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00:00Fan has a favorite football moment and each moment comes with its own unique
00:08soundtrack it's a voice that turns that moment into history
00:18when I call a game you can't put a price tag on that that's when the great ones
00:25step up that's when the great ones make the hair stand up on the back of our
00:28net it could be for a delivery a stretch tradition a minimum of words or a
00:38maximum of emotion that put these football voices on our all-time list you
00:47have to have the moments meet up with your ability and when that happens then
00:52you know you're destined for greatness roll them
00:55the number 10 football voice of all time frank gets around his 10th from the top spot
01:02oh come on quite frank bird quite frank i wouldn't put him on the top 10 of all time though
01:06looking for the bomb to tony hill and he'll be there this was the guy that i thought was the
01:11voice of football growing up i never really understood how he got there to be honest with
01:16you this is like a 15-round heavyweight fight he was a one-time broadcaster he never went up and
01:23never went down petty this is frank gibber here three river stadium pittsburgh pennsylvania until
01:28you've walked a mile in that booth then honestly shut up
01:35he's been doing games for 100 years i mean he was the consistent guy through monday night football
01:40he got too low
01:44our number
01:46career with the giants but when he joined don meredith and howard cosell at monday night football
01:53gifford became a media superstar
01:59they needed someone larger than life frank brought that frank was more than just another announcer little
02:06did they know they were going to get three guys larger than life with meredith gifford and of course
02:10with cosell you gotta go to the bathroom so bad well go ahead amongst the hijinks that was going on
02:15it was always that one calming professional voice and that was frank gifford now you get a purple
02:21heart out of you be right back and he was the sanity in the blue what about the ifds and
02:26the hand
02:26lights whatever they paid him was only half of it was to call the game the other half must have
02:30been
02:30to keep those other two in control exactly the sequence of what the hell's happening
02:36following a fumble he scored on the fifth play gifford's 27 seasons as the anchor of a revolving
02:42cast of partners put him on our all-time list he's got to be on the list because he spent
02:48so many
02:48years on monday night football but he was kind of the foil he was this great guy
02:52bosco's to washington and he can pass he has a man wide open 54 yard baltimore touchdown silky smooth
02:57knew the game balancing act this good-looking face of the nfl
03:06such a very good analytical guy showed you what it was like under the hood
03:17frank gifford in that monday night booth was like uh david crosby and csn it doesn't hit you
03:23over the head how good he is but if you take him away it's all messed up the harmony doesn't
03:27work
03:28this is frank gifford along with historian howard gussell vocalist don merida
03:32saying so long from rich stadium buffalo new york coming up next what so scott farrell wasn't lying
03:40with his impressive the number nine football voice of all time
03:46verne lundquist he definitely belongs in the top 10 maybe a little higher than nine
03:52is that a guy that people can identify with automatically maybe not good afternoon everybody
03:57i'm verne lundquist one of the best sports voices of any sport you've ever had this is a big game
04:03is the kind of guy who could probably announce a checkers match and i would be interested
04:06cunningham in the corner man open caught touchdown chris carter this ain't no disguise
04:13is he on this list i know him from figure skating you can't have a guy teamed with dick button
04:18in the
04:19top 10 list of nfl voices we can't see anything beyond people now while he may have done figure
04:28skating and football lundquist is still the only tv broadcaster to call an invisible
04:34game the fog bowl in 1988 the forecast could have called for partly cloudy but they didn't tell us
04:40which part of which cloud absolutely impossible you're asked when you are a broadcaster to report
04:47on what you see and that thick level of bond you are no longer a broadcaster and he'll throw not
04:53sure whether it was caught or not honestly i don't know how he did it sanders goes right and disappears
04:58in the haze we may be going to another dimension now this dallas cowboy football team a team in
05:06transition before he went national lundquist was the voice of america's team from 1972 to 84.
