Emery Gives a Motivational Speech | Friday 4: Sportscasters

Emery Gives a Motivational Speech | Friday 4: Sportscasters

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I saw this. I heard about this one. Somebody said
this can't remember who. Sorry to those who I am
not a contributing the quote to. But people who want
to be great are never satisfied with themselves. And that
is true. No, it's not because never being satisfied. The
carrot is in front of me. I'm satisfied with moments,
I'm not satisfied. Holy holy, Holy with a W No, No,

(00:24):
here's what it is. And this is a lesson to
all of your aspiring, great people out there with high ambition.
It's okay not to be happy with yourself because the
moment you wake up and you look in the mirror
and you say, I like what I see, that's the
moment you have lost the battle. You've lost if you

(00:46):
want to stay ahead in this game called life, and
you have the ambition to achieve the highest things you
want to achieve. And for every person that's different. It
looks different for every single person out there. But I
need the carrot. I need something to chase, I need
something to keep me moving, motivating. You know what, I'm
gonna achieve one goal and I got another goal, and
then I'm gonna achieve that goal. I'm gonna have another goal,

(01:06):
and then I'm gonna achieve that goal, and I'm gonna
have another goal. There's never gonna be a time where
I'm like, I'm good, I'm happy, because that's when all
of a sudden, you know what's gonna happen to me,
The brain shuts off, the purpose of life goes away.
And that's how I'm wired. I need the carrot. I
need to be unsatisfied, to chase something, to feel the

(01:27):
excitement of a victory in life. And then, much like
maybe Nick Saban would have been a guy like this,
coach K will celebrate this one, but you know what,
tomorrow morning, I'm on to the next one. We're looking
at North Carolina, I'm looking at Florida. We got Ohio
State next week and I'm thinking about them.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's my mind that's my mindset, and that's how I live.
And I feel oh so much juice, so much juice,
and it just it trickles down into everything in my being.
I want to score in my soccer video game. Every
time I get a good look at goal, I want
it to go in the back of the net. You
it does maybe ten twenty percent of the time, depends

(02:03):
on what kind of look it is. It's a wide
open that I'd like it to go in one hundred
percent of time. Maybe it's only seventy percent of the time.
But you don't want to know something every time it
doesn't go in. I'm like, I could have done better there,
And you know what I do the next time? I
do better next time. You know why? Because life is
full of lessons.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Matt.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
If you're not learning, you're losing. That's a quote you
can attribute to this guy right here. And what does
it mean though, If you're not learning lessons, you're losing
in life. Every day there are lessons for us to learn.
How do you lose life?

Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's a colloquial term. It's not a literal term. It's
a figurative term. Winning in life is you feeling like
you're moving the direction you'd like And for every person
that's different. For me, I like to have challenges for
me to go after and capture and attack and try
to succeed.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Those are little wins. Right, I'm gonna get done with
my radio show this week. You know, I'm gonna go
do I'm gonna go home and have great night to night.
You know, what am I gonna do. I'm gonna get
my steps and whenever I have left, gonna hang out
with my dogs and my wife, and I'm probably gonna
have a couple of cocktails or maybe even a beer,
and I'm gonna say, you know what, this week, job
well done. Way to go another week down doing the

(03:14):
best that you can at the job that you have.
Next week, what are the things we're gonna do better?
What are the things that we're gonna do next week?
And then over the weekend? Right? Winning it life? I
did a seven and a half mile hike on Saturday
last week at Indian Cave. You know what felt like
when I sat down to make that fire and cook
those hot dogs over the grill? Know what it felt like? Victory?

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Victory.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I popped open some coldies next time I my campfire
while my feet were throbbing, and you know what I
was like, Yes, we did it. He feels great, folks,
Oh that was good losing in life for me. You
know what my definition is not going on that hike,
not challenging yourself to see what you can't achieve, and
sometimes you will fail, But that's okay because you know

(03:56):
what happens in failure, you learn and if you ate learning,
you're losing there. It is quote by Amory Songer twenty
twenty five. Put it on a mug, put it on
a T shirt? Does that answer your question there?

Speaker 5 (04:08):
Pal Ooh the pejorative pal what, I'm just being a
smart alec. Yeah, it does from your perspective, and I
really appreciate it, and I definitely learned from your perspective
in that moment. I think that we all come from
our own unique perspectives in life. And I see your
point based on how you live it in your.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Life, well, thank you. I mean, everyone's experience in life
is different, everybody's goals are different. Everybody has different things
that keep them motivated to do more or do better,
or for some people it is about just feeling satisfied
on a day to day basising if that works for you, great,
it wouldn't work for me.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
On Good Friday. I do feel like it would behoove somebody,
namely me, to at least bring up the idea that
if you think you're gonna only be set, if you
think your satisfaction can only come from material possessions and
victories and all these little things in life I do
think ultimately you're going to feel unfulfilled. You're gonna feel
un full. There's good, there's there's a whole inside you

(05:03):
that can only be fulfilled spiritually. So I think that
there's credence to that and I and that's that's how
I see it. We could break down Ecclesiastes next, but hey,
that might bore the listeners, But hey, what does it
say in Ecclesiastes?

Speaker 4 (05:19):
You know?

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Everything is uh? What is everything is fleeting under the sun?
Let me look it up. But basically, there's a lot
of toil that men and women go through that doesn't
really fulfill their soul.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
And there's only really one way to do that. Dang nice.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
Now, maybe seventy year old Emory will hear me say
that and be like, I see where you were coming from.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
But to be.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Honest, thirty eight year old Matt needs to have more
of your perspective in his life.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
So I appreciate it well, And this is uh, you know,
good Friday. It's a good, good topic here that you've
just kind of twisted it twisted us down a different
rabbit hole spiritually. You could talk about how different that
might be for other people. There are people that want
to be very spiritual in a very hands on way
all the time, and they love to even take hours

(06:01):
of their day on regular days during the week and
wash over themselves the words of the Scripture. They like
to be in church and have prayer in the church.
They like to be fully engulfed in that world on
a regular basis, and that works for them. There are
some people where that may not be an option, but
they still want to practice and feel the spirit of
Jesus and God, especially in a you know, even the

(06:24):
Cristers who you know are going to church for one
of their two appearances this Sunday, you know, like this,
you know, there's a moment where you do kind of
feel that little flame fire up and you do feel fulfilled,
and you may just have to you exist with that
hole in you because you just don't commit enough to it.
And for some people out there, and I don't I'm
not here to tell you that this is right or wrong,

(06:45):
but there are some people out there that do feel
like they do have a nice, full life they're living
and spirituality is something that is not a part of
that at this moment. That doesn't mean that tomorrow it
won't be. That doesn't mean that five years ago it wasn't.
But everybody's experience on this earth takes its own meeting
based on how we interpret the world around us, and
I am one of the people that you're going to

(07:06):
see you try everything. You should absolutely get yourself involved
in anything that you haven't tried before. It is going
to make you feel a completely different experience, even if
it's a negative one. It's something that you're going to
feel a new sensation and you never know what might
click for you, especially if there's something out there that
you're chasing and you're not sure what it is. Spirituality

(07:27):
can be a big gap bridger there for a lot
of people until they truly understand who they are, especially
when you're talking about this time of the year. So nice,
nicely done, Matt Good good good steerage on a good Friday.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
Well I would say foundation instead of gap, but you
know that's where I come from.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Right there you go, three nineteen, Thanks for listening. Very interesting.
Hopefully you feel motivated to run through a brick wall
now on news Radio eleven ten kfab Emri Sunger. Can
you repell inside a volcano legally?

