Aseahawkfan wrote:Any?
Obviously Dave Niehaus on radio was amazing for the Mariners. He made all those terrible years bearable.
See, now there's a perfect example. Lots of people loved Niehaus because he was exciting to listen to. But the man could not judge a fly ball. A Mariner would hit a fly ball that Niehaus would make it sound like it was a 500' shot then at the end his voice would tail off and he's say
"and the right fielder catches it a few feet in front of the warning track to end the inning". Used to piss me off.
Aseahawkfan wrote:Kevin Calabro is pretty great for basketball.
I like Aikman, even though he is pretty biased towards the Cowboys.
I don't know announcers very well.
I did like Jon Gruden's QB show. I can't remember him particularly well as an announcer. I tend to listen to local radio versus the national broadcast if I can. Thus Steve Raible is who I hear the most and he's good. Always pumping the Seahawks.
Agreed on Calabro and Aikman. I couldn't stand Jon Gruden, mostly because of his voice. Too much of a sound of arrogance to it, I suppose. Raible was OK, but he doesn't hold a candle to Pete Gross, who was my all time favorite football radio broadcaster. His high pitched "
Touchdown, Seahawks!" made the game come alive for me.
When I first started watching Seahawk games, I'd turn the volume on the TV set down and turn on the radio and listen to Pete Gross's call. It was far superior to the network crews as the local guys knew the team a lot better as they did every Seahawk game. Thee national broadcasters were assigned to various games at random, so a lot of times they couldn't even pronounce the names correctly. Additionally, since there is no visual for the audience to watch, radio announcers have to be a lot more descriptive of things like backs and receivers in motion. I always recommended that people new to the game watch it using this method as there was more basic information and detailed descriptions on the radio.
However, that method is no longer a viable way to watch a game. Back in the 80's, the radio was always a couple tenths of a second ahead of the TV but it was still watchable. Now they have TV signals passing through various filters and processors that results in a very large gap between that and the virtually live radio signal. What we see on TV can be up to 5 seconds behind.
