Jim McKay Dead
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:39 pm
I'll always remember him as the voice of ABC's Wide World of Sports...
"the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat."
RIP
Yeah, kind of like the deal where Python's gone and you're still here.Adelpiero wrote:shame, we lose mckay from abc sports, but continue to hear berman. are we in hell, and don't know it?
ankle biting cunt says, what?Goober McTuber wrote:Yeah, kind of like the deal where Python's gone and you're still here.Adelpiero wrote:shame, we lose mckay from abc sports, but continue to hear berman. are we in hell, and don't know it?
Ankle-biting? You're recognized as a babbling fucktard in every forum you choose to despoil with your "posts", bitch.KCAdelpiero wrote:ankle biting cunt says, what?Goober McTuber wrote:Yeah, kind of like the deal where Python's gone and you're still here.Adelpiero wrote:shame, we lose mckay from abc sports, but continue to hear berman. are we in hell, and don't know it?
Imagine that; understated, modest, humble, eloquent. Somebody send a memo to ESPN.Goober McTuber wrote:Will always remember him for both the Wild World of Sports and for hosting the Olympics, especially 1972 in Munich. Dude could work for hours without a script.
You talking about about me or Jim?Bobby42 wrote:Imagine that; understated, modest, humble, eloquent. Somebody send a memo to ESPN.Goober McTuber wrote:Will always remember him for both the Wild World of Sports and for hosting the Olympics, especially 1972 in Munich. Dude could work for hours without a script.
I'll second that. McKay was a regular Saturday afternoon fixture in my house for years. I trace my current dislike to the Olympic Games to the moment McKay and ABC stopped doing the broadcasts. RIPQ, West Coast Style wrote:Usually when a public figuer passes I, like many in here, are quick to smell the blood in the water and come in and get off my poor taste posts for cheap amusment. Some individauls, however, are off limits from such treatment. Jim McKay was one of those. RIP.
Very Nice, and a fitting tribute.Q, West Coast Style wrote:Usually when a public figuer passes I, like many in here, are quick to smell the blood in the water and come in and get off my poor taste posts for cheap amusment. Some individauls, however, are off limits from such treatment. Jim McKay was one of those. RIP.
Not knocking the man, his life, or his work, but the hyperbole now being attached to his death is already starting to wear thin. Jim Lampley saying that the line, "They're all gone" was the greatest moment in sportscasting history is pure bullshit and an incredibly weak attempt to overglorify the moment. Not saying it wasn't memorable, but it really wasn't that great.R-Jack wrote:I just can't think of anything bad to say about the man or his work.
McKay or Lampley?bbqjones wrote:the guy looked like a child molester.
Evidence that looks can be deceiving. Lamps is more into crustaceans than meaty mammals.bbqjones wrote:lamley looks like a douchebag pig fucker*
Lampley is full of shit. It was hardly a "sportscasting event" but a sportscaster handling a major news event. McKay did an admirable job (he even received a nice letter from Walter Cronkite) but this was a regular guy (McKay) dealing with an extremely difficult situation. Folks at home could relate to that and that's what made it significant.Smackie Chan wrote:R-Jack wrote:Jim Lampley saying that the line, "They're all gone" was the greatest moment in sportscasting history is pure bullshit and an incredibly weak attempt to overglorify the moment. Not saying it wasn't memorable, but it really wasn't that great.
I was always partial to Vin Scully, but I see you workin'. Vin is the King.RumpleForeskin wrote:Skully is still the greatest though.
I've said it before, but Al Michaels is highly overrated. Sure, he has a decent set of pipes, and is usually well-informed. But he's not terribly insightful, and his biggest weakness is that he thinks he has a sense of humor that really isn't there. His listeners would be far better served were he to accept the role of straight man to whomever is in the booth with him. Instead, he tries to one-up Madden, and falls flat on his face. Not that Madden is Dane Cook, but Michaels should assume the role of Bud Abbott to Madden's Lou Costello.I miss Al, Frank, and Dan.
I'm sure I'm not alone in my opinion that the glory years of MNF were when Frank, Don, and Howard manned the booth. You could love or hate Cosell (and most people prolly didn't love him), but they made for a most entertaining broadcast crew.Bobby42 wrote:No love for Cosell?
who could forget the monday night football theme blasting and howard doing the highlights of the Sunday games during halftime.Smackie Chan wrote:I'm sure I'm not alone in my opinion that the glory years of MNF were when Frank, Don, and Howard manned the booth. You could love or hate Cosell (and most people prolly didn't love him), but they made for a most entertaining broadcast crew.Bobby42 wrote:No love for Cosell?
Or Howard's infamous description of Alvin Garrett: ""Look at that little monkey run!"Adelpiero wrote:who could forget the monday night football theme blasting and howard doing the highlights of the Sunday games during halftime.