# Examples of famous sports commentary **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 29, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782 "2011-07-29T23:04:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/21 "2011-07-30T14:44:02Z")
Game 7, 1994 Stanley Cup Eastern Conference Finals between the Devils and the Rangers. Stephane Matteau scores on a wraparound of sorts in double overtime, ending the series, and [Howie Rose’s exuberant call of “Matteau! Matteau! Matteau!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ziarOEosIc&NR=1&feature=fvwp) still haunts my, and most Devils fan’s, dreams. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/22 "2011-07-30T14:53:17Z")
I can’t find it anywhere, but I have a recollection of hearing the radio call of Babe Ruth (allegedly) calling his home run. Am I misremembering or confusing it with a movie or something? If it exists, I think that would fit the OP. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/23 "2011-07-30T14:57:36Z")
As a Twins fan, I’ll mention game 6 of the 1991 World Series, [“and we’ll see you tomorrow night”](http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=3251263) (it is at about the 1:40 mark). ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/24 "2011-07-30T15:10:09Z")
“Now there’s a steal by Bird… underneath to DJ… he lays it in!” “Go crazy, folks! Go crazy!” "Alright here we go with the kick-off. Harmon will probably try to squib it and he does. Ball comes loose and the Bears have to get out of bounds. Rogers along the sideline, another one…they’re still in deep trouble at midfield, they tried to do a couple of…the ball is still loose as they get it to Rogers. They get it back to the 30, they’re down to the 20…Oh the band is out on the field!! He’s gonna go into the endzone!!! He got into the endzone!! [voice quite hoarse at this point] Will it count? The Bears have scored [CANNON GOES OFF] but the bands are out on the field. " ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/25 "2011-07-30T15:21:12Z")
[“It gets through Buckner.”](http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=2968146) In print: “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden.” – Grantland Rice, describing Notre Dame’s backfied in 1924. ---
**Author:** ![alsoknownas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@alsoknownas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alsoknownas)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/26 "2011-07-30T15:39:24Z")
These are great! I’m enjoying reading about them, and watching them. Even the Dutch ones! > [@blindboyard](#): > > "We are the best in the world! We are the best in the world! We have beaten England 2-1 in football!! It is completely unbelievable! We have beaten England! England, birthplace of giants. Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana–we have beaten them all. We have beaten them all. > > ``` > "Maggie Thatcher can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher..." > > ``` 😃 How could I have forgotten to mention this. Every Brit fan knows this. We’ve even got a strange soft-spot for it. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/27 "2011-07-30T16:17:37Z")
My personal favorite: “Bless his heart, he’s got to be the sickest man in America!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/28 "2011-07-30T16:35:21Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > [“The band is on the field”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Play) I love that one. One of my favorites. > [@mcgato](#): > > As a Twins fan, I’ll mention game 6 of the 1991 World Series, [“and we’ll see you tomorrow night”](http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=3251263) (it is at about the 1:40 mark). Damn, you beat me to it! [“Beckham…into Sherringham…and Solskjaer has won it!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcSt08-Qy50) (go to 0:42). And at the beginning of that clip, before the 1st goal, I like, “Can Manchester United score? They _always_ score.” ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/29 "2011-07-30T16:51:47Z")
[Yes Sir!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqisX1ESLT8) Verne Lundquist/Jack Nicklaus at ANGC on the 71st hole. Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Harry Caray. ---
**Author:** ![BDoors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BDoors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BDoors)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/30 "2011-07-30T17:42:22Z")
> [@alsoknownas](#): > > > [@blindboyard](#): > > > > “Maggie Thatcher can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher, I have a message for you in the middle of the election campaign. I have a message for you: We have knocked England out of the football World Cup. Maggie Thatcher, as they say in your language in the boxing bars around Madison Square Garden in New York: Your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!” > > 😃 How could I have forgotten to mention this. Every Brit fan knows this. We’ve even got a strange soft-spot for it. Definitely. Maybe it’s appropriate at this time to remember Norway’s greatest contribution to sports commentary. The occasion was Norway beating England in a qualifier for the 1982 World Cup, and the commentator was Bjørge Lillelien. His hilarious, impassioned, and yet somehow sobering rant has been celebrated ever since. He led up to the quoted section above with a somewhat eclectic list of prominent figures in British history: “Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana. […] Maggie Thatcher [etc.]” I believe that is was at precisely this point that the British Empire finally crumbled. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/31 "2011-07-30T18:13:09Z")
[¡GOL!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkIGO2UA-u8) Goal! ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/32 "2011-07-30T18:19:40Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > My personal favorite: > > “Bless his heart, he’s got to be the sickest man in America!” > > 😃 I had to google this one because it’s not that famous outside of Airman Doors’ home. fyi, it refers to Jackie Smith’s drop of a touchdown pass for Dallas while playing Pittsburgh in the January 1979 Super Bowl. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/33 "2011-07-30T18:34:25Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > I had to google this one because it’s not that famous outside of Airman Doors’ home. fyi, it refers to Jackie Smith’s drop of a touchdown pass for Dallas while playing Pittsburgh in the January 1979 Super Bowl. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/34 "2011-07-30T19:06:53Z")
[What a disappointing end for South Africa](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxVNtuDKsds&feature=related). Starts about 30 second in. ---
**Author:** ![eddiec3434](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@eddiec3434](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eddiec3434)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/35 "2011-07-30T19:13:34Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!” Not too original, but well-known by baseball fans. Yeah, this one is the most popular one ever. Baseball rules!!! ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/36 "2011-07-30T19:55:46Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > I had to google this one because it’s not that famous outside of Airman Doors’ home. fyi, it refers to Jackie Smith’s drop of a touchdown pass for Dallas while playing Pittsburgh in the January 1979 Super Bowl. It’s pretty famous. It was said by Verne Lundquist on the radio broadcast which was heard by millions, it’s [one of the most famous plays in Super Bowl history](http://espn.go.com/page2/s/superbowlmoments25.html), and like Russ Hodges’ “Giants win the pennant” call it has come to be the definitive call of the play over the one on TV. I didn’t think it required any elaboration. Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/37 "2011-07-30T22:14:57Z")
Not as iconic as “the band is on the field”, but another college football classic is, [“He did it! He did it! Flutie did it!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvEE0Hg0Zro). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/38 "2011-07-30T22:42:11Z")
Howard Cosell: [Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8g7834rwxM) Alex Karras: [That’s Otis Sistrunk, from the University of Mars.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP0EPcuIrEg) ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/39 "2011-07-30T23:00:14Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > [“Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8g7834rwxM) Very first one I thought of. ETA: ElvisL1ves, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-famous-sports-commentary/590782/40 "2011-07-30T23:07:00Z")
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