05:13i like verne's passion you could hear it come and then it build to a crescendo and it'd spill out
05:19danny back to throw into the end zone
05:24yes sir it's football it's fun
05:27here he goes that's who he's right on the way they go
05:31to the 30 to the 40
05:35he's got two men to be to the 40 to the 30 to the 20
05:47some of his football moments are are priceless and i'm sure the jackie smith call is probably what
05:55a lot of people roll with it's perfect it's all condensed in that one moment with the cowboys
06:01struggling to catch the steelers in super bowl 13 our number nine voice made a call that will be
06:08remembered forever
06:14jackie smith all by himself oh bless his heart he's got to be the sickest man in america
06:20bless his heart he's got to be the sickest man in america verne switched right to the emotional
06:27aspect of you know oh bless his heart that's classic it knocks it up a letter grade just to have
06:33verne's voice there he is telling you what's on his mind and that's what i love about verne
06:38the number eight football voice of all time harry calice too too low harry should not be number eight
06:46i have no idea how you could possibly put harry down at number eight he's got to be up in
06:50the top
06:51three or four eight you gotta be kidding me you gotta be kidding me that's that's terrible
06:58harry calice uh is perfect right at number eight because he's thought of his baseball answer first
07:04he's defined as a philly's broadcaster but he could do anything that voice was good across all time
07:08zones it soon became obvious a more appropriate billing would have been the doomsday defense versus
07:14the big apple turnover people have to understand that he was very versatile he's the greatest sports
07:20voice ever he's got to be higher on the list he was a whole play-by-play guy in terms
07:23of football
07:23on the radio throws to the end zone touchdown jeremy shockey he had a gift for being able to
07:32emphasize the right words and to understand what was a big moment that kind of came innately to him
07:40harry calice isn't on this list for his game day skills he earned his place for his abilities as a
07:45host and narrator i started doing bits and pieces as early as 75 in the early years i did the
07:52nfl game of
07:53the week on the next play bradshaw connected for his fourth touchdown pass of the game this one to
07:59lynn swan and super bowl 13 was just about over the halloween shows with steve were embarrassing
08:08steve sable would come up with some sort of crazy wacky stuff we always had a lot of fun
08:18our first story is about an offensive lineman who played for the 49ers in the 50s
08:24he didn't drink gatorade he drank blood callus became the voice of inside the nfl with nfl films
08:31from the show's beginning in 1977 until his passing in 2009 he had a texture and he had a way
08:38of just
08:38delivering words and turning a phrase joe montana and dwight clark ended the masterful drive in the
08:45spectacular fashion if you gave me the same script that you gave harry callus you're not getting
08:52what harry could bring
08:55to put a person on this list you have to be able to instantly identify who they are harry
09:02callus was one of those guys where it was no doubt i remember from the puppy bowl
09:05moose makes a run for the end zone
09:10it's a touchdown
09:12i'm gone the crowd is going wild he was doing the puppy bowl because on my head that's harry
09:18that's harry audio velvet that's exactly what it was that's how harry sounded over the last few
09:25seasons colts plus chargers always equals drama it was like a comfortable old leather chair
09:31you slide into i don't know how it happened but it was just a magical thing eli manning defied his
09:37critics and defied all logic by producing a play for the ages you're talking about a voice that is a
09:45soundtrack to nfl football for so many fans growing up especially for younger people new generation harry
09:53callus is the voice of the nfl there are a lot of voices of football tonight i'm just one of
09:59them
10:00coming up did the voice of there's no disguising the fact that many local broadcasters love their
10:06team but one homer who didn't make our countdown is the 49ers joe starkey
10:14if you want to hear him at his yay we won best look at the packard niner
10:20playoff game easy to tell whose side he was calling the game for
10:24he caught it he caught it he caught it despite deep south florida roots the late jim mandich failed
10:33to make our list i have article one bill belichick marino is back baby
10:47whoever's voting on that uh list of top ten should have their heads examined maybe so but our number
10:53seven voice takes homerism to a whole new level number seven football voice of all time
