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GreatWhiteNorth said:
John Ward. The voice.

Good night, sweet prince.
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Sad. I will never forget No. Sir. Eee. No. Sir. Eee. Final score Tennessee 20 Florida 17. Pandemonium reigns.


I remember listening to great Skip Carey calls and reading peoples comments on their favorite moments of his calls. So cool what pulls us all together.
 
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For us old timers of a certain age John Ward's voice literally WAS Tennessee sports. Almost none of the games were on TV -- maybe one a year, plus a bowl game? So you either went to the stadium (which my family never did because my dad was too cheap) or the men in the family gathered around the kitchen table and sat there mostly in silence for three hours and listened to John Ward describe the game on the radio. I don't remember exactly when that started to change -- the mid to late 80s, maybe? -- but for most of my childhood that was it. You listened to John Ward on Saturday and then you rushed home from church on Sunday to watch The Johnny Majors Show on TV so you could finally see what you'd heard about the day before.

RIP. This one hits pretty hard.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
For us old timers of a certain age John Ward's voice literally WAS Tennessee sports. Almost none of the games were on TV -- maybe one a year, plus a bowl game? So you either went to the stadium (which my family never did because my dad was too cheap) or the men in the family gathered around the kitchen table and sat there mostly in silence for three hours and listened to John Ward describe the game on the radio. I don't remember exactly when that started to change -- the mid to late 80s, maybe? -- but for most of my childhood that was it. You listened to John Ward on Saturday and then you rushed home from church on Sunday to watch The Johnny Majors Show on TV so you could finally see what you'd heard about the day before.

RIP. This one hits pretty hard.
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I've said it before... Nothing was as gloriously awkward and accidentally funny as John Ward trying to get Johnny Majors through his highlight show.
 
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GAVol said:
I've said it before... Nothing was as gloriously awkward and accidentally funny as John Ward trying to get Johnny Majors through his highlight show.
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Those highlight shows with Majors and then Fulmer were great. I hope they get back to that format with JP.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
For us old timers of a certain age John Ward's voice literally WAS Tennessee sports. Almost none of the games were on TV -- maybe one a year, plus a bowl game? So you either went to the stadium (which my family never did because my dad was too cheap) or the men in the family gathered around the kitchen table and sat there mostly in silence for three hours and listened to John Ward describe the game on the radio. I don't remember exactly when that started to change -- the mid to late 80s, maybe? -- but for most of my childhood that was it. You listened to John Ward on Saturday and then you rushed home from church on Sunday to watch The Johnny Majors Show on TV so you could finally see what you'd heard about the day before.

RIP. This one hits pretty hard.
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Late 80s into the early 90s.
 
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I was a Coppy guy, and think he took the fall for stuff that was universally done everywhere, but man we got lucky to get AA. Everything you want in a guy running your organization. It was refreshing to listen to him on a DOB podcast.
 
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AV_12 said:
I was a Coppy guy, and think he took the fall for stuff that was universally done everywhere, but man we got lucky to get AA. Everything you want in a guy running your organization. It was refreshing to listen to him on a DOB podcast.
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The best thing that happened was McGuirk went away from the Schuerholz/Cox tree and got somebody that can apply analytics to the everyday ball club, not just the FO. Snit already has talked about how much more information he has this year compared to last.

Schuerholz has been a plague the last few years on the organization. I’m convinced of it.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
For us old timers of a certain age John Ward's voice literally WAS Tennessee sports. Almost none of the games were on TV -- maybe one a year, plus a bowl game? So you either went to the stadium (which my family never did because my dad was too cheap) or the men in the family gathered around the kitchen table and sat there mostly in silence for three hours and listened to John Ward describe the game on the radio. I don't remember exactly when that started to change -- the mid to late 80s, maybe? -- but for most of my childhood that was it. You listened to John Ward on Saturday and then you rushed home from church on Sunday to watch The Johnny Majors Show on TV so you could finally see what you'd heard about the day before.

RIP. This one hits pretty hard.
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This is me also. I listened to far more games than I saw in my early years. John Ward was Tennessee football to me.

Note: His Willie Gault call might be my favorite.
 
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