I miss Keith Jackson

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#1
Wish he was still calling college football games. He had the perfect voice for college football.
 
#5
#5
Iconic voice, but there near the end I was tired of it
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#6
#6
he is the winner of the lamest trademark saying. Over rated.

For you young bucks, he's the same broadcaster that announced he voted for Woodson over Peyton. Great guy to miss, huh.
 
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Because one moment in history that had absolutely no effect on either player's NFL future should show that a broadcaster is a terrible person. Great rationale.
 
#8
#8
At the time I didnt care about his NFL career. It was about what he did in college. That's what the Heisman is about - not their pro potential.

But if you want to worship his fat ass, knock yourself out. Guess his dissing of PM didnt mean anything to you.
 
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GreveHaller said:
At the time I didnt care about his NFL career. It was about what he did in college. That's what the Heisman is about - not their pro potential.

But if you want to worship his fat ass, knock yourself out. Guess his dissing of PM didnt mean anything to you.
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He thought Charles Woodson was better than Peyton Manning. What a terrible man.
 
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GreveHaller said:
At the time I didnt care about his NFL career. It was about what he did in college. That's what the Heisman is about - not their pro potential.

But if you want to worship his fat ass, knock yourself out. Guess his dissing of PM didnt mean anything to you.
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1) No, it doesn't.

2) Saying someone is better than somebody else isn't "dissing". Peyton has gotten over it. I think you should too.
 
#11
#11
Exactly what I was thinking. It happened fourteen years ago and it has absolutely no impact on the program today. Get over it.
 
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GreveHaller said:
At the time I didnt care about his NFL career. It was about what he did in college. That's what the Heisman is about - not their pro potential.

But if you want to worship his fat ass, knock yourself out. Guess his dissing of PM didnt mean anything to you.
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If it means much to you at all, perhaps you need to get out more.
 
#14
#14
Regarding the Heisman, the old-timers like that are always going to vote for a Big 10/Notre Dame guy given the chance. Just the way it is. They long for the days when the forward pass was an innovative concept.
 
#15
#15
He called that 85/86 Sugar Bowl correct?

If so, I would agree, he was an iconic voice. Regardless of anything he did off-air, he was an iconic announcer.
 
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#17
The broadcast crew spent the whole fourth quarter of the 1998 Fiesta Bowl in a maudlin swoon over Jackson's retirement. They talked about Jackson's career, what he was going to do in retirement, how much everybody was going to miss him.....in the middle of a national championship game.

Then he was right back on TV next fall doing games on the west coast.

I was pretty well done with him after that.
 
#18
#18
If Vin Scully's future was in doubt, don't you think sports networks worldwide would do the same?
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#20
He was a Pac 10 Homer. Thought he was overrated.
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#21
#21
Exactly, pissed me off so bad.

Vercingetorix said:
The broadcast crew spent the whole fourth quarter of the 1998 Fiesta Bowl in a maudlin swoon over Jackson's retirement. They talked about Jackson's career, what he was going to do in retirement, how much everybody was going to miss him.....in the middle of a national championship game.

Then he was right back on TV next fall doing games on the west coast.

I was pretty well done with him after that.
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Vercingetorix said:
The broadcast crew spent the whole fourth quarter of the 1998 Fiesta Bowl in a maudlin swoon over Jackson's retirement. They talked about Jackson's career, what he was going to do in retirement, how much everybody was going to miss him.....in the middle of a national championship game.

Then he was right back on TV next fall doing games on the west coast.

I was pretty well done with him after that.
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I have to agree, that whole thing did irk me after the fact. I don't care that he voted for Woodson but I do have to say he was over the top in hyping Woodson in the Rose Bowl against Washington St. In particular one of the last plays of the game was an incomplete pass by Leaf and Jackson starting going off how Woodson intercepted the ball and ended the game, when it was really wasn't even that close to an interception.

And he really should have stayed retired because his call of the Texas/USC game was awful. I lost count how many times he said he couldn't see.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
The broadcast crew spent the whole fourth quarter of the 1998 Fiesta Bowl in a maudlin swoon over Jackson's retirement. They talked about Jackson's career, what he was going to do in retirement, how much everybody was going to miss him.....in the middle of a national championship game.

Then he was right back on TV next fall doing games on the west coast.

I was pretty well done with him after that.
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That was some BS.
 
#25
#25
Could never stand the guy. Pac-10 and Big-10 homer. Always hated to see him call a UT game, as you could sense the disdain he seemed to have (and I'm not one of those ESPN hates us crowd). The icing on the cake was the Keith Jackson retirement party that was thrown for him while we were playing the NC game. Pure class, Keith. Make the game about yourself.
 
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