11:03narrowly he's a homer come on can i give it to you straight he's a homer you can feel the
11:08excitement
11:08it is absolutely electric even if you're a homer i think that if you're good at what you do you're
11:14knowledgeable of the game i think there's nothing wrong with it
11:21he works for the team if you are looking for him to rip the organization apart that's like you going
11:28to work tomorrow and telling your boss that your organization sucks
11:33all do not realize that he wants the eagles to win i take it personally i want the rinskins to
11:38lose
11:38every game forever when you're watching a game you're up when he's up and you can hear that in
11:43his voice let's put the single set back thanks for handoff comes up the middle he's at the 20
11:48gets back to 15 to the 10 to the five touchdown when it's not going well you can hear that
11:55in
11:55merrill's voice too he is going deep and it is intercepted in the end zone oh what a way to
12:02end the
12:02season merrill reese is what an eagles fan expects to hear when they hear an eagles game
12:07eagles will win and if they stop the cowboys here they give it to smoke he doesn't make it
12:11they're going to call the two-minute board and they're going to say it was no play
12:21merrill reese is so great at his job and so synonymous with the eagles i remember when the
12:27eagles won their first super bowl in february 2018 i didn't look up the game i didn't look up stats
12:34i
12:34didn't look up anything else i looked at his radio call
12:40and this time i can't take it away from the eagles
12:46since 1977 our number for the eagles greatest moments into some of the nfl's most enduring calls
12:53under 30 seconds left of the game his call of miracle of the meadowlands too was very very
13:11compelling jackson takes it at the 35 humbles it picks it up looks for running room you can hear the
13:16level of excitement as it builds he's at the 40. he's at the 45. midfield he's at the 40. he's
13:23gonna
13:23go to sean jackson i don't care if he jumps he's running around and he's in the end zone
13:30and there's no time and the eagles win
13:36this is merrill reese won his place on our list by virtue of the sheer number of people that try
13:46and imitate him in philadelphia everybody thinks they can do a merrill reese and after that everyone
13:51this is merrill reese along with mike quick hi this is merrill reese okay i listen to him all the
13:57time
13:58but i really can do it if you grew up in philadelphia as an eagles fan at one time in
14:02your life
14:02you said that's good in a merrill reese voice
14:25he had that raspy raider type voice from the rosebow stadium in pasadena california this is bill
14:34king ready to bring you super bowl 11. that voice epitomizes what the raiders are all about
14:39he looked like he came from central casting just to be the raiders play-by-play guy he looked a
14:44little
14:44renegade-ish he looked a little raider-ish he looked like he might have been a drinking buddy of al
14:49davis
14:49once upon a time the raiders of the 70s may not have been the raiders without our number six football
14:57voice home of the oakland raiders where success has been theirs his voice quality and his delivery
15:03was kind of like right there in your face just like the raiders of that year were like right there
15:08in your face
15:15he had that classic voice they just seemed to give the raiders even more swagger i thought it was a
15:20perfect match of voice and team and era six way too low way too low number six on the list
15:31i think
15:31i don't know too much too many guys that were better than him he made it come alive
15:44the wonder that a fan feels when you're just so happy that's what it feels like it feels like
15:49george blanda has been elected king of the world to come up with praises and statements like he did
15:54that shows the genius of this man
16:02you don't see that today guys coming up with those
16:05those kinds of descriptions when it comes to play
16:10thank you our number six voice called some of the nfl's most historic moments
16:20you couldn't ask for better games in the raiders game we always came what was one in the last couple
16:24minutes it looked like he might have been lobbing it into the proudest land for
16:29caniami but no davis stuck there first
16:36king's trademark catchphrase warrants his place on our countdown
16:45holy toledo
16:48holy toledo
16:49touchdown raiders holy toledo
16:53don't even just get you and then let you down i feel if i have any strengths it's probably that
16:58i
16:58can extract the excitement and the drama from the game as it evolves
17:10he's smiling like a slip watermelon he was he had that big red head and there he was smiling like
17:16crazy that's on the spot description and only bill king could do that
17:23history
