I Watched Most Of Alabama/Mississippi, “Oh Boy”

This is veteran CBS sportscaster Verne Lundquist’s last football season, as he is retiring, I believe after the Southeastern Conference title tilt in December.

Yesterday in Oxford, Mississippi, during top ranked and defending champion Alabama’s “shady,” to say the least, “no cover,” (48-43) win vs the home team “Ole Miss” Rebels, the public address announcer and CBS offered praise for Lundquist, whose horrible factual mistake saying “we all know where we were when Bobby Thomson hit his pennant winning run in NINETEEN FIFTY TWO” (of course it was 1951) never hurt his successful career.

As part of the CBS praise of Lundquist, a presentation to Lundquist by Archie Manning was shown and in giving thanks, Lundquist bumbled calling Manning, Archie Griffin. He was kidded, but that mistake, a slip of the tongue, can be forgiven, but some of his other work/mistakes, must endure criticism.

Before citing some of those mistakes by both Lundquist and analyst, Gary Danielson, who is still talking, I must say as bad as Lundquist and even Danielson are, they are better, more accurately, in my opinion, not as bad  as any other college “pig” broadcasting team. I will wish for Lundquist’s return, next year, when an even more inept broadcaster is hired.

My comments on the broadcast, the game, big time college ‘pig” and despite it, praise for Nick Saban, the title winning, Alabama coach, will be present in future posts.