When I first posted the David Tyree catch and proclaimed how terrible Joe Buck’s call was, I asked you to imagine Gus Johnson (or anyone for that matter with emotion) calling that same play. Well thanks to LBMS I was able to take Marv Albert’s radio call of the play and add it in with the video.
Let’s watch that play again….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHTwYU4syJE&rel=1
I’m not even going to post the Joe Buck call again because it will just make me mad, but here’s Bill Simmons’ take on the call….
If you’re a play-by-play announcer and you can’t get excited for a play like that, then why are you doing this for a living? Only Pat Summerall could get away with deadpan calls for miracle plays, and I have to say, even Pat’s voice might have cracked on that one. Over everything else, a play-by-play guy should be able to match the excitement of a particular game, right? How could Buck feel good about himself after that call? Imagine him doing the last seconds of the USA-USSR hockey game in 1980? “And the clock winds down … and the Americans have done it.”
Yep, that about sums it up.
Did Marv out-perform Buck on ‘The Snatch’? YESSSS! (Lord, Beer Me Strength)
Greatest. Super Bowl Catch. Ever. (Awful Announcing)