Speaker 5 (07:58):
I wonder there's is there a plan? Yeah, people do.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
That seems like something that wouldn't be a good idea,
But you can always go in ahead and say I
repelled inside a volcano.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
A long time ago, people were repelled into a volcano
to help stop the storms. Oh you mean or to
grow better crops next season. Is sacrificing, right people?

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah? That happened a lot back in the day, didn't it.
That's what I heard. Yeah, the Aztecs did that a lot.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Just tossing in a volcano. Sometimes they do it just
for fun.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
The ass certainly do it just for the volcano. They
did it if you played a like they would have
their little sports of their games, and at the end
of it, somebody you get sacrificed.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
You imagine though, the competitive nature of that game. Now
we complain about sports today and how that competitive fire.
It just feels different than it was even than when
we were kids. At least it does for me. I
watched the NBA today and I don't see the same
competitive fire. Just being completely honest, it's different than it
used to be in the nineties. Now that's the playoffs,
we'll see it again. But I'm talking in and out games.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
It flares up a little bit.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
There's a whole lot of watching people do stuff on
defense lately, waiting for your to have the ball.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, so look we can. I'm reading an article here
about human sacrifice in the Aztec culture, and uh yeah,
human sacrifice. Could you imagine being the person? Like how
do they decide? How did they decide who was going

(09:23):
to be that person? And like how would it feel?
Because they didn't feel the same things we felt here, right,
This is why you know, even the people who signed
up to volunteer for like the Civil War, they didn't
have the same fears in the same value system. Right,
it was just like, let's go adventure I'm in. Nowadays
it's like, hey, there's a risk to this. I could die,
I could get injured.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Yeah, and you got all your video games at home
and your cheese balls. Back then, it was kind of like, hey,
it's better than sitting around.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
You had nothing else to do. It's a farm or
run your little shop or business recreation. This is the thing.
I'm reading a book right now and it's called but
didn't We Have Fun? You should read this book? I think, Okay,
fiction books, Yeah, I do, But didn't we Have Fun.
Peter Morris, I think wrote it, Peter Morris. That sounds right,
but didn't. We have Fun is the name of the book,

(10:09):
and it's about baseball. It's about baseball turning into from
like a game that school kids would play into the
national pastime and the pioneer days before professional baseball became
a thing. And it's crazy to hear there was a
real movement a lot of what the rule makers, which
were called the Knickerbocker Baseball Club, the guys who wrote

(10:30):
down the rules for the first time and kind of
helped build upon this game. They wanted to try to
make it to where people accepted adults playing this game,
because you'd be chastised playing a game for recreation if
you were in the eighteen forties, if you lived in
the eighteen forties and you were out there playing stickball,
I mean, all the lawyers in town, all the women

(10:50):
and everything, you were a joke. Dude, you're playing a
boys game. What are you doing? Heck, girls couldn't even
play a lot of these games because it was frowned upon.
We hadn't even normalized recreation in this country, and the
Civil War was the recreation. It's like, oh, there's something
for us to do. Now, let's go not to say
that that's why they fought, but you know, a lot
of them did the excitement of the adventure, and then

(11:12):
the war was obviously a lot deadlier than I think
a lot of people thought it was. Now back to
the whole point of the you know, human sacrifice. I mean,
that's just a completely different thing, and that's a ritual
that the best way that I can put it in
AI kind of helped explain this to me. Human sacrifice,
especially after ballgames, were performed to nourish the gods and
ensure the continuation of the world. The Aztecs believed the

(11:34):
gods had sacrificed themselves to create the world, and that
humans needed to reciprocate with their own sacrifices. This stemmed
from their cyclical view of time and the need to
maintain the balance of the cosmos. Huh, would you play?
Would you play the Would you play the game? If
I had to survive? They were like, Hey, by the way,

(11:54):
you're on this, you're playing in the game, and now
all of a sudden, it's like if you lose the game,
you It's like it's kind of hunger games like right,
it's in like an honor to be selected and represent
your area, but all but one of you will be killed.
You know that scene in Forrest Gump when the one
where Forrest gets sacrificed by the Aztecs. No, no, this
is earlier in the movie.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
There's that scene when he's playing for the Alabama Crimson time.
Oh yeah, and I think he takes he catches the
kickoff and he takes off running.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, well we know what happens. He doesn't stop.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
If I was playing this game and I was doing
whatever I was doing on the field, I'd wait for
eyes to be somewhere else on the field, and I
would you will a gump?

Speaker 1 (12:33):
You would? You would?

Speaker 5 (12:34):
I'd run from that village and I would go until
my legs fell off.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
So you're a deserter.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
Yeah, if my life hinged upon doing well in this game,
or I was going to be thrown into the volcano, listen.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Emery Songer.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
I was a backup on the JV soccer team. I
never saw the field. You think I'm doing well in
this game and the pressures on that means I'm at
my worst. Okay, my palms are sweaty, I'm getting gassy.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
It's not gonna be good. Okay. So what you're saying is,
if you were selected here, you would try everything you
could to get out of it, but that would be
I'd wait for my moment. You would be in the game.
You would accept the invitation because that's supposed to be
an honor.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Well, right, because if you don't, you're probably going in
the volcano. By default.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
They don't have a volcano, but they would sacrifice you.
I'm sure exactly. They're like, oh, you don't want to
play in the game, all right, well you get to
go to the stake already. Congratulations.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
And we're not talking USA Steak buffet. That place closed
in Fremont. So what I'm saying is, yes, the biggest
moment in the game, when all the eyes are on
all the other players, I'm pulling a Forest Gump, That's
what I'm doing. That's right. I'm a deserter, but I lived. Yeah,
I lived, folks, and that's why you're hearing this story
right now.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
So yeah, if you want to think that we're in
weird times now, that was stuff that actually happened actual
high I mean, at this point, Aztecs were considered in
their time to be very highly advanced amongst many of
the other tribes in North America, and for whatever it's
worth of the entire world, honestly, whether you want to,

(14:05):
they had civilization of its own kind here and they
were just sacrificing people after they played recreational ball games.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
Well back then you were considered up at the if
you were eating people.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Is that true? No, I was trying to be funny. Yeah,
I don't know if that was true. All Right, three
twenty nine, This conversation probably isn't going to continue, and
thank god we will come. We got the Friday four
is gonna be coming up. It's going to be a
fun one as well. And if you got any thoughts
on something, go ahead and email me Emory atkfab dot
com on NewsRadio elevens in kfab and Marie's songer Sacrifice

(14:39):
Human sacrifice with the Aztecs. Yeah, and then you couldn't
figure out what I was trying to get you to
guess that a easter egg hunts or what's going on here?
And I basically spent ten minutes dying laughing at what
you thought I was talking about. Yeah, I was being
kind of wild. Sorry, it was great. It was great.
And by the way, we finally got to the Easter
egg story, which was really not east but marshmallows which

(15:01):
were being dropped out of a helicopter in the Detroit
area for toddlers to run after and not eat, which
is absurd. Yeah, I don't I don't know. You need
more context than I gave you. But with that context,
you're like, what are they doing? And so you're gonna
have to find the Emory Sunger podcast is what you're
gonna do to learn about all that good stuff Detroit.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
And they've been doing this for three decades.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yep, yep. A lot of people sent me stuff on
the email, basically making references to the WKRP in Cincinnati.
Bit but God is my witness. I thought turkeys could fly,
you know, dropping turkeys out of a helicopter. Yeah, yeah,
it's funny. That's that's funny stuff. Anyway. Yeah, So here

(15:41):
we are four o'clock hour. You know what that means
Friday for yesterday. You weren't here when I did this,
But I talked to Sean Callahan and we talked about
Lee Corso retiring from college game Day. Let's get your
thoughts Lee Corso, what does he mean to you? Like
for the people out there that may or may not
know about him, how do you feel about Lee? Course

(16:02):
on what will you remember him as after he retires
in the fall? Interesting?

