Brent Musburger Hanging ‘Em Up, Set To Call Final Game Next Week

[mvcg66b3r]

“You are looking live …” — that’s how Brent Musburger began so many of the sports broadcasts he announced during his 40-plus years in the booth. ESPN said today that he is retiring and that the Georgia-Kentucky college basketball game on January 31 will be his last.

“What a wonderful journey I have traveled with CBS and the Disney company,” said Musburger, who spent the past 27 years with ABC/ESPN. “A love of sports allows me to live a life of endless pleasure. And make no mistake, I will miss the arenas and stadiums dearly. Most of all, I will miss the folks I have met along the trail.”

He became most famous for doing play-by-play for the NBA on CBS during the go-go 1980s, when the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics dominated the league led by Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, respectively. His broadcasts alongside color man Tommy Heinsohn, a former Celtic, drew enormous ratings — especially when those rival teams faced off, and especially during the NBA Finals.

Among Musburger’s many career highlights was calling the 1985 Men’s NCAA Basketball Championship, when Villanova stunned heavily favored Georgetown — led by future Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing — to win its first title. He also did play-by-play for Super Bowls, NCAA football title games, the Masters, MLB playoffs, Triple Crown horse races and U.S. Open tennis, along with the many memorable NBA games.

https://deadline.com/2017/01/brent-musburger-retires-last-game-january-31-1201893854/

 

[KeithE4]

He and his family are starting a sports handicapping service in Vegas. I'm not 100% sure that, due a conflict of interest, ESPN made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

 

[TheBigA]

At age 77, he's a year older than Verne Lundquist, who just retired last month. I said in another thread that I noticed his energy level is not what it used to be. There were several games when I could barely hear him above the crowd noise. He and "Herbie" had a great relationship on the air, but ESPN will do better by pairing him with someone more energetic. Certainly a huge changing of the guard going on at ESPN over the past few years. How much longer will Lee Corso be there to wear the headgear?

 

[Will_H_69_9]

yeah, i think it was time for him to retire as recently he made a controversial statement about the Oklahoma Sooners player who committed horrible violence on a woman during the Oklahoma-Alabama game and not to mention the incident where he saw a QB's girlfriend for one of the QB playing in a game he called in which made him look like a creepy perverted old man.

 

[Megatron]

Glad that Brent is retiring I did not like him was glad he was on SEC Network for past few years so I didn't I have to hear his voice as much.

 

[umfan]

He's had a very impressive career. I wish him the best in retirement.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Has anyone else heard Brent Musberger's new radio venture? He provides the intro to a short, 2-minute "Brent Musberger's Action Update" featuring selected betting lines "from my guys in the Desert" for top upcoming games for all sports. Since earlier this summer, my local ESPN Radio affiliate (WFMB-1450 Springfield, IL) has aired this update around 8:20AM and 4:40AM during local morning/drive time shows there.

 

[CTListener]

Musburger's sports betting station is called VSIN (Vegas Sports Information Network) and is carried 24/7 on SiriusXM. I'm, I guess, one of the few sports fans who neither gambles on individual games nor plays fantasy sports, so I've never listened to the channel and can't tell you how it sounds.

 

[Megatron]

FS1 wanted Brent to do Lock It In that makes it's debut Sep 10 with Clay Travis, Todd the oddsmaker seen him when Fox Sports Live was on the air and on T2S on CBS Sports Network picking NFL games with Adam. But FS1 couldn't make him an offer that he liked.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Musburger just took a job in July as Oakland Raiders radio play-by-play guy.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...eg-papa-oakland-raiders-radio-play-play-voice