17:26the holy roller play i could watch it every day for the rest of my life and listen to bill
17:31king
17:43you're incredulous because nothing like that has ever existed before and yet bill king is capturing it
17:50in its essence while conveying that utter surprise and wonder the ultimate right at the start on the
17:58most seening unbelievable absolutely impossible dream of a plane madden's on the field he wants to
18:05know if it's real madden is on the field he wants to know if it's real get your big butt
18:10out of here he
18:11does they said yes get your big butt out of here he does madden getting his big butt out of
18:17there
18:18whatever effort he tells him to might have been as extraordinary as the play being allowed in
18:23the first place this one will be relived forever
18:26up next which football voice is the number five football voice of all time al michaels yes
18:34al michaels wow he's at five he did is this how you normally put in the good nfl songs music
18:38i think al michaels might have to be higher on the list everybody came
18:43guys a really good announcer for some reason he grades on me in the most
18:47astonishing upset the giants ended new england's bid for a perfect season
18:52the consummate play-by-play guy can do all sports but clearly football is his forte
18:58all the ad-libs are here by the way great announcer great voice knows what he's doing but i don't
19:03think
19:03of football anything about al michaels manning under pressure it's shuggled it's bobbled and it's caught
19:09everybody's got certain styles that they like and they dislike al figures out a way in his style to cut
19:15down the middle of that manning looking for the end zone he's in there touchdown let's put it this
19:20way how many people have you run into over the years i can't stand al michaels it doesn't happen
19:33in 1986 al michaels joined the legendary monday night football broadcast the monday night was going
19:40into its 17th season and the show was spraying a little bit in terms of the ratings one of my
19:46good
19:46friends called me up and he said congratulations you got invited to the orgy after the girls went home
19:52because it looked like this was going to be the end of monday night football and i was there to
19:57carry it hail mary is the prayer answered no dallas win and away we went and i got 20 years
20:05out of it
20:05and i got to tell you phenomenal
20:07it was an excitement that surrounded that show unlike anything else i've ever done in television
20:17but there goes bow and nobody catches bow touchdown you knew there was a certain importance to the
20:24game if al michaels was there as usual the jets are going to come from behind you we'll see
20:30and it is juggled and caught and for those jets fans who left the stadium about an hour ago and
20:36we've got news for you
21:01i have to talk about he did what
21:04oh yeah he commented why right amersons throughout these games and not take your attention off the
21:09game for the giants some of them refusing to look it's almost like he saw a cake of the game
21:14and was
21:16able to go and write what he wanted to say and said okay let's put it on air scott norwood
21:19not a lot of
21:20range in this business you live for drama that's what you live for when the game gets hot i get
21:38hot with the game too you're looking for over time
21:51you did what and it is another manic monday you look at great defining moments in american sports history
22:00you can point to home i'm interested now to see who the top four guys are
22:05the number four football voice of all time myron coach i didn't
22:12know quite what i was listening to hey that saxophone bobby that voice that screeching voice
22:22he's a broadcaster how is it possible the strangest voice i've ever heard is on the radio
22:27we're gonna smack these guys in the face i have a voice like a tornado blowing through a junkyard
22:33that was a shovel pass here to me i know what my voice sounds like it ain't good but it
22:38is
22:38distinctive and i think it was a definite asset in building up my following here
22:46taxi you can chase this feeling he had the voice he was a pittsburger without the voice he may not
22:54have drawn the attention that he did he sounded like the sack of cats being beat with the baseball
23:05bat if you had a normal voice would people imitate remember hold him in such high reverence i'd rather
23:11doubt it myring cope who passed away in 2008 was known for his quirky personality
23:26he was more of a cartoonish figure than anything else get the halls with modell's meatballs
23:36i don't want boring announcers boring announcers are uh just as stale as old bread i like nfl
23:43announcers that bring it i want to be entertained and excited
23:52our number four football voice earned his ranking by being the king of the catchphrase he'll start