Speaker 5 (16:06):
I think that my immediate thoughts on Lee just say it.
He stayed in the game too long.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Too long. It's been awkward. Last five or six years
have been tough to watch.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
You tell me a person out there who isn't relieved
that Lee is finally going to enjoy his golden years
off the TV.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
I just I don't want to be there. I don't
want to be the guy that says that it was
too much because it's his life to live and if
he really enjoys it that much and he would rather
do that than retire, awesome. But if you're ESPN, you
were trotting him out there way longer, He's just not
the same guy. He's not healthy, he's eighty nine years old,
he's about to be ninety, and it's been tough to

(16:47):
watch the last you know, six or seven years. I
think you know, and you know what. I'm with you.
I think it's good to know that we're going to
get a chance to say goodbye. To him, and he
gets to he gets to experience that. But yeah, now
that doesn't take away from the overall legacy that he has,
which you know, we can describe in a bunch of ways, Yeah, which.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
Is I mean, he's a part of making college football
what it was.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
He's a part of that rise. He made it fun.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
When I was a kid, and you saw Lee Corso
and you knew when it was getting close to game time,
you knew he was going to pull out some high jinks.
He was going to pull out a mascot head or
something and and have fun with it. And and yeah,
he was an exciting part of the joy and fun
of college football.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, And honestly, college game Day isn't the success it
has become without him and the headgear pick and all
that stuff. He's He's got just an unbelievable legacy behind him.
That led me to think about what we should do
here for our Friday four, which we always try to
be somewhat topical and Lee Corso for a lot of people,

(17:52):
I mean, he we woke up with Lee when we
were growing up and we were getting ready for a
big college football Saturday, which I know you and I
you know, people like us. We lived for that stuff
in the fall. We loved watching it. Whether the you know,
our favorite team for you the Huskers, for me the Cyclones,
and you know, whether our team was like really good
or involved, it really didn't matter. We just wanted to
get excited for all the games we were going to

(18:13):
get to watch that day. And Lee had such a
reverence for college football, in such a respect for the
game itself. He was carrying around that Dixon Tykwonder roga
pencil and holding it like a coach, would you know,
and the way that he would talk about the game.
But obviously in recent years that analysis hasn't been there.
He's just basically been there as kind of the show's mascot.
So anybody's watched the show lately where Pat McAfee I

(18:36):
think has kind of taken that lane of like the
guy with the chaos because Lee's courso would say some
crazy things and not so fast, my friend, and all
that stuff, right, but they didn't want to tell Lee
that it was time to go right, So if you've
watched in recent years, you don't really have an understanding
of what a legendis. Guy was find it on YouTube
because there's some real great analysis that you'll find from

(18:57):
those college game days, and it just felt important. Whatever
game that they were at that week, late nineties, early
two thousands, it mattered. Yeah, So I was thinking the
great or your favorite your Mount Rushmore, and your Friday
four of sports media personalities. This could be play by
play guys. This could be color commentators. This could be
sports writers. This could be commentators or analysts that are

(19:19):
in the studio like Lee Corso. This could be anybody
who kind of just commentates on things with the sports background.
I honestly felt like we could go to like full
media personalities and like analysts, but it's just such a
broad perspective. I think we need to stay with sports.
So sports media personalities, Do you have a list? I

(19:41):
am basically there. Yeah, you're trimming right now. I'm trimming
as well. By the time we come back on the
other side of this break, me and Matt will give
you our list. You start thinking about your list too.
Your four favorite sports media personalities ever, that's coming up
on news radio eleven to ten kfa B and were
you songer? This is your favorite play by play? Your
favorite analysts. This could be studio analysts, your color commentators.

(20:04):
This could be your sports center anchors, this could be
sports writers, podcasters, I mean, anything sports related. In honor
of the announcement of the retirement of Lee Corso in
college game Day, and I'll let you go first. I
know you to be a pretty big sports fan. I
think you and I both are going to be coming
from different places on this list. I'm having a really

(20:27):
hard time to be honest with you, because I just
in take so much and I like so many types
of different people. But I'm going to do the best
that I can to get down to the four that
I think I need to get to. So I'll let
you go first. What you got Friday for favorite sports
media personalities?

Speaker 5 (20:43):
This list starts one place, and this place won't be topped.
In my heart, this name won't be topped on this list.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
For me.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
This was the voice who illustrated the biggest moments of
my Saturday afternoon, whether that was me on the couch
or in the backyard. He narrated the moments I was living.
Keith Jackson, oh hell y yeah, Or when Desmond Howard
blows up, you know, explodes into the end zone. Hell oh, Heisman,

(21:11):
you know, just like he just he was the best.
He had this sort of controlled delivery, but he knew
when to rise up for the moments. He had that
just you know, a bit of a Southern drawl that
kind of just gave it that extra that you knew
it was Keith on the call.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah. Man, he's tough to beat. He's tough to beat.

Speaker 5 (21:28):
He's He's my favorite. He always will be. My second
favorite is number two, John Madden.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
He's on my list as well.

Speaker 5 (21:34):
And it's kind of like it's really one A and
one B because those were the voice of football to
me as a kid. And I think Keith Jackson is
number one just because the Huskers were our number one
for the team that I like the most, and so
because Keith Jackson would call their games sometimes right.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Now that he was the voice of major, big time
college football games for I think two generations, two full generations. Yeah.
I also think that John was that for professional football
for over two generations. I mean from the late seventies
when he stopped coaching, because people knew him as a
coach too. He was a coach for basically a decade
and he was great. He was one of the most

(22:10):
successful coaches out there. You want to know something else.
He was an icon. You just you hear the voice,
you know him. When they're making documentaries about you, you
know that you have a legacy there. And there's no
doubt if anybody hasn't seen All Madden The John Madden documentary,
Good stuff, man. I want to go back today where
I could on Sundays. You know, Keith Jackson on Saturdays,

(22:32):
John Madden on Sundays. That's it's never going to be topped.
No disrespect to any of the other guys. It's just
for us in our generation. You're not gonna beat it.
That was the playlist of our weekends growing up in
the fall. It was Keith Jackson on Saturdays, John Madden
on Sundays. Absolutely all right.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
Next next, I gotta put him in there because he
was John Madden's cohort and he is underrated. Just because
John Madden was such a big deal, people lose track
of how good these guys work together. It's got to
be Pat Summer, all Pat Somemmer. All you want to
talk about a controlled delivery. He was so perfect, the
counterpart to John Madden. John Madden was boom and pow,

