Via OOB - made a good point - Jack Cristil needs a wikipedia page...
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Hope this is not overkill but I am sure there are more.<div>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cristil-isms</div><div>
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</div><div>“Bulldogs recover! Bulldogs recover! Bulldogs recover!”</div><div>Alabama game – 1980</div><div>
</div><div>While posing for the photo, I asked Jack if this win had made up for football season (the 2003 season, where MSU finished 2-10 and Jackie Sherrill resigned). Jack simply replied, “What football season?” ~ vhdawg</div><div>
</div><div>“the dawgs are moving from our left to right”?</div><div>“LSU is set up in a 2-3 zone defensive alignment”?</div><div>“State moves the ball up the floor against Man to man pressure”?</div><div>“BIG Eric Damper SLAMS it home”?</div><div>“Bart Hyche makes good on both attempts from the charity stripe”</div><div>?“Coach signals in the plays from the bench”?</div><div>“State is there classic home whites with MAROON lettering”?</div><div>“Barry Stewart launches a 3 from the other side of Maben”?</div><div>“Dee Bost throws the ball ahead to Ravern Johnson where he lays it home and good’</div><div>?My Favorite…..”you can wrap up the SEC tournament in maroon and white here in ATLANTA”</div><div>
</div><div>State's offense was sputtering one day with the football as Jack one lined, "And now the Bulldogs will attempt to run something that resembles an offensive play".</div><div>
</div><div>??From the late 70's: "Greg Grim fakes left, dribbles right, stops, shoots, up in out no good, rebound Rickey Brown who SLAMS IT IN THE GOAL WITH AUTHORITY!! ??</div><div>
</div><div>At Rupp Arena about 25 some odd years ago Jack was growing upset with the officiating. After yet another no call on Kentucky when there surely should have been one, Jack yelled out, "HEY REF, CAN'T YOU CALL A DAMN FOUL!!"</div><div>
</div><div>"the friendly confines of Scott Field."</div><div>
</div><div>While announcing a football game between State and Memphis State back in the sixties Jack could not hide his displeasure and disappointment with how things were going. At one point you could here a loud noise in the background. Jack's comment was: "There goes a jet aircraft overhead. I hope it's one of ours."</div><div>
</div><div>"in and out no good"</div><div>?"he can not go"?</div><div>"6 tall 190"</div><div>?"he is hotter than the depot stove"?</div><div>"on the campus of Mississippi State University"?</div><div>and of course from 1980 ?"Bulldogs recover, Bulldogs recover, Bulldogs recover.</div><div>
</div><div>I remember listening to a game against Kentucky @ Rupp during the Pitino era. A loose ball came over the scorer's table directly into Jack's hands after a questionable non-call. You could tell he tried to cover the mike, but when he handed the ball back to the official, you could hear Jack say "What's the matter, did you swallow your **** whistle?"</div><div>
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</div><div>"A lot of you make jokes about the smoking. A few years ago, a caller into Dawgstalk told me, 'Jack, we love you, and we wish you'd quit smoking so we can have you around for a few more years.'??</div><div>"'Son, you know my grandfather lived to be 98 years old?'??</div><div>"No... did he smoke?'??</div><div>"No, he minded his own d@mn business.'"</div><div>
</div><div>Hearing Jack say the ball was equidistant from the sideline stripes.</div><div>
</div><div>After an embarrassing loss to the University of Maine (I believe), Jack had to recap with the Sonic drive of the game, which was something like this: "Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've witnessed here at Scott Field this afternoon, the best drive of today will be the one I take going home to Tupelo - that will be the Sonic drive of the game!"?</div><div>
</div><div>Auburn is beating State years ago by many, many points, and immediately following another Auburn touchdown, while the Auburn kickoff team lines up to kick off, Jack says "Auburn's kick off team takes the field, as they have done so many times today..."</div><div>
</div><div>"patented Kentucky karate defense"</div><div>
</div><div>~</div><div>As a student worker for LSU sports information in 1979, I spotted for him during Charlie McClendon's final home game. He threw a $10 bill on the counter for me. He was smooth and perfect. I reminded him of it a year ago and he said, "let's see, $10 at six percent interest over 31 years. . . ". He didn't finish the sentence. I was laughing.? ?</div><div>It won't be just State fans that miss him.? ? ?</div><div>Jim Kleinpeter?</div><div>LSU beat writer?</div><div>New Orleans Times Picayune</div><div>
