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Jack Schell

Somehow the subject has a kind of odd ring to it...but, you know what we mean. Anyway, howdy Steve, Mike and all. I am about to dash out to see BEOWULF...hear it's pretty catchy. Just want to say I noted the posts on KRLD, Cowboy broadcasts and who remembers who.

BTW, let's all stop saying "I remember you" to someone still living and striving to MAKE a living ! It smacks of antiquity...so, try to go with, "Hey, I know you...blah blah blah." What do you think, Steve?

OK, on Bill...try the GOOGLING thing on Bill Mercer sometime when you have a whole day. He was a major part of a string of fantastic sports broadcasters...not the least of which would be Jay Randolph. I am about 45 pages into his new book, "Play-By-Play" In it you get the complete timeline. I am NOT selling the book, just happen to find it both good for learninmg about Bill...and, a darn good reference. Anybody else got it yet?

Back soon. What fun to check in with you guys!!
 
Jack,

Glad to see you on the Board (so to speak). Hey...I really enjoyed listening to you at the Texas Radio Hall of Fame get-together several weeks back. As far as I was concerned...you could of had all the time you wanted!

Gotten any traffic tickets out in the middle of nowhere lately???


Andy
 
No, Andy, I have avoided entering the middle of nowhere lately...I now take the road less...well, you know.

Quick alert: If...I say, IF you intend to see the movie, BEOWULF, for cryin' out loud, see it in 3D!! Our local theatre had the 2D version. Clearly, it is best seen in 3D...they do that same kind of graphical who-ha that they used on Tom Hanks' POLAR EXPRESS. Swords, rocks, spears, fire-balls, flying chairs...all that probably would make a 3D audience flinch bigtime.

BTW, in 44+ years of treading water in the sea of radio, I don't recall hearing a better catch phrase than the one that somebody bounced off the walls at KBOX: "For the world's best radio audience, the best audio radiance...K B O X." The actual wording may have been a variation of this, but the brilliance was there. Call me a throwback...but I still like that kind of thinking.

Adios...and don't forget to GOOGLE Bill Mercer Radio to find out where all the pieces fit in the DFW sportscaster timeline.
 
...and for the record, it was Peggy who rang the bell on you Jack, not me. I would never do that to one of my radio idols! I already miss you :)

Josh
 
I have been trying to get Bill Mercer to come on the air with me-- to talk about the 40th anniversary of the ICE BOWL-- and see if I can get some tidbits from his tapes of that game when Blackie Sherrod was sitting along side of him in the igloo also known as the Press Box of Lambeu Field!

Just a thought

Dave Michaels
Davradio Productions
North Texas Sports Network
Plano, Texas
 
Would this be the same bill mercer of "World Class Championship Wrestling" fame as well?
 
I hope I'm not showing my ignorance and confusing with the great Dan Coates but my memory says that Bill was interviewing a wrestler who was bragging about how intelligent he was and Bill said "Oh, where did you matriculate" and the response was something like "aww, I didn't do any of that stuff"
 
Josh, you SHOULD have been throwing your chair! Thanks, just the same.
It's halftime in THE game. And, I can guarantee you that Bill is watching...like ALL of us.
As you can tell from the post above, Bill was there to call the "Ice Bowl"...it's described in his new book.
What I did NOT know about the field in GB was that some kind of underground heater was broken...am I the last to learn that!?!
Dave, I pretty sure you'll get Bill on...just nudge him once more.
OMG, Favre says his fingers are NUMB! Second half comin' up...GO COWBOYS!!
 
Jack! The story goes like this-- the Saturday before the Ice Bowl... the temps were in the 30's... and Lomardi took the media on a tour of the field and then to an area in the tunnel where there was a box... GE had placed an ELECTRIC BLANKET of coils under the field, and Lombardi was proud to have this on his field to make it even for both teams to play-- SOMETHING happened during the night when the morning temps as we all know reached MINUS 13 below 0... the coils froze and the feild was rock hard-- and we all know the outcome of that game.. here is another little tidbit of history from that game.

The famed photo of Bart Star crossing the goal line over the block of Jerry Kramer.. that photo was taken by (at the time) a 15 year old... the son of the Packers Team Photographer-- told his son to station himself there-- and left him with a camera and a wide angle lense-- while dear ol dad took off for the sidelines to take reaction shots of Lomardi and the team... funny how things work out.. WHO do YOU think got the BETTER PHOTO and WHO was nominated for a Pulitzer that year?

Just a thought

Dave Michaels
Davradio Productions
North Texas Sports Network
Plano, Texas
 
Slambang said:
Would this be the same bill mercer of "World Class Championship Wrestling" fame as well?
Click to expand...

While the Ice Bowl conversation is clouding over head... yes. Mercer was much of a Dallas broadcasting icon before Fritz called him up. WCCW just made him more relevant to the younger pups. Guy was amazing on a mic.
 
The refreshing thing about Bill Mercer,NO EGO! He is giving broadcasting aguft by teaching kids at UNT ,THE RIGHT WAY TO BROADCAST, not the salesmanshipmode of mode of mindless crud. Bill was on this past summer doing play by play and color for Frisco Roughrider games along side Scott Garner ,another Pro. What an amazing man,a gentlemanin every sense of the word and a true broadcaster. He is in his 80's ,but hisdeliverysounds like he is in his 30's. Bill isalso aveteran of World War two and partook in manymajor conflicts that turned the tide of the war to the allies. I hope one day someone will put together a tribute dinner for Bill Mercer, the man ica supreme classact, and the rest of us are amateurs.
 
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