(23:11):
and he was he was you know, a color commentator
who would really, you know, add color to the game
in the sense that like he was animated, but Pat
Somemmerol was more stoic and he just gave you the
game in this deliberate, kind of just controlled voice. I
just think it was a perfect match. And I think
those two belong on the mount rushboard. And I think
Pat Summerol is isn't as celebrated as he should be,

(23:33):
but he was a part of what made John Madden great.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, And I don't disagree with that assessment. I just
feel like in the annals of time, they were perfect
for each other. But Pat's play by play is completely
unnotable from my perspective in comparison to some of the
other of his contemporaries and modern day I mean, play
by play has become such an art right that I

(23:56):
think is you know, he just he by himself couldn't
stand up Madden. When he started to work with Al
Michaels and did Monday Night Football and then Sunday Night Football,
he was still a king. He was still amazing past
Summer all God bless him for what he did. And
he certainly also was a soundtrack of my Sundays growing up,
but he just he doesn't quite hold up enough to

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be on my Friday four. But they're synonymous with each other,
there's no doubt.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
And then lastly, lastly, I would like to do honorable
mention all the awesome voices from Sports Center that I
would grow up watching when I'd go to my grandparents'
house because they were the ones who had ESPN. So
you're talking Dan, Patrick, Stewart, Scott, Kenny Main.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
I'm guessing this is leading to but there can only
be one.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
No.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
I just wanted to do a shout out to that
category because I'm sticking in play by play. Oh okay,
all right, four of the four okay, And the fourth one,
to me, is another one of those voices that is
so synonymous to something. This is so synonymous to nineties basketball,
to Jordan's greatest moments.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
I think we're on the same page here.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
All he had to do was say the guy's name,
say yes, and you know it. Yeah, Marv Albert, Marv
Albert so good. One of those voices where he just
literally gives me chills when I hear his calls.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
You want to talk about the soundtrack to the Golden
era of NBA basketball. Yes, Marv Albert had to be
on my list when he he had he got in trouble. Yeah,
I don't know if you remember in the mid to
late nineties he got in trouble and he didn't get
to call the nineteen ninety eight finals and stuff, and
you know, but but you want to talk about the

(25:28):
notice how much you notice going back and rewatching some
of that stuff when it's Bob Costas on the call
instead of Marv Albert, It is way worse. Marv Albert
was made for that stuff, and I'm glad that he
got back into it a couple of years later and
was able to have an additional chapter to his illustrious career,
because there is nobody that was better at calling the

(25:50):
big games in the NBA when it was at its
peak than Marv Albert. One hundred percent. That's a good
call by you. Yeah, just don't look up what he did.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
Well.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean, we're separating the art from the artist. Sure,
that's just what I say, the colic style, Yes, exactly.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
John Madden and Marve Albert both on my list for
my Friday four So you and I have this doesn't
happen often. We're fifty percent of our list is the
same nice I had to put Brent Musburger on here.
That's kind of my Keith Jackson roll. The thing about
Brent was he was also able to do He did
pro football, he did NBA back in the seventies and
the eighties. He was also able to do a ton

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of college football. He did some great, big college football stuff.
This was a guy that started in the studio in
for CBS in the seventies and worked his way into
doing high level play by play. Guy could do it all.
I'm a big respector of the guys who literally you
can pluck them out of anything and put them into
any sport and they'd be awesome at it. There's a

(26:49):
few of those guys now. There's Mike Tarico is one.
I feel like Joe Tessitore is another who you know,
you can kind of put into any situation. I love
guys like that, or they can show up to the
horse track and give you, you know, run the show
for like the Belmont Stakes. A guy that I can
take you to like Chris Fowler is a good example

(27:10):
of this. He does great college football work, but he's
also excellent at calling tennis. I can take that guy
and I can put him in an NFL game and
he's gonna do all right. But he can also call
his college basketball game over here and it's gonna sound
really good. Joe Buck baseball, football. You know, like all
these different things, but very few times do you have
somebody who can give you the biggest moments in basketball,

(27:30):
give you the biggest moments in the studio, give you
the biggest moments in football at both a professional in
the collegiate level. Britt Musburger was able to do that.
So what a career he had. And I just love
him for his versatility more than anything. Lastly, this one
may be controversial. Bill Simmons. I put Bill Simmons in
my Friday for and this is completely personal. This is

(27:50):
a guy that basically was the godfather of podcasting. Nobody
has like he really kickstarted what became the popularity of
podcasts in the mid two thousands. He was a guy
who was just a big fan of the Boston area teams,
started writing a column that was local in Boston, got
on page two. If you remember ESPN dot coms when
they actually did, you know, like stories and columns. He

(28:12):
had a page two column and he was the sports
guy and he parlaid that into great success. He was
the fan that made it big. And then he wrote books.
And I don't know if you've read his Book of Basketball.
Have you read that? Have you read the Bill but
Bill Simmons.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Dude, I know you've talked about it.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Dude, you're a nineties basketball fan. You like basketball history.
Bill Simmons Book of Basketball is the most comprehensive and
easy to read history of anything I've ever read in
my life. That thing is over seven hundred and fifty
pages long. You know that Bill Simmons Book of Basketball,
seven hundred plus pages long. I read it in like
four days. I mean, I can't put the thing down.
It is just awesome stuff. It's a bunch of lists, countdowns, players,

(28:51):
you know, profiles, you know all the different big arguments
that one could have. I love Bill Simmons. And then
he gets fired from espnoor they part ways or whatever.
He's the guy that created thirty for thirty. It was
his idea, the thirty for thirty documentaries. Bill Simmons was
the guy who came up with that idea. Oh, he's
been making documentaries for HBO lately, so he's been making
some of these big documentaries that you're still seeing. He

(29:11):
is the guy who's up populate or help popularize the
sports documentary. And then he left and created The Ringer,
which is a different podcasting group or whatever, which helps
kind of bridge the gap between sports and pop culture
and bring it all into one thing. The guy is
a pioneer of his own kind. And he to me like,
I just love everything that he's ever done. I'm just

(29:33):
a fanboy of his. So my four John Matt and
Marv Albert, Brent Musberger, and I'm gonna go with Bill Simmons,
and again I highly recommend Bill Simmons work four thirty.
All right, let's open those phones. Four h two five
five eight eleven ten. Four h two five five eight
eleven ten. If you got your Friday four of favorite
sports personalities no matter what era, or here for you
four h two five five eight eleven ten, News Radio

(29:55):
eleven ten, kfab Emri. I'm gonna get a ton of
emails on this. We'll get to the phone line you
can call in four two five five eight eleven ten.
Four h two five five to eleven ten Dave is
on the line. Dave, you got a Friday four for me?

