and please don't turn this into a Jack should retire thread. Enjoy it for what it is. A guy who has watched some really ****** football calling an enjoyable win.
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State 10 Florida 7
Jack Cristil's ending call...
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and please don't turn this into a Jack should retire thread. Enjoy it for what it is. A guy who has watched some really ****** football calling an enjoyable win.
State 10 Florida 7
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but he did sound a little low key compared to previous big wins. Not a knock, just an observation.
So sometimes he calls our current players names from players in the 60s, and sometimes he forgets there are 12 members in the SEC now. The guy is a legend and when he calls games he paints a picture with his words. He comes from a time when radio meant something to the public, and he's as good as there has ever been.
and unfortunately that gives me a clear difference between today and back then....
kinda sad to hear the difference... but he should never be fired.... it should be him retiring on his own...
kinda sad to hear the difference... but he should never be fired.... it should be him retiring on his own...
Don't know how many more games he has in him, but you'll never hear me talking bad about him. His kind are hard to come by.
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Since I was a Freshman 50 years ago.
Sometimes he flubs, but crap....I have lunch every Tuesday with a group of "Old Dawgs" here in Huntsville, some of them around his age. He's sharp for that age.
He's still pretty lucid for a radio guy with that history.
He's 20 or so years older than me, but if I make it that far, I can only hope I'm still as functional as him.
I'm thinking he was born around 1925. Link to story: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?page=sec/missstate
And, he is a WWII veteran. Thanks tohim for his service.
Watching the Dan Mullen show today, I was wondering: If Jack makes all the games, including the away games, that's tough on an old man.
Tough enough on younger folks. I made every game last year, except for Little Rock....but I was driving, doing my own lodging and such.
I hope Jack's with us as long as he's able and wants to.
I'd not like to be the administrative czar who had to tell him, it's time to hang it up, should it come to that.
Sometimes he flubs, but crap....I have lunch every Tuesday with a group of "Old Dawgs" here in Huntsville, some of them around his age. He's sharp for that age.
He's still pretty lucid for a radio guy with that history.
He's 20 or so years older than me, but if I make it that far, I can only hope I'm still as functional as him.
I'm thinking he was born around 1925. Link to story: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?page=sec/missstate
And, he is a WWII veteran. Thanks tohim for his service.
Watching the Dan Mullen show today, I was wondering: If Jack makes all the games, including the away games, that's tough on an old man.
Tough enough on younger folks. I made every game last year, except for Little Rock....but I was driving, doing my own lodging and such.
I hope Jack's with us as long as he's able and wants to.
I'd not like to be the administrative czar who had to tell him, it's time to hang it up, should it come to that.
creep me out too. Many of them are my age.
Kinda hard to believe that some of my best buds are still in their 20's.
Kinda hard to believe that some of my best buds are still in their 20's.
OK, tnx. I'm assuming for away games someone drives him from Tup to GTR, or wherever the flight originates.
He may not have that same energy he once had but, I'll take him over any of the other guys.
Still brings chills to me and maybe even a watery eye as I listen to him and know that he is Mississippi State football to me and many others. I can remember listening to him since I was 10 yrs old which makes that about 40 yrs now.
I for one will miss those calls for games such as this!
Still brings chills to me and maybe even a watery eye as I listen to him and know that he is Mississippi State football to me and many others. I can remember listening to him since I was 10 yrs old which makes that about 40 yrs now.
I for one will miss those calls for games such as this!