Greatest sportscasting phrases ("Down goes Frazier!")

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“The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey”

Munich Olympics- “They’re all gone.”

:frowning:

Bill King’s call of the Holy Roller - "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!”

"Didn’t quite get his leg over …

“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.

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!” :smiley:

The first bit here, 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.”.

It’ll always be too soon. :frowning:

“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

This.

My previous post was Howard Cosell telling the world that John Lennon was killed.

I’m hoping you mean Jack Buck’s original call from 1991 and not Joe’s (“That is a disgusting act”) 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.

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.”

“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.

…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

Behind the bag!

GOOD GAWD ALMIGHTY! GOOD GAWD ALMIGHTY! THAT KILLED HIM! AS GAWD IS MAH WITNESS, HE IS BROKEN IN HALF!

Just one of good ol’ JR’s most iconic calls from a career full of 'em.

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/