Thom Brennaman, welcome to the unemployment line

LOL!

 

Agrees.

 

That means the long dead dick stockton moves up the chain for Fox NFL broadcasts

 

The Abe Vigoda of national sportscasters.

 

NorCal sj.comers will know of what I speak. The rest of you can Google it. The Bill King Mother's Day story.

 

My best friend sent me the Bill King bio, but I haven't read it. You just gave me an assignment.

Roy Storey told me Bill was the smartest man he ever met in radio. They partnered to broadcast the San Francisco Seals WHL hockey playoffs and Roy said during commercial breaks, Bill would be talking about Ming dynasty politics or 17th century economic theory, then they'd get the cue from the station and he'd pick up the play by play right from the same spot.

The other thing I most remember was the night King was on simulcast from Seattle (of course) on a Warriors road game in the early 70s and some guy came up from behind and dumped an entire pitcher of beer (probably Hamm's or Olympia) on his head while he was doing the post-game wrap. He suddenly just took off running, leaving the screen empty for a couple of minutes before returning all out of breath. He basically apologized, explained why, and carried on like nothing happened, all the while there's foam dripping from his trademark mustache and beard.

 

Still surprises me that an announcer who was the radio guy for an NBA champion, an MLB champion and multiple Super Bowl champion wasn't in any of the HOFs broadcasting wings until recently. He was an incredible announcer. Moving away from the Bay Area, I realized that every metro area didn't have a Bill King. They may have had "their guy" but they weren't half the announcer he was - regardless of the sport.

 

Didn't Marty Brennaman once have a lengthy on-air rant about the Cubs?

 

He’s been cut from his NFL gig.

 

Curious how you go about "investigating" Brennaman. If you are his partner do you say "Well yeah, he used that language all the time - I didn't have a problem with it?"

 

Yes, and gave a speech at Marshall University bitching that the school president was “queer for softball” because the baseball program was so severely underfunded.

 

That is a very good point.