# Keith Jackson RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 13, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-jackson-rip/806549 "2018-01-13T16:55:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-jackson-rip/806549/1 "2018-01-13T16:55:58Z")
College Football Announcing Icon Keith Jackson has passed away at age 89 > **[Legendary broadcaster Keith Jackson, 89, dies](https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/22076254/legendary-broadcaster-keith-jackson-dies-age-89)** > > Legendary broadcaster Keith Jackson, who spent some 50 years calling the action in a folksy, down-to-earth manner, has died at the age of 89. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-jackson-rip/806549/2 "2018-01-13T17:00:50Z")
Very sad. His voice was the essence of Big 10 Football for years every Fall Saturday.☹ ---
**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:** [January 13, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-jackson-rip/806549/3 "2018-01-13T18:25:07Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Very sad. His voice was the essence of Big 10 Football for years every Fall Saturday.☹ Did a lot of Pac games, as well. One of the Greats. My favorite line, from a Monster USC punt, _“He… Just… Killed It!”_ ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-jackson-rip/806549/4 "2018-01-13T19:21:21Z")
He called many professional games, too. He was on the original Monday Night Football broadcasting team, along with Howard Cosell and Don Meredith. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-jackson-rip/806549/5 "2018-01-13T23:45:22Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Did a lot of Pac games, as well. One of the Greats. > > My favorite line, from a Monster USC punt, _“He… Just… Killed It!”_ That’s what I mostly associate him with. (He was also an alum of WSU.) Also, as with the animated choo-choo train at the beginning of “Soul Train”, seeing him on screen meant Saturday morning cartoons were over for another week. (Depending on the time zone, sometimes this was as early as 10 am.) In any case, he was a classic broadcaster. I think for the rest of my life, whenever I turn on a college football game, a part of me will expect to hear Jackson’s voice. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-jackson-rip/806549/6 "2018-01-14T01:54:46Z")
Keith Jackson WAS college football for many of us for a long, long time. Like Vin Scully with baseball, and Chick Hern with basketball, Jackson had a unique way of making the game more than just something being played out on your television screen. It’s never been quite the same without him. Sad, sad day. ☹ And, yes, for those of us in the Pacific time zone, cartoons ended with college football. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-jackson-rip/806549/7 "2018-01-16T00:14:29Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > He called many professional games, too. He was on the original Monday Night Football broadcasting team, along with Howard Cosell and Don Meredith. I’m one of the old timers who remembers that!