24:02the answer for the stearers touchdown if i couldn't think of somebody's name i'd say
24:12and that would give me time to think okul dokel but who the hell says okul dokel
24:20what does that even mean
24:23so why is cope number four on our list he's the only voice who created the symbol of a franchise
24:29the station he was working for said we need something a rallying crime and i said we'll
24:33tell people to bring black or gold or yellow cows we'll name it the terrible cow look at those
24:40terrible cows fight and our battle cry will be the terrible tower is poised to strike
24:46we got the terrible talk what more do we need the terrible talent imputes great strength to the
24:53stealers and if need be he poses mysterious difficulties for the enemy that's gotta be a
24:59huge part of his ranking this guy created this identity and that's part of myron club's legacy
25:06and what makes them one of the top announcers the terrible cow is poised to strike so are the stealers
25:12stealers are a religion myrons are creatures god is on the stealer's side in pittsburgh no one's bigger
25:19you bitch no one will ever match or equal what he brought he became uh an extension
25:27of the football team um and i think people loved him for that coming up he's not boring thank god
25:33the number three football voice of all time howard cosell howard cosell is at number three how do you
25:43permit this to go on this guy was the voice of all sports i hated this man
25:49uh i would love to see him involved in a 10-car pileup they can't lay a glove on me
25:54no one made
25:55the nfl bigger than howard this is howard cosell speaking of sports i'm and the fact that he's not
26:00remembered as the greatest voice of the league is sad because he is that's absurd all i gotta do is
26:05roll
26:06a tape howard had a monster ego i mean it was out of control come on we've got to get
26:11out of here we
26:12have animals here animals say fifty percent of people hated him fifty percent of the people liked
26:18them a hundred percent tuned in to hear him there is hank sartorially resplendent but agonized already
26:27love him or hate him sports broadcasting changed forever when our number three voice stepped into
26:33the monday night football booth in 1970 touchdown oj oj says the bills hope to take advantage of cult
26:41strength and sucker him by using trap plays on him all night well howard was controversy no matter where
26:47he was and now the interception again and that pass was unwisely thrown he was a birth of the attitude
26:54announcer it's just hard to believe that this kansas city team has been able to do so little
27:00okay because he came off as a know-it-all type of guy and i knew he didn't know anything
27:04about
27:05anything he's as fine a man as he is a ball player and he's all there is a both and
27:11that's oj simpson
27:12he brought a sense of journalistic integrity to what's going on like hey don't just close your
27:18eyes to what's happening here he was fearless uh to the point of antagonism what are we going to do
27:23bradshaw i went to do a monday night interview and he said i'm here with the number one flop in
27:29the
27:29national football league rookie quarterback terry bradshaw question number one terry yo
27:38nobody ever put the quietest on me or tried least of all pete rosell because if he did i'd expose
27:46him
27:46he was the one guy in that day and age who worked for the league who really pissed the league
27:51off i said
27:52the score is 12 to nothing and if you like field goals we've got a game he would say this
27:57is an
27:58absolutely awful game well we don't have to worry about a kansas city runaway he's telling people to
28:04believe their sets this game has died he would not try to sugarcoat it and that's what i liked about
28:09howard kosell
28:14arrogant pompous obnoxious vain verbose a show off there's no question that i'm all of those things
28:23in today's world everybody wants to be the way howard was controversial smart spoke articulately and
28:31sometimes spoke over our heads and that's been their won't so often tonight at a time when they do it
28:37their won't w-o-n-t oh howard you can't say howard kosell without imitating howard kosell
28:44never back down from a fright don't touch me i'll beat your brains out always had a problem with just
28:52about everyone and so irritable it's the jocks who played the game right they should be on the air
29:00right that's a disgraceful howard kosell will will always be legendary be always be number one to me
29:05sometimes to be hated is to be loved right didn't freud say like love and hate are the same emotion
29:11or
29:11something that's kind of kosell's genius to me they don't ask a lot of me do they this is ridiculous
