I don't think I'd put Frank Gifford in the top 15 all-time best sports announcers. My point was that they made a great team. Gifford was the sane center to the colorful Meredith and the bombastic Cosell.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:50 PM, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Steve Timko <steveti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Gifford, Cosell and Meredith were the best sports announcing team of all >> time. At least in English. The sum was greater than the individual parts. A >> little bit of Howard went a long way, as anyone who listened to his boxing >> commentary understood. Together they balanced each other. The bad games >> were tolerable because they were so good. Name an announcing team in any >> sport today where that is true. > > The day a man dies is not the day to take a dump on him, so I will just say > that Gifford was one of the greatest football players of his generation, and > a smooth and stable presence in the broadcast booth. I don't really think he > will be remembered as being anywhere close to the top ten in play by play > announcers of all time though. I first got to know him from his work on CBS, > where he was pretty good. But Keith Jackson (they guy Gifford replaced on > MNF) was one of the all time great play by play announcers, not Frank. > > I notice in the announcement they include two interesting phrases, the first > to the effect that his death was sudden, and the second asking for privacy. > I am not sure what triggered those, but my general sense is that he has been > in decline for sometime, perhaps with some kind of dementia? Frank could do > one more service to football if he had arranged for his brain to get the > close once-over to look for signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. > > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