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</div><div>Of the 1963 Liberty Bowl in Philadelphia on a day when it was, as Cristil put it, "colder than a pawnbroker's heart."</div><div>Sen. John C. Stennis, another beloved State man, sat in the unheated press box alongside Cristil, both of them bundled in coats and blankets. "It was so cold, our coffee would freeze before we drank it," Cristil said.</div><div>Of a State-Alabama football game when Bob Hope was on tour and doing a show that night in Tuscaloosa, unbeknownst to Cristil. Bear Bryant's boys, as usual, were beating up on State when somebody came by the visitors' radio booth and whispered to Cristil, "Hope is available at halftime if you want him."</div><div>Responded Cristil, "Fellow, I need some hope right now."</div><div>Thing is, even during all those many bleak years when Mississippi State fans had little if any hope, they had Jack Cristil. If it sounds trite, then so be it: It will never be quite the same without him.</div><div>~</div><div>"Come on, guys, this is hard enough."</div><div>~</div><div>TSUN Game 0-45</div><div>“The QB and the receiver weren’t on the same page there; but hey, it’s only week eleven.”</div><div>“Handoff to Dixon. And Dixon is murdered on the play.”</div><div>After Ole Miss went up 17-0 in the 1st Quarter: “They are going to have to send in their second kickoff coverage unit because the first unit is going to tire out with all of these kickoffs.”</div><div>“Ole Miss has just scored and we don’t know who scored because No. 85 isn’t listed on their roster. It’s academic at this point.”</div><div>After an MSU holding call, “Well, if you can’t block ‘em, hold ‘em!? John Correro: “One can only hope so, Jack.”</div><div>“It’s third down and so long, you will need surveying equipment to see how much is needed for a first down.”</div><div>“There are only 45 seconds left. Maybe Ole Miss won’t score another touchdown. In the 1st quarter that is.”</div><div>“Coming up on the end of the quarter – the third quarter, that is. We’ve still got another one to play.</div><div>“At the end of the third quarter, Ole Miss barely out in front, 38-0.”</div><div>“Ole Miss has punted once today for a grand total of 12 yards. They ought to improve on that with this next punt.” (Laughter in the background as he was saying it)</div><div>“Let’s punt it again. McAdams has to punt it a lot in his final game as a Bulldog.”</div><div>In the 4th Quarter: “For the record both teams have all of their timeouts left. So, that ought to make it fun.”</div><div>“Well, what do you know? The Rebels have put a couple of backup linemen in the game.”</div><div>“Mercifully, the clock continues to run.”</div><div>“About 3 minutes left, many fans have long been gone. In fact, some of them are probably already home by now.”</div><div>“Chris Relf can throw it long. He cannot throw it accurately, but he can throw it long.”</div><div>“Well, that’s only a loss of 9 there. So, it’s only third and 19.”</div><div>“A great many of the 55,000 fans have left the game now (45-0), they might even be home now watching on TV”.</div><div>“It’s 4th down and 24 yards to go, this ought to dictate a punt right now. “</div><div>?John Correro: “One can only hope so, Jack.”</div><div>“Well, the Bulldogs take a delay of game. That backs them up to their 4 where it will be fourth and 31. We just wanted to make sure McAdams had plenty of room to kick the ball because he has such a powerful leg.”</div><div>“That’s it. Ballgame over. Ole Miss noses out Mississippi State, 45-0.”</div><div>“Sonic drive of the game….My drive home to Tupelo, MS I guarantee you that is my drive of the game.” Then he proceeded to give his home address.</div><div>After Ole Miss was twice flagged for celebration after scoring: “That’s terrible, throwing a flag on a kid that just made a great play. Let the kid celebrate a little.”</div><div>~</div><div>And LSU puts in their second team, that ought to even things up a bit!"</div><div>~</div><div>On the last score by MSU with 40 seconds to go, as MSU goes in to score a flag is thrown by the official.</div><div>Jack still wild with excitement says on the radio,</div><div>
</div><div>"It the officials threw a flag on us for celebration, I will shoot them."</div><div>The flag was for face-mask by FL.</div><div>Well after 51 years, I guess you can get away with anything.</div><div>Good win for MSU.</div><div>~</div><div>
</div><div>"He got it again! He's as hot as a depot stove!"</div><div>?"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to a sun-bathed Scott Field at Davis Wade Stadium on the beautiful campus of Mississippi State University."</div><div>?"The Bulldogs are seven yards away from the land of milk and honey, trailing nothing to three with two times out remaining."</div><div>?"The maroon-headgeared, maroon-jersied, white trousered Bulldogs will have football possession with the ball equidistant from the sideline stripes."</div><div>