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Oh yeah, I do. So three of them are football
on one's horse. So my Huskers wild brims are nice
and for college obviously, Keith Jackson NFL, John Madden. And
then when Secretariot was gonna win the triple Crown Chick Anderson. Yes,
if you haven't ever heard of him, listening to it,

(30:29):
especially the last one when he's when Sham are on
the back side and their neck and neck and then
all of a sudden he goes the Secretariat goes one
and a half links ahead. Now he's two and a half,
three and a half, four and a half.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
Sham is pulling back.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
You know, Secretary is running like a tremendous machine.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
One of the great calls ever. He's running like a
tremendous machine.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Oh yeah, bring your goosebumps.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, people need to watch that video. That is what
that horse did is just in saying to think about
it is so.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Great, incredible and check out Bill Simmons. Yeah basketball, I
never heard of it.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, so the Book of Basketball is an excellent book.
He wrote it in two thousand and nine. The update
because it's like at the time a lot of like
he did a list of like the top one hundred
players in there, and that was obviously for at the time.
But he did do an update with Book of Basketball
two point zero, which is a podcast. So if you
read the book and you want to know what you
know more modern thinks the things that he thinks about

(31:30):
for adjustments. He's got the podcast there. But it's fantastic, Dave.
You're gonna get hooked on his writing style. It's a
lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
All right, all right, thank you, yep.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
See you later. Okay, let's dig into some of these emails. Uh,
this is this is real good, real good stuff. I
had Steven say the list has to be Howard Cosell.
How do you grade co Cell? Definitely a sports media guy,
but it felt it feels like the era he was
in he kind of was like the Stephen A or
Skip Bayless of his era. Am I for thinking that?

(32:00):
It just feels like he like he called a lot
of games and he was at a lot of events,
but it just felt like his voice in his style
was way more opinionated than those that were his contemporaries.

Speaker 5 (32:11):
Yeah, I'd have to be from back then to really
know because I've never personally heard him live call anything.
You know, I'm only familiar with him through his relationship
with Muhammad Ali. Yeah, and some of the big moments
that he narrated that I've been able to go back
and watch.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
But and he's got that unique voice. Yeah, absolutely, how
warld go so yeah, exactly. Steve also says chick hearns
longtime Lakers broadcaster, oh Vin Scully. Okay, sure, I think
most people, if you're talking about the best ever, not
anybody can say anything bad about Vin Scully. He did
it for like eighty years. Yeah. Literally. And then Stephen

(32:48):
finishes up with John Madden. Tom says, Howard Cosell, Keith Jackson,
John Madden, and Lyle Brimser locally. Yeah, Lyle's good. That's
a good poem. And then robson an email and said,
I appreciate your younger age, but everybody in Omaha should
know who Lyle Brahms there is. In some ways k
if he may not have stayed in existence without him. Wow,

(33:11):
that's pretty crazy. My number two. He only gave me two.
Harry Carey. He's a character of a real person. Yeah,
Harry Carey is another guy. If you want to talk
about just people who left an impact even beyond the
scope of the sport they were calling. Harry Carey is
probably that guy. I mean, you could think of the Cubs,
but he broadcasted for the White Sox too, and did
he broadcasts for the Cardinals. I mean he had a

(33:32):
long career.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
Yeah, he started, which is funny, two rivals of the
Cubs ended up there and that's how people know about him.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
But I think he started with the Cardinals and then
went to the White Sox. And this is an era
an early like early on when they were broadcasting a
lot of the games for these teams, there were in
a lot of places to put those games. And then
of course he kind of got the U became kind
of a caricature of himself when he was in Chicago,
especially in the nineties. Is his career in his life
was kind of you know, winding down a bit and

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then the old ball game tradition and singing that in
the seventh inning stretch and maybe having a couple when
you're up there. No, not, Harry carry Yeah, I bet not.
John's on our phone line of four h two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten, John, what you got for me today.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
Hey, a lot of mine have been taken away.

Speaker 7 (34:17):
Good job.

Speaker 8 (34:18):
I love this topic.

Speaker 6 (34:19):
A couple of things I want to add is far
be from me to compliment Pat Summer all because he's
a Cowboys fan and I'm not a fan of those guys.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Huh.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
But who was excellent at golf in the US Open
as well, so he wasn't just narrowed down to football.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
He mastered the yard of letting the play tell you,
let the TV tell you what's going on.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:39):
I always associated for that.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, definitely a guy that was perfect for television, but
his style certainly would not have worked on radio. You know,
you needed your eyes to kind of help complete the
picture with him a bit, which is fine, which is
you know, And like I said, you know, with Madden
and his excitement and exuberance and enthusiasm, it makes a
lot of sense that kind of Summer will be the
exact opposite, which is why they worked so well together.

Speaker 6 (35:02):
And just a smooth voice, just smooth as could be.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, never too high, never too low. It
is really really good stuff. Hey, John, appreciate the call man.
Good good.

Speaker 6 (35:13):
A couple of things, real quick I want to throw
in out Michael, the greatest hoppy line of all time.

Speaker 7 (35:18):
Do you believe in miracles?

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (35:19):
And uh one thing I want Adam Vin Scully. Vin
Scully has my favorite quote ever. Well, he's doing a
game and he says Andre Dawson's out of the game tonight.
He's got a sprain knee. He's listed as day to day,
aren't we all?

Speaker 1 (35:33):
He preach, preach Ben. It's good stuff. John. Appreciate you
calling him, man, Thank you.

Speaker 6 (35:38):
I enjoyed you to thanks all.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Thanks. Tralhaz is on the phone line for two five,
eight to eleven ten, Tralfaz What is going on? How
are you doing today?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Doing great?

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Happy Friday to you?

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, what's up?

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (35:52):
I think the greatest voice.

Speaker 6 (35:53):
Of all time and if you got to be a
little older, have heard this guy.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
His name is John Facenda, the voice of God, right,
voice of.

Speaker 7 (36:00):
All NFL films.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Yeah, I mean he was it, so he was the man.

Speaker 8 (36:05):
Also, I love madd because you know he's classic voice.
Michael Buffer the oh let's.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Get ready to Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:15):
How about that?

Speaker 7 (36:16):
And I love album Michaels.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
He's just the most unique founding voice of owl.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Well. Kermit the Frog action with Al Michaels. When you
compare the two voices, Hey tras good stuff, Thanks man,
Uh yeah you too. So John Facinda was a late
cut for Mame. Uh he's he the nickname is the
Voice of God. But you know, obviously he's a narrator
for NFL films. The reason I didn't include him is

(36:44):
because I don't really think he's a personality as much
as he is just a great voice. Did you, Matt
ever watch those old NFL films videos and you would
hear you know that the John Facinda is just like
he spoke in kind of a prose that you know,
it's like Grantlin Rice writing and there's like a mythology
that feels like it's impacted and it seems so much

(37:06):
more important than it probably is because the narration is
just so perfect and his voice is so perfect.