29:18up next socks colorful commentary wasn't enough to get him on our list we're going to play the
29:24biggest football game in the history of western civilization or for this year anyway brad sham's
29:29love for his cowboys got no love from us as a broadcaster you're gonna get kind of caught up in
29:34the game too just as the players do dallas your cowboys are the champions
29:40it was a tough call to leave the buccaneers gene deckerhoff out of our countdown if the bucks
29:45are doing good you're gonna know it when you turn on the radio
29:53but he was tag-teamed by our choice for number two
29:57the number two football boys of all time the team of john madden and matt summerall
30:05hard to say summerall and madden aren't number one overrated
30:12and the bingos had a pack what a way to start a super bowl
30:16people might disagree with madden i fully agree with madden john madden i like john madden summerall
30:24no what's cincinnati wants to do it was magic you had a guy who played the game at a great
30:29level with
30:29a golden voice and anderson is gonna throw and uh ross touchdown he makes a little basketball
30:35twist there and pivot and boom the ball's there making he had the coach he was a great coach had
30:41the booms and the hands going all other stuff i think the fact that frank caliendo imitates john
30:46madden and turns him into a clown by imitating him exactly tells you all you need to know about john
30:54that some people say you know in there and they collide or something it's in the pillow that's what i
31:03say we're all with the gold standard of nfl broadcast teams all year you could see this
31:09match coming like the collision course john madden's the greatest color guy in history
31:13pat summerall is not the greatest play-by-play guy in history but he was perfect for men
31:19is hit by stuckey and dropped for a loss all the way back to the 11. how is he happy
31:25but this
31:25generation is all about john mac so some of these lists you guys put together you know you're more
31:31worried about having a 22 year old kid watch this show but his father and his grandfather he knows
31:37summerall wide open as solomon it should be summerall dot dot that with whoever anybody else
31:44you know madden and summerall um mashed potatoes and turkey that was you know salt and pepper peanut
31:50butter and jelly that's mick and keith right there that was the greatest partnership that combination
31:55set the bar for football they're ready again and they might be in venetarian's reign
32:01a day with tom brady just here gives me goosebumps play-by-play guy stole your traffic cop and set
32:08the
32:08analyst up to get it out of the park that all came from pat sommerall setting up john madden to
32:14hit it out of the park
32:22like a 70-yard touchdown and he sounds like he's watching somebody mow a lawn
32:32that was all about sacrifice pat just got out of the way allowing john to be john to be the
32:37truly defined where the color analyst was
32:45they had the great chemistry and because madden is he was just such a presence he overshadowed
32:52some of them they have no idea where we are who we are where we're coming from or who we're
32:56throwing
32:56to very interesting this might seem a little disrespect but i want pat sommerall by himself
33:03because really him by himself was so dramatic
33:12he didn't need everything else pat sommerall is the greatest minimalist that there is but just
33:19because he was a minimalist didn't mean that he wasn't great
33:21could be all over it is all over look at the things they're trying to do boom they're going
33:30deep up making big plays yeah i mean i'd go on and on and he would put two or three
33:36words and make
33:37sense out of everything that i just blabbered about he didn't cut it i mean these two guys are
33:42the voice of the nfl some of the biggest games of a whole era how does he feel john the
33:46greatest
33:47moment of your life you'll never forget it they can never take it away still to come with a voice
33:53that could have only come receivers left and right mccown takes the snap he steps up he's all by himself
34:01fires into the end zone
34:10the cardinals have knocked the vikings out of the playoffs
34:14that's greatness that's great commentary you have pat sommerall at two and paul allen's not even an
34:22honorable mention when he should be top five that's greatness he sounds like
34:28his family's lives depend on whether the team loses or wins and we're putting pat sommerall top two on
34:36the list
34:38exhibit b
34:41Brett Favre goes back to pass he pumps now he fires over the middle intercepted i can't believe what i'm
34:47seeing right now it was intercepted by tracy porter nearside to the 40 and john sullivan runs
34:53him down at the 47 yard line you've got to be kidding me i can't believe what i just saw
