Thom Brennaman, welcome to the unemployment line

His last network football game was "The Catch."
EDIT: MileHigh beat me to it.

 

Was that one of the years there was only a week between the championship games and the Super Bowl?

 

According to his Wikipedia page, Scully and Pat Summerall were given four-week tryouts by CBS early that season with John Madden to see which would get the No. 1 slot for the Super Bowl. CBS picked Summerall and Scully was paired with Stram. Scully told the network to stuff it, so they offered him the conference championship game instead, and I don't think he ever worked for CBS again.

 

Since we're still tripping down memory lane, was extremely luck and continue to be lucky with all the great voices we had in the
Bay area. Hodges and Lon Simmons on the Giants, Simmons on the 49ers, Bill King with the Raiders and Warriors then. Now, Jon Miller and Dave Flemming with the Giants (although I mostly consume Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper), Tim Roye with the Warriors, Ken Korach on my occasional forays into A's land, and the only hockey announcer I've ever known on radio, Dan Rusanowsky with the Sharks. Love Greg Papa, but he's too much of a 49ers homer.

 

The announcer associated most with the Dodgers ended up doing TV on two of the most memorable games in Candlestick Park history, "The Catch" and Game 5 of the 1989 NLCS.

 

In 1988, NBC brought back old powerhouse announcers to do NFL games while coverage of the Seoul Olympics was going on. I wonder if Vin was on that list.

 

Yeah, likely no. Would have been cool, though.

I remember when Mike Patrick had a heart attack and ESPN brought in Summerall for a few months and it was incredible how much he singularly brought to the broadcast, and I liked Mike Patrick well enough at the time.

 

Costas was the late-night studio host in Seoul (Bryant Gumbel was the prime time guy), so I'm guessing Scully's network duties were limited to the Game of the Week.