Speaker 5 (37:12):
Oh yeah, Autumn Wind is a Raider.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Ah, you're a Raider fan, of course. There you go, yep.
And you can find a lot of those on YouTube
and on the NFL Plus app on your device if
you watch some of that stuff. That dude's voice second
to none. I just couldn't put him in the personality
thing because he really just narrated right like there wasn't
really an extra thing there. But it's a great conversation
if you want to call in. I'm getting a ton

(37:35):
of emails, so I'm think I'm gonna be good on emails.
If you want to call in, Emory, that's the email
Emory kfab dot com. But if you want to call
in four h two five five eight eleven ten four
oh two five to five, eight eleven ten on news
Radio eleven ten Kfab, Don says, I know this gives
away my age, but John Madden, Howard Cosell, Vin Scully,
and Bob Buker. Bob Buker, we just lost Bob Buker,

(37:57):
I mean, what a what a fantastic I mean, and
his status elevated because he was in a movie playing
a fictional character, which is kind of the caricature of
who he was as a broadcaster in Major League Baseball.
But really awesome stuff from Bob Euker. That's a great
pull from Don. Pat says Howard Cosell, John Madden, Vin Scully,

(38:18):
and Keith Jackson. I'm sensing a bit of a pattern
here in John Madden, Howard Cosell, Vin Scully landing on
a lot of lists here, Dave says, John Madden, Marv Albert,
Al Michaels and from the Wayback Machine, Howard go sal
Mike says Lyle Brimser. We've been getting there early years.
Terry Bradshaw, remember Terry Bradshaw called some games back in

(38:39):
the eighties and then moved into the studio and became
an analyst, and he kind of he was really the
cornerstone of that Fox like when Fox got the NFL.
If you watched the first few Fox, you know NFL
today on Fox or NFL and Fox opens. He's really
the backbone of that. And he helped people like Jimmy

(39:00):
Johnson who had just left coaching, get kind of into
the media mix. And Howie Long that was the ogs
man like you had James Brown and eventually Kurt Menefee,
Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and Jimmy Johnson. Excellent studio show.
And obviously they've added people like Michael Strahand and on

(39:22):
and off Rob Gonkowski and put some youth in there too,
But that whole unit was intact for a while and
James Brown went back to CBS eventually, but really cool
stuff got a lot more of these coming in. If
you got a Friday four your favorite sports media personalities
phone us four all two five five eight eleven ten.
Four two five five eight to eleven ten. The show
rolls on on news radio eleven ten. KFAB. All right,

(39:44):
we were doing Friday four and get that keyword in,
by the way, fun f you win. We did get
a winner earlier today and is her name. She is
scheduled to be on with us later on tonight, this evening,
this afternoon, she'll be joining the show in our last segment,
the plane at least our Friday four in the time being, though,
is your favorite sports media personalities?

Speaker 4 (40:05):
For me?

Speaker 1 (40:06):
My list I had John Madden, Marlv Albert, Brent Musburger,
and Bill Simmons was kind of my wild card spot
and Matt you agreed with me on John Madden and
Marv Albert. But who are your other two?

Speaker 5 (40:17):
My other two were Pat summer All and Keith Jackson.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
There you go, all right, that's what we're doing today.
Four two five five eight eleven ten is the number.
You can also email me Emmerie atkfab dot com. Richard's
on the phone line, Richard, welcome in what do you
got for me today, Emery.

Speaker 7 (40:32):
On my top four list are stick by Chel.

Speaker 6 (40:35):
Nice One, Marv Albert, Ronald Reagan, and Lyle Bremsler.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
You know the Ronald Reagan. There's a sports personality technically,
go back to his time at our sister station in
Des Moines at ten forty who that's kind of how
his media career got started back in the thirties. That's
pretty good stuff there, Richard. And of course Lyle Brimser
is on a ton of people's list, a local legend there.
So great list, Richard, thanks for calling in. Welcome all right,

(41:01):
emails galore here, Let's try to knock out a few
of these. Let's go to Keith who said Ron Franklin.
How about that Ron Franklin. I haven't heard that name
in a while, but he had some very very unique
and I thought great play by play voice for college
sports back in the day on ESPN Mike Godfried, ESPN's

(41:22):
big college football game duo from the nineties and early
two thousands. They did plenty of Husker in Colorado games. Yeah,
that's that's great. That's a good poll there, Ryan says,
Kirk Herbstreet. Jim Nantz of course al Michaels and Kevin Kugler,
And I think Kevin Kugler is he local as well?

Speaker 5 (41:39):
He is he Yep, he is a local guy from
this area and calls a lot of really big games
and a lot of really big moments.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Yeah, he's a guy for ESPN these days. Eh. And
then honorable mentions Joel Klatt, Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson, Joe
Buck and Brent Musburger. Wow what a list that is,
my goodness, Chuck says, al Ols, Jim Nantz, Kirk kerb
Street and Gus Johnson. He mentioned kirkirb Street and his
love for dogs. Yeah, it makes me a big Kirk
kerb Street fan. Is his love for his Golden Retrievers.

(42:09):
Gus Johnson, we were talking off the air. Gus Johnson,
I think ten years ago would have probably been on
a lot more people's list of this. How do you
feel about Gus? Because Gus was I think he came
out of nowhere in the mid two thousands for a
lot of people because all of a sudden he was
just so loud and energetic and nobody called games like that.
But then I think he jumped the shark a little bit,

(42:30):
especially when he left CBS and went to Fox and
started doing their big college football games, and he just
felt a little bit more forced, a little bit more
of a gimmick. They had him do some soccer when
they got like a Champions League soccer on Fox. He
called some of those games or the FA Cup, and
that was just a horrible fit for him. I don't know,

(42:52):
I feel eighteen year old Emory loved Gus Johnson. Thirty
four year old Emery is like, I don't. I'm not
a big There's about ten guys I'd rather hear call
a game than him. Is that fair.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
There's this bit, this sketch on Saturday Night Live. I
feel like that kind of sums up Gus. It's Will
Ferrell and he's doing a visit to the news update desk,
and he's playing some character that cannot talk in a
regular voice. He yells all the time, and of course
it's Will Ferrell, so it's hilarious because when he yells,
it's funny, and he was every little moment that you

(43:24):
could think of that would be awkward to be yelling for.
They were playing up on that joke. I feel like
that's Gus Johnson to me, He's perfectly placed on a
Thursday mid morning when a fifteen seed from the Missouri
Valley is pulling off an upset against the two seed,
and then I'm Gus Johnson all day. But like every
single game, not everything is such a big deal. And

(43:45):
I think it's again a lot of these people who
make these lists, like Keith Jackson, some of the greats,
and some of the greats in today's game as well.
Many greats they know. Mike Triico's one, that's one who
he man. He knows how to nail the moment. He
knows how to make the moment intense, and he doesn't
have to yell about it all the time, but sometimes
he does.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Iron Eagle, Kevin Harlan. They also just kind of have
an excitement to their voice without having to get so
loud about it. Yeah, and then they know when it's
time to get crazy. I love that analogy, and now
that you mention it. Marv Albert a guy who knew
when to get really excited, but even his regular voice
kind of felt like a big deal. Keith Jackson, same,
Pat some Aer all same.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Now.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
He never got loud and yelled, but neither did Keith
and those are like the legends of the game. They
let the picture speak as loudly as they did. There's
something to be said for that. Gus is the opposite.
Gus is a volume ten seventy percent of the time.
Not necessary. But I don't know. Polarizing guy, that's for sure.
Eric's on our phone line at four h two, five

(44:44):
to five, eight to eleven ten. Eric, which you.

Speaker 7 (44:46):
Think, Hey, well, of course Lyle Bremser Hm, Jerry Saddelmeyer.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
Who Jim Jim Rose?

Speaker 7 (44:54):
All right, and there was a local guy that when
UNO had a football team named Joe Patrick the play
by play.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
On the radio.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Well, there you go. How about a list all locals?
I love it, Eric, thanks for calling in today.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
All right.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Brian's on the line too, four two, five, five, eight
eleven ten. What's Brian have to say about this?

