thread after ever game

Easy way to fix this problem.

Fire Bumbling Bob. I've said it before ... If any of us sucked at our jobs for 20+ years to the level he has sucked at his, we'd have been fired ten times over and two more times after that.

 

[WestTennesseeVol]

Do we need a Kesling thread after ever game

People need to find something to complain about now that we’re good again

 

[vettefool]

Some of us can't go to Tennessee games because of physical problems

You don’t have to explain to that idiot. He probably wasn’t there either. On house arrest I’d guess.

 

[kingkisses]

someone edited Ward's voice.

 

[brockytop]

I loved Bobs non stop discussion about the goal posts and claiming they couldn’t leave the stadium. Poor guys blood sugar must have been low. But he’s always been a poor man’s Mike Thurman.

 

[RockyTop18]

If you had any passion for UT you would have been at the game instead of complaing about Kesling. Greatest day for Tennessee football in quite awhile and this your complaint. Go and continue with your crappy day and attitude I choose to scream Buck Fama

Dude, that is hilarious. I am having a wonderful day thank you very much and I don’t have a crappy attitude about anything. I dunno maybe I long for a call from my home town radio guy that will last through the decades and will live as long as the memories of this game. I long for the days of “No Sir Eeee!!!!!!” Or any of the other multitude of calls in the link below. That was a huge win… but Bob missed a huge opportunity to cement himself with history…