Whoa Nelly and Thank God....Keith Jackson retires...

[The Consumate Showman]

Saw it reported this morning that college football announcer Keith Jackson is retiring for good.

HALLELUJAH AMEN!!!!!!!!! I can't stand that man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Harry Beanbag]

Again?

[Spray]

I always liked Keith Jackson. Many fond memories associated with his voice.

[OUMonster]

It's just one blow after another for USC.

[Sooner in Tampa]

Jackson called games a little too long. When he was younger, I just loved to listen to him call college football. His voice will always remind me of college football, just like when I hear Vin Scully...baseball comes to mind.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

Jackson called games a little too long. When he was younger, I just loved to listen to him call college football. His voice will always remind me of college football, just like when I hear Vin Scully...baseball comes to mind.

Vin Scully was masterful at calling a baseball game..

And Keith went wayyyy to longgg..I m very thankful he wont be doing the Oregon game now...Now if only Fouts would retire

[bri]

Wow...he must have REALLY taken those Pac-10 bowl losses to inferior Big 12 teams harder than we thought. :D

[stonecoldsoonerfan]

i guess the imminent fall of troy was more than he could bear to watch this season...:D

[Sooner in Tampa]

He is just going to ride off into the sunset and enjoy an ice cold Natty.

[caphorns]

Maybe the Pac 10 should investigate this sudden retirement. Very suspicious ;)

[mrowl]

huh, I thought he retired in '98 and Disney replaced him with a broken presidents hall robot.

[Desert Sapper]

huh, I thought he retired in '98 and Disney replaced him with a broken presidents hall robot.

Wasn't that John Madden? And I though it was his death that prompted Disney to replace him with the auto-animatronic doll embedded with WAV sounds from Madden NFL '98.

[badger]

it's about freakin' time. the networks never even gave us good pictures to fark :mad:

that is sooo unfair :mad:

but now that he is gone, happy retirement!

[Sooner in Tampa]

it's about freakin' time. the networks never even gave us good pictures to fark :mad:

that is sooo unfair :mad:

but now that he is gone, happy retirement!Here is one to work with

http://www.alangardner.com/images/305_kj_Keith_Barry_close.jpg

[Quack 10]

Well, it 'aint breaking my heart, but I give Keith credit, nobody pronounces the words "Alabama" and "Oklahoma" like Jackson.

[Sooner in Tampa]

"the wind comes sweeping down the plains"...

[HuskerPower]

I love the guy, but he is getting pretty bad. See my sig!

[soonerinabilene]

is he still gonna do inspirational gatorade commercials?

[walkoffsooner]

I think nellie was his wife

[okienole3]

He has retired before. Solid voice, I just don't like the words that come with it.

[Pieces Hit]

I will miss Brett Romar.

[All_Day_28]

Well, it 'aint breaking my heart, but I give Keith credit, nobody pronounces the words "Alabama" and "Oklahoma" like Jackson.
yeah and no one does a missouri and okla st. game and calls OSU the sooners the whole time the same way he could...http://www.youngmoneyweb.com/style_emoticons/default/rofl.gif

[Scott D]

yeah and no one does a missouri and okla st. game and calls OSU the sooners the whole time the same way he could...http://www.youngmoneyweb.com/style_emoticons/default/rofl.gif

heh that was osu @ ucla.

Now if we can only get Beano Cook and BBS to retire permanently.

[Sooner_Bob]

Maybe Al Michaels can get another job now.

[sooneron]

huh, I thought he retired in '98 and Disney replaced him with a broken presidents hall robot.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you.... post du jour!!!!:texan:

[jccouger]

He was one of my favorite announcers...

[All_Day_28]

heh that was osu @ ucla.

oops.. sorry..

[KStatePike]

I loved Keith Jackson. Despite the fact that he rarely got players names or penalties correct, he is one of my favorite announcers in all sports. I'm gonna miss him.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

I will miss Brett Romar.
Not if Chris Spielman does any of our games

[TheGodfather889]

I'm actually sad he's retiring. It was funny to listen to him screw everything up. No one butchered names of players,schools and plays better than the Great Keith Jackson!

[slickdawg]

Saw it reported this morning that college football announcer Keith Jackson is retiring for good.

HALLELUJAH AMEN!!!!!!!!! I can't stand that man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've heard him say "FUUUUUMMMMMMBULLLLLLL, AAAHHHHHHLLLLAAAAABAMA FOOTBALL" too many times in my life.

I guess since his homies at U$C are about to get nailed by the NCAA, he's
lost interest.

[TexasLidig8r]

Keith in his prime was an icon..one of the defining voices in college football.

Teaming with the Drunken Frank Broyles calling games...

Chris Schenkle....
Keith Jackson....
Lindsey Nelson...