Speaker 4 (45:15):
What about my guy Jason Bennetti.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Now see there's a guy that's a guy right there.
Love Jason Bennetti.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Uh White, awesome.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yeah, this this is a point of contention for me
because that was the only redeeming part of that team
for you know, uh, you know, three or four years
there they were really good. But then when they started
to stink. They somehow they let that relationship fall apart.
Now he's the Tigers guy and he's a pro. He's
so good, Jason Bennetti, and I miss him for the

(45:48):
White Sox, but I'd rather if I was him, I'd
rather be in Detroit right now calling Tigers games and
White Sox games too. So good for him, ye stuff, Yeah,
that's for sure. And he can do every sport like
cause he mentioned baseball football. He does a lot of basketball.
It's a good point, Brian, Hey, I appreciate the call, buddy,
Thanks for listening to us. All Right, we'll take a break.

(46:08):
I got a ton of emails that I'm still trying
to work through as more and more of them are
coming in. You can also call in with your favorite
sports media personalities at four h two, five, five, eight
to eleven ten. Show rolls on Next on News Radio
eleven ten Kfab, Emery Songer on News Radio eleven ten KFAB.
A lot of emails to get to, but the phone
lines are also open, and Ben is there. Ben, welcome
to our show today. What you got as far as

(46:30):
this conversation goes?

Speaker 4 (46:32):
Hi My favorites for college football for Keith Jackson, and
this name hasn't been mentioned yet. Don Cricky. He was
on NBC.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Yeah, Don Cricky, that was an excellent play by play
guy there eighties especially. I think of Kricky when I
think of John Elway and the Drive. I think of
Kricky when it comes to even some of the Super Bowls.
He called some super Bowls back in the eighties and
nineties too, So yeah, that's a great name. Great poll.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
And for pro football, Monday Night Football, Yeah, my favorites
for Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell, and Don Meredith.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
G the ogs were Hey, we want to talk about chemistry.
They got that right. And you know, Monday Night Football
hasn't been the same for some time, really since it
moved to ESPN in a lot of ways. But back
in the day when it was a huge deal to
have that Monday night game, they nailed that three man booth.
That was amazing what they do.

Speaker 4 (47:31):
I loved him. And Keith Jackson he was on the
first year in nineteen seventy. Yeah, he was there instead
of Frank Gifford.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
Yeah, well, Frank, he morphed into an excellent play by
play guy too. For a former player, not an easy
thing to do. He and Pat summer Ale, and then
of course Howard Cosell wasn't a former player, but he
was just a guy that was fun to listen to
in the booths. You just never knew what that guy
was going to say. So that's really awesome. Man, You
got anything else for me today?

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Nope, those are I just listened to a lot of
football back in the day, not much basketball.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Yeah, that's awesome though, Man, I appreciate the call. Thanks
so much for listening to us. Thanks all right to
the emails. Got plenty of these that I still am
trying to, uh, kind of machety my way through here,
got Kyle says, Lyle Brimser, Bob Buker. But as Harry
Doyle in Major League, A little caveat there. Harry Doyle
was the announcer just a bit outside John Madden and

(48:27):
Harry Carey. John Madden and Harry Carey, are they similar?

Speaker 5 (48:31):
Well, I have to define your terms. I could see
how you could make some comparison.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
But John madn knew football, and you felt like you
were learning football listening to John Madden and Harry Carey
didn't have that feeling. Harry was like you're hanging out
with the guy having beers at the ballpark with.

Speaker 5 (48:46):
John Madden was a brilliant entry level football expert in
the sense that he was an expert. He knew every
single thing about football, and he was so good at
teaching it to someone who maybe didn't. He was so
good at breaking it down in a like receivable. What's
the word I'm trying to think of.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Yeah, I'm onner, I'm with you. You like, like, no
matter if you were a student of the game, like
you know you and I would like to be, and
we watch a ton of football, or it's you know,
somebody like my mom who probably would never sit down
and watch a whole game, but she could know what
happened in the gravity of what just happened in a
play by just watching it. And the way that there was,

(49:26):
you know, like a the way that there was some
sort of explanation in the way that he had the
enthusiasm about it. That to me was what made him special,
right because he always felt like whenever he'd see anything
that was exciting, he made you feel that you felt
excited to be there too, and he just loved being there.
So that's good stuff. Michael says Greg Sharp. Oh okay, well,

(49:53):
Greg is a great career. Brian says Jack Buck, Vince Scully,
Harry Kerry, and Dick vital Where does Dick Vitale fall
on this list?

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Is he?

Speaker 6 (50:02):
Is?

Speaker 1 (50:02):
He a guy that you can compare it to Madden
like one for one almost. He's one of those.

Speaker 5 (50:06):
He's one of those where you know, he becomes he's
like nickel you know what, he's nickelback Dick Vitel because
he's one of those. He got so big that he
almost became to you as a younger person's term. He
became a meme of himself, but he embraced it, you know.
And I I love Dick Vitell. I enjoy when I
think of Dick vital, I think of my my childhood.
I think of all those fun Duke teams that always

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be broadcasted.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Games.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah, it's so animated, so over the top,
but so fun. And yeah absolutely, I mean he's one
of the greats.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
And then Karen says Lyle Brims or Greg Sharp, Al
Michaels and John Madden. There's a great mix of local
and national icons. There got more of these that I'll
get to and This is great stuff. Really appreciate everybody
for taking part. So stay with us Friday four rolls
on Emory Sunger with you on news Radio eleven ten, KFA.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
B and R.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
He's done here.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Back to the phone line where we are looking to
continue our conversation on a Friday four Friday four Today
Favorite sports media personalities. Larry's on the line. Larry, welcome
into the show today. What's on your mind?

Speaker 8 (51:15):
Well, if you're old enough, you remember that baseball was
once brought to this by fall staff beer and the
two announcers were Dizzy Dean and pee Wee Reese in
newser games. Can your listeners tell me where they came from,
which teams they played for?

Speaker 1 (51:30):
I can try to. I can try here. Pee Wee
Reese was a Dodger, wasn't he?

Speaker 8 (51:35):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (51:35):
He was, okay? And then Dizzy he played for Saint Louis,
the Cardinals.

Speaker 8 (51:38):
The guest house king very good man.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
All right, Hey, I know my baseball there, Larry, you
Gil thanks for taking the call. Absolutely, Larry, appreciate it.
Thank you so much. Yeah, impressed.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
I'm always impressed with your baseball knowledge, especially like old time,
the old school baseball knowledge mean somebody's names.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Cannon ball, Ticcom's wrapped the wrong I knew you do it.
I knew you do it today, I know, but you
love saying it so much.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
But all these names, all these old names, I thought
I knew a bunch of them, and then you pull
these out that I'm just thinking, like, man, I don't
know as much about baseball as I thought I will
all have to say about.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Lot baseball, football, basketball. I mean, we could sit here
and name nineties shooting guards. Ready say go, ninety shooting guards. Well,
John Starks is where that starts. Okay, I was gonna
go with Alan Houston. Actually, oh look at that.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
Okay, I like that. Tom Googliato. Is he a shooting guard?

Speaker 1 (52:32):
No, that's a power forward? Okay, I got it wrong.
It's a good name. Game over now. Reggie Miller, Oh,
Reggie Miller is a good one. I mean, Michael Jordan's
the obvious slam dunk here. Literally, go ahead, and you
know that ninety shooting guards. Uh, who's the guy I'm
trying to think of? Ellis Dale?