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</div>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cristil-isms</div><div>
</div><div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>“Bulldogs recover! Bulldogs recover! Bulldogs recover!”</div><div>Alabama game – 1980</div><div>
</div><div>While posing for the photo, I asked Jack if this win had made up for football season (the 2003 season, where MSU finished 2-10 and Jackie Sherrill resigned). Jack simply replied, “What football season?” ~ vhdawg</div><div>
</div><div>“the dawgs are moving from our left to right”?</div><div>“LSU is set up in a 2-3 zone defensive alignment”?</div><div>“State moves the ball up the floor against Man to man pressure”?</div><div>“BIG Eric Damper SLAMS it home”?</div><div>“Bart Hyche makes good on both attempts from the charity stripe”</div><div>?“Coach signals in the plays from the bench”?</div><div>“State is there classic home whites with MAROON lettering”?</div><div>“Barry Stewart launches a 3 from the other side of Maben”?</div><div>“Dee Bost throws the ball ahead to Ravern Johnson where he lays it home and good’</div><div>?My Favorite…..”you can wrap up the SEC tournament in maroon and white here in ATLANTA”</div><div>
</div><div>State's offense was sputtering one day with the football as Jack one lined, "And now the Bulldogs will attempt to run something that resembles an offensive play".</div><div>
</div><div>??From the late 70's: "Greg Grim fakes left, dribbles right, stops, shoots, up in out no good, rebound Rickey Brown who SLAMS IT IN THE GOAL WITH AUTHORITY!! ??</div><div>
</div><div>At Rupp Arena about 25 some odd years ago Jack was growing upset with the officiating. After yet another no call on Kentucky when there surely should have been one, Jack yelled out, "HEY REF, CAN'T YOU CALL A DAMN FOUL!!"</div><div>
</div><div>"the friendly confines of Scott Field."</div><div>
</div><div>While announcing a football game between State and Memphis State back in the sixties Jack could not hide his displeasure and disappointment with how things were going. At one point you could here a loud noise in the background. Jack's comment was: "There goes a jet aircraft overhead. I hope it's one of ours."</div><div>
</div><div>"in and out no good"</div><div>?"he can not go"?</div><div>"6 tall 190"</div><div>?"he is hotter than the depot stove"?</div><div>"on the campus of Mississippi State University"?</div><div>and of course from 1980 ?"Bulldogs recover, Bulldogs recover, Bulldogs recover.</div><div>
</div><div>I remember listening to a game against Kentucky @ Rupp during the Pitino era. A loose ball came over the scorer's table directly into Jack's hands after a questionable non-call. You could tell he tried to cover the mike, but when he handed the ball back to the official, you could hear Jack say "What's the matter, did you swallow your **** whistle?"</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>"A lot of you make jokes about the smoking. A few years ago, a caller into Dawgstalk told me, 'Jack, we love you, and we wish you'd quit smoking so we can have you around for a few more years.'??</div><div>"'Son, you know my grandfather lived to be 98 years old?'??</div><div>"No... did he smoke?'??</div><div>"No, he minded his own d@mn business.'"</div><div>
</div><div>Hearing Jack say the ball was equidistant from the sideline stripes.</div><div>
</div><div>After an embarrassing loss to the University of Maine (I believe), Jack had to recap with the Sonic drive of the game, which was something like this: "Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've witnessed here at Scott Field this afternoon, the best drive of today will be the one I take going home to Tupelo - that will be the Sonic drive of the game!"?</div><div>
</div><div>Auburn is beating State years ago by many, many points, and immediately following another Auburn touchdown, while the Auburn kickoff team lines up to kick off, Jack says "Auburn's kick off team takes the field, as they have done so many times today..."</div><div>
</div><div>"patented Kentucky karate defense"</div><div>
