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Patriots Play by Play

And it's over for Gil with the Pats' loss to Balt.

tweet from Tom Looney of FSR's JT The Brick & other shows:
>>@LooneyOnFox
Last game for Gil Santos ... Long time Radio voice of the Patriots ...(and Penn State Football ) ... Gil Santos ... A class act .
 
some other tweets
Russ Goldman ‏@Russ_Goldman
I want to congratulate Gil Santos on his wonderful career as radio announcer for the New England Patriots.

Adam 12 ‏@adamxii
Feel bad the legend Gil Santos has to go out like this. Props to @ScottZolak for helping Gil bring it home w/class.

Jon Wallach ‏@KenGriffeyRules
One quick thing here: It's the end of an era tonight. A big round of applause for the legend, Gil Santos. Enjoy your retirement!

Sean Grande ‏@SeanGrandePBP
Courtside in Detroit, a live game broadcast is the perfect place to say thanks to Gil Santos, a pro's pro leaves a permanent mark in Boston.

Kevin Paul Dupont ‏@GlobeKPD
Stick salute to Gil Santos. Godspeed.
 
It's talent like Gil Santos that made me choose radio over television for sports since I was a child. The art of "painting a mental picture for the listener" is becoming a lost art and Gil did a magnificent job during his tenure. Thank you, Gil Santos. I truly hope your on-air presentation was not lost upon the next generation of play-by-play talent.
 
Who is Fast Freddie? I thought I knew all of the Boston area sportscasters.
 
blackgold said:
Let's get Martin Tyler of Sky Sports to become the new Pats play-by-play man. He could be heard all over the 98.5 Network and be relayed back to TalkSport in England and Today FM in Ireland.
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That's wonderful! The NFL is getting a big fan base in the UK and Ireland, so he should be right at home. And maybe he can call the Revs games during the MLS season!
 
Cap-n Spackle commented: said:
I could swear I remember John Carlson and Tim Horgan doing football on Ch. 56 in the early-mid 70s. Did they do Pats preseason games, or am I just misremembering things from when they did Whalers games?
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The New England Whalers were a pro hockey team that played their home games in 1972-73 and 1973-74 in Boston, and the team of Carlson and Horgan did games during together on the then-WKBG-56 in the 1972-73 season (during which he Whalers won the first World Hockey Association championship).

Carlson continued calling games in the 1973-74 season, but sportswriter Stan Fischler had replaced Horgan as analyst (Horgan appeared as between-periods studio host).

The team left Boston at the end of the 1973-74 regular-season; I think Carlson may have done some games of the Whalers on WFSB-3 in the 1974-75 season, their first in Hartford.

I don't think Horgan broadcast football on a regular basis, with or without Carlson.
 
I would not be surprised if Dave Goucher does double-duty next season, adding the Patriots' play-by-play to that of the Bruins.

Yes, Goucher would have to miss some pre-season and early-season Bruins' games, but maybe not too many.

If the Bruins had a home game on a Saturday and the Patriots had a home game on a Sunday the same weekend, Goucher could call both games.

Besides, WBZ-98.5 sports talk host Ryan Johnston has experience calling hockey play-by-play on radio (the old Lowell Lock Monsters), and he could probably fill-in for Goucher for those ten to twelve Bruins' games (counting pre-season and early-season) that Goucher would have to miss each year.

"The Sports Hub" would have to increase Goucher's pay, but not as much as had the station were to hire a separate announcer for Patriots' games.
 
Does this Fast Freddy have a surname? A play-by-play background? If not, is he putting his listeners up to this, a la Howard Stern's prank phone callers?
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
I would not be surprised if Dave Goucher does double-duty next season, adding the Patriots' play-by-play to that of the Bruins.

Yes, Goucher would have to miss some pre-season and early-season Bruins' games, but maybe not too many.

If the Bruins had a home game on a Saturday and the Patriots had a home game on a Sunday the same weekend, Goucher could call both games.

Besides, WBZ-98.5 sports talk host Ryan Johnston has experience calling hockey play-by-play on radio (the old Lowell Lock Monsters), and he could probably fill-in for Goucher for those ten to twelve Bruins' games (counting pre-season and early-season) that Goucher would have to miss each year.

"The Sports Hub" would have to increase Goucher's pay, but not as much as had the station were to hire a separate announcer for Patriots' games.
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If goucher does double duty I will kiss you on the mouth. It's John Rooke's job already. He's Kraft's guy.
 
CTListener said:
Does this Fast Freddy have a surname? A play-by-play background? If not, is he putting his listeners up to this, a la Howard Stern's prank phone callers?
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For the love of God, he's a camp-sounding supporting player on a Hot AC afternoon show! It's a frickin' joke! Do any of you people actually listen to Boston radio?
 
Fenway1912 said:
Wiki lists Gallagher as play by play in 1965 but he had left WEEI for Channel 7/WNAC radio by then.

1965 was Cusick and Ned Martin. Cusick had lost the Bruins job when he went fulltime at WEEI and WHDH used Jim Laing and then Bill Harrington.

Fred would finally get the Bruins job back in 1969 when WBZ got the contract.


Fenway1912 said:
Bob Starr and WBZ started in 1966 (Gil was color 66-70)

Gallagher left WEEI for Miami after the 64 season and Fred Cusick did the Pats in 1965 on WEEI.
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I know Ned and Cusick have some Pats history, but it seems odd that they would have been doing Pats together in 65, since both were doing the Sox, Cusick as the park announcer and Ned on the PBP team. Gallagher, I believe, was also the sports director on what passed for a newscast at RKO General's WNAC-TV.

Also, when Jim Laing (cq) was sacked for spending a year saying bad things about a bad team, I believe he was replaced by Bob Wilson, who, when the B's went with "all the good sports" to WBZ, then left to call St. Louis Blues and Cusick took over radio at BZ when Don Earle got the TV job, then Earle was broomed, Fred went to TV and Wilson came back from Stl Lou. I do believe that Bill "Nozo" Harrington, the husband of Miss "Romper Room" Jean, did some B's PBP but I thought it was before Laing.. Cusick I think worked with Pierson on radio, then Pierson replaced Pat Egan (whose real job was a janitor at Northeastern) and Cooney Weiland on TV for a year with Earle while Fred worked with Cal Gardener, then rejoined Pierson on TV.

But my memory isn't what it once was. I do remember that Laing was very good
 
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