Speaker 5 (52:47):
Ellis Well, then you, but then he also had Elliott
Johnson from the Spurs.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Alfonso Alfonso, Oh that.

Speaker 5 (52:55):
Lifts Shrimp's order that in long John Silver's and watch
him play from the basketball Seattle SuperSonics.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Yeah, Devila Shremp. Yeah, that's a name. That's fun to say.
That's that guy was a Ford though. I'm talking shooting guards.
What are you doing here? I like the big guy,
Hersey Hawkins, Steve Smith, Steve Smith. There we go. How
about three d Dennis Scott? Oh there it is Ooh,
miss free throw Dennis Scott, Nick Anderson, you want to
talk about missing free throws? Nick Anderson. There's a good

(53:23):
ninety shooting guard. We could do this all day.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
Penny Anferty or a Penny Anfrety, Penny Hardway. Yeah, I
mean he was kind of like he was on the
he was on the he's a point guard, but really
was he.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Com he combo? I'd give you a combo. Mitch Richmond,
there's a nineties shooting guard for there? It is all right? Anyway,
we could do that all day. Had Jeremy send in
this for his Friday for Bob Buker, Al Michaels, John Madden,
and Ronald Reagan. You can't forget Ronald Reagan did some
sports broadcasting at our Citus station in Des Moines for
ten forty w h O. But that's kind of a no.

(53:57):
He was broadcasting the game.

Speaker 5 (54:00):
Did all of these people actively listen to Ronnie Reagan?

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Did I listen to Chris Shankle in the nineteen sixties
called bowling? No? No, But he wasn't on your list.
But that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (54:10):
All these people putting him on the list for political reasons,
they never heard him broadcast the game.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Ah, come on, no, no, come on here. Chuck tried
to squeeze in a second list on me. He said,
Al McGuire, WHOA.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
It'd be like if I was super liberal and I
put Keith Oberman on my li Oh again, all for
a lot of reasons. Okay, he and Rosie O'Donnell can
go live on the moon for all I care. But
I'm just saying they're kind of cheating, That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
Dick Vital, Dandy, Don Meredith and John Matt and Chuck
trying to squeeze in a second list on me. What
are you doing here? Randy says, great show, great topic.
My top has been mentioned, but won't repeat. I'm adding
Kevin Kugler, great local guy, made it big. I like
his style. I like Kevin Kugler. He's really clever too.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
Some of the biggest moments, he always seems to come
up with the most clever things to say that really
wrap the whole moment together.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Yeah, he's good. He's good. Other three John madd and
Marv Albert and Rowdy Gains. Rowdy Gains. Is he like
a wrestling guy. No, he's the voice of you as swimming.
Is the crazy guy who does the color commentary for
the Olympics and the swimming Oh you know, Lee's acts
making up some ground and he's great, like into the
science of swimming. He's a great color like that's the

(55:18):
Gus Johnson energy, except it's in the right space. This
is a guy who's calling swimming races as the color commentator.
He's great, awesome.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
I want to be the color commentator or the play
by play for Olympic run walking.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Why don't I get to do that? You are awful?
Corley says, I only got one for you. Jim Rose
just getting lol. Okay, what about Jim Nantz And Kevin Harlan.
Kevin Harland needs more love here. I ain't Eagle and
Kevin Harlan. Those two guys are amazing right now, They're amazing,
and Eagles getting in Cal the final four of these days.
He's perfect. He does it so well. He's a great

(55:52):
basketball guy. Good at football too. Amazing basketball guy. Kevin
Harland's saying, excellent basketball guy. Really good football guy too.
Peter says, Mike Shannon, there's a great Saint Louis Cardinal,
Joe Garing, Giola, Joe Buck and Jack Buck. A lot
of baseball in there. Harry says, Guerrilla mon Soon, there's

(56:12):
your wrestling guerrilla monson the Pat Summer. All of World
Wrestling Federation broadcasting love it. Joe Rogan, he does great work.
Joe Rogan does great work with the UFC. Keith Jackson
and then Harry Doyle hah, fictional Guerrilla mon Soon. How
about that? Him and Bobby Heenan, what they were the
Pat Summer all and John Padden of nineteen eighties World

(56:34):
Wrestling Federation commentary. Great stuff online. Jeremy, Oh, Jeremy called in.
We read his email. What's up, Jeremy, Hey, I was just.

Speaker 7 (56:45):
Going to defend myself a little bit on Ronald Reagan.
A lot of people forget that he called the eight
the beginning of the eighty nine Major League Baseball All
Star Game, bo Jackson hitting the ball out of the park.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Oh so, Matt Matt rolled his eyes. You don't have
to prove anything to me, Jeremy Matt, Matt's Matt's a
I don't think he wants to count that. No, it's
not that I'm not counting it.

Speaker 5 (57:08):
I think that, once again, the purity of the list
is in question if you're putting somebody in. Oh he
called part of an inning for this one game where
it was kind of a gimmick game anyways, and it
was only a couple at bats.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Give me a break out of here, like I didn't. Okay,
go ahead, go back.

Speaker 7 (57:26):
And listen to Reagan's broadcast the longest pitch ever, and
that one will show you how good a broadcast or
he really was.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Now, see, Matt, you just gotta you gotta lean into this.
Jeremy's onto something with Ronald Reagan. I don't you don't
have to defend nothing to meet me. I'm like, yeah,
I'm in. You're right.

Speaker 5 (57:47):
You know the fact that he didn't replace John Madden
and John maybe John Madden should have been the president
why don't we just flip them and then the world
would have been in a better place overall.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
About that, About that our national bird is a Herd
ducket and nobody even knows what that is.

Speaker 5 (58:02):
It sounds like a fun world to live in. Yeah,
the national debt would have would have quadrupled every single day,
but we would have been having fun.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
We would have had a lot of fun. Yeah, all right, Darren,
thanks for the list. Oh gosh, oh man, I'm gonna
power through these last emails and then we're gonna wrap
this thing up. Chuck Kent, Pavelka, Hey, fire up Kent, Pavelka.
He messaged me, by the way, shout out to Kent.
Get nice things to say. Good to know you Kent't
Kevin Kugler of course? Nick Bay.

Speaker 5 (58:32):
Okay, how's it spelled B A G. That's Nick Baugh.
He also is another local guy. He played for Creighton.
He was a three specialist. Actually set a record here
locally for the most free throws made consecutively. Nice and
he and Kevin Kugler are teamed up for a lot
of calls. And he is great. He is he dives
deep in an analyst and he's also like one of
the funniest people on the radio.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
You all over here, and then in Chuck finished up
with Gary Sharp as well. Rob said, Jim and Gary,
has anyone mentioned Gus Johnson yet? Yes? And we don't
need to rehash Gus Richard, the legendary Denny Matthews, Okay,
Harry Carry, John Madden and Nebraska High school legend double
j Okay. Corley sent me a bunch of other things.

(59:15):
I loved, Jim Lampley and boxing Dandy, Don Meredith and
Colt McCoy. Throw up what because Colt's doing you know,
like color commentary for some college bat football games. Now
I didn't know, yeah, but I'm guessing. Corley said this
sarcastically with a throw up beam. Uh yeah, So there
you go. What a list? Hey, can we get it
a Lonaldo applause? It was really good for everybody there.

(59:36):
That was a lot of fun.