</div><div>~</div><div>As a student worker for LSU sports information in 1979, I spotted for him during Charlie McClendon's final home game. He threw a $10 bill on the counter for me. He was smooth and perfect. I reminded him of it a year ago and he said, "let's see, $10 at six percent interest over 31 years. . . ". He didn't finish the sentence. I was laughing.? ?</div><div>It won't be just State fans that miss him.? ? ?</div><div>Jim Kleinpeter?</div><div>LSU beat writer?</div><div>New Orleans Times Picayune</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>Of the 1963 Liberty Bowl in Philadelphia on a day when it was, as Cristil put it, "colder than a pawnbroker's heart."</div><div>Sen. John C. Stennis, another beloved State man, sat in the unheated press box alongside Cristil, both of them bundled in coats and blankets. "It was so cold, our coffee would freeze before we drank it," Cristil said.</div><div>Of a State-Alabama football game when Bob Hope was on tour and doing a show that night in Tuscaloosa, unbeknownst to Cristil. Bear Bryant's boys, as usual, were beating up on State when somebody came by the visitors' radio booth and whispered to Cristil, "Hope is available at halftime if you want him."</div><div>Responded Cristil, "Fellow, I need some hope right now."</div><div>Thing is, even during all those many bleak years when Mississippi State fans had little if any hope, they had Jack Cristil. If it sounds trite, then so be it: It will never be quite the same without him.</div><div>~</div><div>"Come on, guys, this is hard enough."</div><div>~</div><div>TSUN Game 0-45</div><div>“The QB and the receiver weren’t on the same page there; but hey, it’s only week eleven.”</div><div>“Handoff to Dixon. And Dixon is murdered on the play.”</div><div>After Ole Miss went up 17-0 in the 1st Quarter: “They are going to have to send in their second kickoff coverage unit because the first unit is going to tire out with all of these kickoffs.”</div><div>“Ole Miss has just scored and we don’t know who scored because No. 85 isn’t listed on their roster. It’s academic at this point.”</div><div>After an MSU holding call, “Well, if you can’t block ‘em, hold ‘em!? John Correro: “One can only hope so, Jack.”</div><div>“It’s third down and so long, you will need surveying equipment to see how much is needed for a first down.”</div><div>“There are only 45 seconds left. Maybe Ole Miss won’t score another touchdown. In the 1st quarter that is.”</div><div>“Coming up on the end of the quarter – the third quarter, that is. We’ve still got another one to play.</div><div>“At the end of the third quarter, Ole Miss barely out in front, 38-0.”</div><div>“Ole Miss has punted once today for a grand total of 12 yards. They ought to improve on that with this next punt.” (Laughter in the background as he was saying it)</div><div>“Let’s punt it again. McAdams has to punt it a lot in his final game as a Bulldog.”</div><div>In the 4th Quarter: “For the record both teams have all of their timeouts left. So, that ought to make it fun.”</div><div>“Well, what do you know? The Rebels have put a couple of backup linemen in the game.”</div><div>“Mercifully, the clock continues to run.”</div><div>“About 3 minutes left, many fans have long been gone. In fact, some of them are probably already home by now.”</div><div>“Chris Relf can throw it long. He cannot throw it accurately, but he can throw it long.”</div><div>“Well, that’s only a loss of 9 there. So, it’s only third and 19.”</div><div>“A great many of the 55,000 fans have left the game now (45-0), they might even be home now watching on TV”.</div><div>“It’s 4th down and 24 yards to go, this ought to dictate a punt right now. “</div><div>?John Correro: “One can only hope so, Jack.”</div><div>“Well, the Bulldogs take a delay of game. That backs them up to their 4 where it will be fourth and 31. We just wanted to make sure McAdams had plenty of room to kick the ball because he has such a powerful leg.”</div><div>“That’s it. Ballgame over. Ole Miss noses out Mississippi State, 45-0.”</div><div>“Sonic drive of the game….My drive home to Tupelo, MS I guarantee you that is my drive of the game.” Then he proceeded to give his home address.</div><div>After Ole Miss was twice flagged for celebration after scoring: “That’s terrible, throwing a flag on a kid that just made a great play. Let the kid celebrate a little.”</div><div>~</div><div>And LSU puts in their second team, that ought to even things up a bit!"</div><div>~</div><div>On the last score by MSU with 40 seconds to go, as MSU goes in to score a flag is thrown by the official.</div><div>Jack still wild with excitement says on the radio,</div><div>
</div><div>"It the officials threw a flag on us for celebration, I will shoot them."</div><div>The flag was for face-mask by FL.</div><div>Well after 51 years, I guess you can get away with anything.</div><div>Good win for MSU.</div><div>~</div><div>
</div><div>"He got it again! He's as hot as a depot stove!"</div><div>?"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to a sun-bathed Scott Field at Davis Wade Stadium on the beautiful campus of Mississippi State University."</div><div>?"The Bulldogs are seven yards away from the land of milk and honey, trailing nothing to three with two times out remaining."</div><div>?"The maroon-headgeared, maroon-jersied, white trousered Bulldogs will have football possession with the ball equidistant from the sideline stripes."</div><div>
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