These dudes WERE the voices of college football in a simpler time and age.

Today... no one is left to run with the legacy.

[slickdawg]

What? Brent Musberger isn't the next Keith Jackson?

[Landthief 1972]

I wonder if he can take Bob Barry Sr. to the retirement community with him.

[Quack 10]

I will miss Brett Romar.

I suppose it's more understandable in this case, but he did the same thing to Haloti Ngata (which is pronounced (Ha-lote-ee Naw-ta), He always called hime "ha-law-tay Note-ah."

[Cam]

Keith Jackson = Original *** Hat

Nobody could call a more one sided game than that man. Nebish fans should absolutely love him after all the knob jobs he's given them over the years on Nat'l TV.

[Flagstaffsooner]

:D
It’s done–again. Keith Jackson, like Michael Jordan, porn star Janine, and Walter Mondale, has announced his second unconvincing retirement from his profession (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2423674). Keith’s been edging into incoherence for years now, but the internet’s made it even harder for ABC to cloak his long, slow slide into the applesauce and crunchy plastic pants years–since now you may email a whole focus group of your peers to verify that, yes, he really did call Jason White “Jack Mildren” in the late third quarter. The capper came in his grandfatherly and utterly addled patter during this year’s Rose Bowl. Keith alternately got names wrong, miscounted time-outs, and ran at least a step and a half behind the action while Dan Fouts ran interference and tried not to spoil the Old Testament-awesome sight of Vince Young raining fire, frogs, and pestilence on USC.
And we’d be lying if we said we could remember Keith at his best. In fact, we don’t really get the retirement since our primary heroes in the broadcasting business have always been:
a.) senile
b.) drunk
c.) deranged homers
d.) all of the above
In case you want an argument as to why announcers should be one of these (or in the gifted case of Harry Caray, the whole shebang,) take the gilded name of Joe Buck, the sanctimonious forehead whose bad punnery and “wit” nearly spoil the superb analytical work Troy Aikman does at his side. Buck is not only not Methuselah-old, he’s irritatingly sober on the air. Say what you will about the weekly Musbergame in the fall, but one thing remains certain: a man who cracks a beer in a car and then jokes about getting ticketed for it is definitely fine announcer material, as well as a guy you could obviously drink with after the game, which is all anyone really wants from the crusty play-by-play guy anyway. Joe Buck, on the other hand, sounds like a guy you’d get into a fight with at a church league softball game–and pound until his wife pulled you off of him.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Harry_Caray.jpg
The Blueprint: Harry, seen here in 1993 preparing to vomit up a pitcher of martinis and Vance Law’s career.
With that said, Keith–like William Butler Yeats in his “rag and bone shop of the heart” period–did have more than a handful late-life moments of eccentric greatness. Here’s our two favorites.
1. Big Ol’ Leg. Keith, as with all announcers weaned on field-position football, had a special affection for the punters and long snappers who made it all possible. The highest appelation indicating Keith’s esteem was saying in his Georgia drawl that the punter “had a BIG OL LEHHHHHHHGGG.” He’d draw it out in the baritone that stayed golden well past his critical faculties did, speeding up through the middle and leaning on the last word for a good one and a half seconds. Never failed to make us smile the same smile we’d get when our own grandfather would say the phrase “Get on out of here” in a single, unmistakeable syllable: “HITONOUTTAHEYAH!!!” Or when he’d do things like fall asleep while driving or in the middle of eating a stack of six slices of country ham. You know, the funny grandpa vibe.
2. Airplanes, Dan. Airplanes. This had to be from the OU-UCLA game in 2003, a 59-24 giggler that had Dan and Keith reading the rules of bridge to keep viewers awake. This territory kills lesser broadcasters in their prime, often forcing them to comb the stands for the most obvious displays of public tittery or sleeping children in between long, uncomfortable silences; for the declining Jackson, it was a deathtrap, and he waltzed right into it when the obligatory blimp shots above Los Angeles.
Keith: Our overhead shots today are brought to us courtesy of Goodyear Tires and the Goodyear blimp. Man oh man, have they changed things…fly from one city to the next…it’s just a whole lot different than it used to be, Dan.
Dan: Um…(long, long silence)…you mean blimps?
Keith: Airplanes, Dan. Airplanes.
The first thing that leapt to our mind: Ronald Reagan calling his memoirs “trees.” Unless Keith was remembering sharing a gin rickey with Myrna Loy on the Hindenburg’s Goebbels deck in 1932, we’re pretty sure Keith was conflating all forms of air transportation into a single word–which is a moment of senile greatness right up there with Harry Caray calling Lenny Dykstra “Richie Ashburn” in during a game in 1993. He even lost the ever-game Fouts, who completely surrendered to the incomprehension in this case.
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Airplanes, Dan. Airplanes.