34:58looking at that play he should have just held on to a call he should have he could have easily
35:02gotten five or six yards if he would have just pulled that thing down and go forward why do you
35:08even ponder passing i mean you can take a knee and try a 56 yard field goal this is not
35:15detroit man this
35:16is the super bowl oh but but he's not he's not on the no but but he doesn't belong on
35:22the list because
35:23we want to put uh snooze fest guys who can't show any love for the game or emotion number two
35:32on
35:33list because they had an actual exciting guy next to him on commentary number one football voice of
35:41all time john facenda
35:48hello there i'm john facenda when you're alone in a class by yourself you're number one pro football
35:55the game for the ear and the eye a two and a half hour carnival of color sound and action
36:02it's
36:02really not even close i don't think all season the brown it starts with the whistle and ends with
36:08a gun like that's lived by the forward pass
36:15in the playoffs they died by it
36:21this guy's more important than hot dogs the only thing that i think that can even come close to john
36:26facenda is popcorn anybody who didn't make it number one would be a fool if it's a football show john
36:32for sender has to be number one
36:36one of the greatest things the sables ever did was find john facenda our number one football voice
36:42was a long time news anchor before he began his work with nfl films he was on television every night
36:49and he used to come to a little italian restaurant right next to my office and every time i walked
36:55in
36:55there there was john facenda at the bar i thought this was really gonna be a real tight game he
37:00just
37:01loved the idea of pro football quarterbacks and the two defensive lines what do you think i said john
37:06how would you like the narrator one of our films and he was ecstatic it was fiercely fought but frightfully
37:13blind let's take that over again and he became the voice of nfl films and it clicked boy did it
37:20click
37:22when i hear john facenda i get all pumped up right i'm ready to play that's the guy i think
37:28of first
37:31it starts with a whistle and ends with a gun 60 minutes of close in action from kickoff to touchdown
37:38this is pro football that voice that sound helps frame what you think the history of football is john
37:45facenda's voice became uh the identity of the national football league through nfl films john
37:52reached the hearts of millions with a voice that will forever be associated with the drama and excitement
37:58of pro football all season long their defense had won games by capitalizing on opponents mistakes the
38:07legends of the game truly came alive when their deeds were recounted by the legendary voice
38:14of john facenda just to hear john facenda say lombardi is enough lombardi
38:21a certain magic still lingers in the very name one of the most famous narrations ever read by our
38:27number one football board when he talks about the steel curtain and doomsday defense and the purple
38:34people ears and stuff like that that's amazing this was a poem the autumn wind
38:43autumn wind is a pirate blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering
38:52voicelessly his face is weather beaten he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head and a
39:03bristling black mustache the autumn wind is a radar pelaging just for fun you knock you around and upside down
39:20i used to always think how awesome would it be if you had john facenda for everything in life
39:28the 1970 baseball season for nfl films was one of frustration and hope even when you wake up in the
39:35morning and now ross tucker goes to get some breakfast do you fear the force of the wind the
39:42slash of the rain go face them and fight them be savage again if i die and go to heaven
39:49and god does
39:51not sound like john facenda i'm going to be really disappointed john facenda is first because he's the
39:57voice of god and god's got to be first he isn't even the lord he's bigger than darth vader the
40:02heck with
40:02luke and your father i am john facenda this one simple fact tipped the balance of the game in the
40:09cowboys favor it wasn't just that he had the voice of god it was that he had the voice of
40:16football
40:17winds whisper of high hopes victory is in the skies a season awaits with glory in our eyes he has
40:26changed the way people see football that's the nfl that's the voice of the nfl and the
40:32voice of the greatest sport there is find me somebody who truly loves the game of football
40:36that when they're flipping channels and they happen across john facenda that they don't stop and listen
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