# Greatest sportscasting phrases ("Down goes Frazier!") **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 20, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212 "2014-06-20T15:23:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/21 "2014-06-21T01:34:36Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/22 "2014-06-21T02:52:35Z")
“The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/23 "2014-06-21T05:51:59Z")
Munich Olympics- “They’re all gone.” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/24 "2014-06-21T09:15:08Z")
Bill King’s call of [the Holy Roller](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y1SeAjv5ao) - "Madden is on the field. He wants to know if it’s real. They said yes, get your big butt out of here! He does! There’s nothing real in the world any more!” ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/25 "2014-06-21T14:58:35Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > “The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey” ["Didn’t quite get his leg over …](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k0qZDdfvZk&feature=kp) ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/26 "2014-06-21T15:25:15Z")
“It’s Father’s Day today at Shea, so to all you fathers out there, Happy Birthday.” … - Mets announcer Ralph Kiner ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/27 "2014-06-21T15:42:38Z")
> [@seal\_cleaner](#): > > “It’s Father’s Day today at Shea, so to all you fathers out there, Happy Birthday.” … > > - Mets announcer Ralph Kiner The UK had (he has unfortunately died) a commentator called David Coleman that was so prone to these sort of things that a name was given for them: Colemanballs. Private Eye had (has? Been a while since I read it) a column where it covered Colemanballs of other sports commentators. > **[David Coleman's best 'Colemanballs' - and those of his inadvertent imitators](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/21/david-coleman-s-best-colemanballs)** > > A selection of the commentator's most famous verbal gaffes - and a selection of choice quotes from other sporting pundits ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/28 "2014-06-21T16:11:47Z")
Probably apocryphal, but the late great Herb Score once said while calling a Cleveland Indians’ game, “There’s a drive done the line, is it fair or foul? IT IS!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/29 "2014-06-21T16:52:10Z")
The first bit [here](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/8062605.stm), as Geoffrey Boycott runs out Derek Randall in the Ashes. “There must be a run out here. Oh, how tragic! How tragic, how tragic, how tragic.”. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/30 "2014-06-21T17:54:54Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Still too soon. It’ll always be too soon. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/31 "2014-06-21T18:33:03Z")
“Winfield goes back to the wall, he hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It’s rolling all the way back to second base. This is a terrible thing for the Padres.” - [Jerry Coleman](http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/01/jerry-coleman-best-quotes) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/32 "2014-06-21T19:03:06Z")
This. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/n73GFvAyIjs/hqdefault.jpg "John Lennon shot 12-8-80 Howard Cosell tells the world twice John Lennon was dead.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n73GFvAyIjs) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/33 "2014-06-21T19:14:38Z")
My previous post was Howard Cosell telling the world that John Lennon was killed. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/34 "2014-06-21T19:44:43Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > “And we’ll see you tomorrow night.” I’m hoping you mean Jack Buck’s [original call from 1991](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMMjb87bqyA) and not Joe’s ([“That is a disgusting act”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmqGg6Ccvw)) vapid copy of his dad from 2011. You wonder how long Joe had been waiting for a chance to pull Dad’s classic call out of the bag and use it himself. Loved Jack Buck. Such a great play-by-play guy, not just for the Cardinals but national TV baseball broadcasts and, of course, Monday Night Football on the radio with Hank Stram. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/35 "2014-06-21T19:55:17Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > “Winfield goes back to the wall, he hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It’s rolling all the way back to second base. This is a terrible thing for the Padres.” - [Jerry Coleman](http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/01/jerry-coleman-best-quotes) Coleman was a riot. “Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen.” “McCovey swings and misses, and it’s fouled back.” “There’s someone warming up in the bullpen, but he’s obscured by his number.” ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/36 "2014-06-22T11:21:15Z")
“Fly Ball to Deep Centerfield, …FOUL BALL!!” Mike Shannon (or Jack Buck), No citation other than I heard it listening to a Cardinal Game driving home from St Louis. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/37 "2014-06-22T12:11:30Z")
…an iconic bit of commentary down under was the normally unflappable Keith Quinn running out of words to describe the first try against England when (IMHO) NZ’s greatest rugby player Jonah Lomu ran right over Mike Catt. (At about the 22 second mark.) ‘Lomu … oh … oh’. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c\_id=4&objectid=10742236 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/38 "2014-06-22T12:46:37Z")
[Behind the bag!](http://youtu.be/18caPNisP2U%22) ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/39 "2014-06-22T13:28:17Z")
“[GOOD GAWD ALMIGHTY! GOOD GAWD ALMIGHTY! THAT KILLED HIM! AS GAWD IS MAH WITNESS, HE IS BROKEN IN HALF!](http://youtu.be/ypot3CYECwE)” Just one of good ol’ JR’s most iconic calls from a career full of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212/40 "2014-06-22T13:50:08Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > This could end up being the only one in the thread that has the distinction of being the title of a nationally broadcasted TV show; the UK’s “They Think It’s All Over” This one got a gold coin [http://blog.perthmint.com.au/2011/09/06/gold-gold-to-australia-gold-the-most-famous-call-in-australian-olympic-history-inspires-our-official-london-2012-commemorative-coin/](http://blog.perthmint.com.au/2011/09/06/gold-gold-to-australia-gold-the-most-famous-call-in-australian-olympic-history-inspires-our-official-london-2012-commemorative-coin/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sportscasting-phrases-down-goes-frazier/691212.md?page=3)