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Sports announcers covering diffrent sports?

Ultimajock said:
...Frank Gifford met Kathie Lee Johnson when both subbed on "Good Morning America." CBS had Vin Scully do NFL Football in the '70s, and assigned both Pat Summerall and Scully to golf and tennis coverage during the same stretch. I recall Summerall getting into an on-air argument with an Australian tennis pro doing colour commentary when he repeatedly referred to American football as "your sport"...
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I don't remember Gifford filling in for David Hartman on "GMA"; I've always assumed that Steve Bell would go over and fill in instead. I do remember Al Michaels filling in once for Charles Gibson in the late 80s, and he seemed to be pretty good at it.
 
onairb2014 said:
NBC began doing occasional 'GOTW' doubleheaders in 1977, and Jones was used every once in a while on those weeks. More often, they used Monte Moore, later Dick Enberg, and eventually, Jay Randolph. Jones did a number of games in 1982, when NBC was still looking for a permanent # 2 play by play guy, and was experimenting with announcers like Bob Costas, Sal Bando, and even Tim McCarver, who teamed with Jones on some 'C' games.
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I've seen the Royals-Yankees game from 1979, and several times, NBC switches to the Dodgers-Cubs game, with Jones doing pbp. My guess is that game was seen only in New York and Kansas City, but it could have aired in other places too.
 
CTListener said:
Cosell divorced himself from boxing after the Holmes-Cobb butchery in 1982. At that time, ESPN had Randy Gordon, a very knowledgeable boxing man, doing its Top Rank series along with Sal Marchiano. Why couldn't either have moved over to ABC instead of plugging ABC's play-by-play "stars" or a retired NFL player into the network slot? Schenkel was too nice a guy to be doing boxing, and Jackson had no feel for the sport at all. I don't remember Trautwig's boxing work at all. Lampley was very good and did a lot of boxing for HBO later on. Maybe they should have just made him the ABC boxing voice after Cosell quit.
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I think that Tim Ryan was better at boxing on CBS than Dan Dierdorf on ABC; Ryan had tons of boxing experience going way back to the early 1970s. He was likely the best boxing blow by blow commentator after Cosell, although Marv Albert on NBC was quite good too. Bob Trumpy did a fight or two for NBC too.
 
danderson6500 said:
The two clips i remember of him are Bob Beniot's 300 game in 1988 at the Quaker State Open.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRxNE1Wcaxs

The other one was Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtmSDCfCpHY
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Schenckel was part of many Indy 500 telecasts, sometimes a s the main race-caller, usually as a reporter. He often rode alongside the pace-car driver, and was famously part of a pre-race crash one year(he received medical attention, but since he had minor, if any injuries, he was able to return to the air that day).
 
Schenkel did pretty much only bowling for ABC between 1989 and 1997. I don't remember him doing anything else for ABC, unless you count two Pac-10 games in 88 with Dick Vermell.
 
Recently retired Cincinnati Reds broadcaster Marty Brennaman covered basketball during the Reds off-season, and was often heard on March Madness games.
 
onairb2014 said:
Drysdale did pre and postgame interviews for the final game of the ALCS at Fenway Park, in his last assignment for ABC. He did p-x-p for the network's Sunday afternoon games, which aired until July, when 'Monday Night Baseball' began. (Michaels did the main Sunday game, usually with Jim Palmer, while Drysdale and Johnny Bench did the backup contests). Keith Jackson(usually working with McCarver) did the # 2 Monday night games. Bench took a week off in June(with Steve Busby filling in), and also worked one game with Michaels as the networks switched the announcer pairings. Drysdale worked the All-Star game as an interviewer, and did not resurface til the playoffs. Bench simply disappeared, ultimately going to CBS radio.

Although Michaels, Palmer and McCarver had done the '85 World Series together, ABC did not team them on a regular basis on 'MNB' until 1988(after three 'experiments' in 1987).
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My dad and i once watched a Sunday afternoon game from Detroit on satellite in 1986 and it was Drysdale doing pxp. At first, my dad thought it was the White Sox feed, but the giveaway was when Corey McPherrin did the updates on the other ABC game that i knew it was an ABC telecast.
 
While not a sport in the traditional sense, Joe Garagiola was the local tv wrestling host in St Louis while also being part of the Cardinals announcing crew. Jack Buck and Harry Caray also did wrestling play by play on the radio in St. Louis.


Bill Mercer was the long time Dallas wrestling host and also did Cowboys and Rangers games.


I believe Chicago sportscasting legend Jack Brickhouse also did wrestling.
 
briancraig said:
While not a sport in the traditional sense, Joe Garagiola was the local tv wrestling host in St Louis while also being part of the Cardinals announcing crew. Jack Buck and Harry Caray also did wrestling play by play on the radio in St. Louis.


Bill Mercer was the long time Dallas wrestling host and also did Cowboys and Rangers games.


I believe Chicago sportscasting legend Jack Brickhouse also did wrestling.
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I thought it was Joe Garagiola's brother Mickey who was involved with TV wrestling in St. Louis.
 
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