Best play by play moment ever

[STICKBOY]

High School Football season is here. What was the best play by play local fotball moment ever?
What was the worst? What was the most funny? What were the engineering disasters you had to endure for the sake of football.

 

[yonkstur]

I don't have a local play by play moment but one involving the Phillies. The Phils had just come out of a rain delay and the ground crew was working on the field. Harry Callas and the late Rich Ashburn were bantering and killing time. The manager then was Jim Fregosi who had just taken over the team and he was on the dugout steps talking to a babe in the front row of the stands. Harry says, "There's Jim Fregosi catching up with his family who joined him today for the game. Jim is talking to his lovely................" At that point Callas or Ashburn must have realized that said babe was not Mrs. Fregosi. And Ashburn filled in the blank with, "talking to his lovely friend I guess".

Yonkstur

 

[STICKBOY]

#1 Steve Young and Gregg Swingle. Carbondale wins state championship.
#2 Same Pair back at same game with Carbondale
#3 1983 class b Champion ship Honesdale blue mtn Leroy Spoor Bob Shilling

 

[masterg]

Gregg Swingle? Bob Shilling?

Holy Cow! There's two names I haven't heard in 20 years or so. If you don't mind, why are they both such standouts for you?

Bob's gone. Whatever happened to Gregg?

 

[DStroyer]

Some of the ID's we used to play at WBHT were called "Swingles". Scott Shannon-voiced SWeeper mixed with "Hot 97" sonovox jINGLE = swingle! I would pay a decent amount of money for a dub of those Hot 97 swingles.

Okay, sorry..... Back to the topic.....

 

[travist102]

Well... not counting the games where I had just a cell phone to pass back and forth between me and my partner...

In 1996, when I did my first game, I forgot how far away the bathrooms were. I spent the last three quarters with that urge.

I've called a few 95+ yard touchdowns, a few state titles on the radio and internet... and heard a few good blunders.

I went to a game featuring two teams at 0-8, and Glen Snyder of WMLP inadvertently called one drive an 81-play 5-yard drive.

The best slip-ups I ever heard were when our own Joe Purcell at T-102 forgot who Blue Mountain was playing, and called them "the other team." Shawn Fitzpatrick lost it.

Shawn also lost it when he and Phil Schoener were calling a game, and instead of "passing situation:, Phil called it a "p*ssing situation". Shawn lost it for about 10 minutes.

My "I lost it" moment came in 2001, at the Pine Grove homecoming game... a horse-drawn chariot passed in front of our side of the stands, and decided to relieve itself in front of everyone.

 

[Rockin Rob]

BEST:

1) During the expo Phillies-Iron Pig(effer)s game, Scott Franzke is describing a routine out when Larry Andersen blasts a loud belch over the air. The pair went to break with Franzke losing it. They're a great team, especially if the game goes extra innings. The later the game gets, the crankier L.A. seems to get. If only I could recall some of them, the 13 inning marathon vs. Florida (?) produced some classic Andersen lines.

2) 1993 NLCS: Richie Ashburn/Lenny Dykstra at bat: "Ground ball, BASE HIT! Look at em run! One run scores, another crosses the plate (going by memory here), Dykstra into third with a triple, he sure beat the shift there". Richie was AWESOME as an analyst, but really could capture a moment when he was allowed to ride solo.

3) 1980 NL East clincher (?): Andy Musser w/ Mike Schmidt at the plate: "Swang and a long drive, he buried it! HE BURIED IT! Waaaaay back, (voice cracks) OUTTA HERE! Home run puts the Phillies up 6-4". Chris Wheeler slips in a quick yip at this point.

4) 1983 NBA Finals: Neil Funk: "13 seconds left, Cheeks... gives to Malone... YES! It over!!! 4 seconds, (effects a gravelly over-emphasized yell)3, 2, 1... THE SIXERS ARE THE WORLD CHAMPS! Oh ho ho, Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh".

5) 1973-4(?) Stanley Cup Finals: Gene Hart: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Flyers... are going to win.. THE STANLEY (voice cracks) CUP!"


WORST:

1) Anything that ends with either "It is high, it is far, it is GONE!"

2) Cutesy names: i.e.: The Giambino (ok, we get it! Giambi hit a homer), an A-Bomb from A-Rod (is it???), Bernie goes boom! (What? Did he have bad gas).

3) Anything that ends with "Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeee YANKEES WIN!"

4) "Goodness gracious! Of all the dramatic things I've ever seen....."

 

[DStroyer]

an A-Bomb from A-Rod (is it???)

"The last guy to get 'a' bomb from 'a' rod was Robert Reed's last boyfriend." -Jim Norton

 

[masterg]

#1 Steve Young and Gregg Swingle. Carbondale wins state championship.
#2 Same Pair back at same game with Carbondale
#3 1983 class b Champion ship Honesdale blue mtn Leroy Spoor Bob Shilling

OK, here's my guess. Since you made no attempt to answer my question about the gentlemen you named, I say the only conclusion is that you're one of them. In fact, I might be about the only one here who knows who any of these guys are, and I know you ain't Bob Schilling.

 

[Nairda]

and I know you ain't Bob Schilling.

----Unless there really is life after death and they have internet service too.

 

[Rockin Rob]

an A-Bomb from A-Rod (is it???)

"The last guy to get 'a' bomb from 'a' rod was Robert Reed's last boyfriend." -Jim Norton

Good point, good point....


.....Milluh?