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No Love For The Hockey Guy
by Paul on 01/13/09 at 04:49 PM ET
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A list of the Top 50 sportscasters, as voted by the American Sportscasters Association. Since it is U.S. based I did not expect to see many hockey names.
Maybe I am missing some other hockey guys, but Foster Hewitt is listed at #40, right behind Bill Walton (huh)!
I wonder if any of the voters ever heard of Danny Gallivan or Dan Kelly. How about some of the current hockey broadcasters, Jim Hughson comes to mind and even Bob Cole.
Again, it is U.S. based, so the majority of voters may not even know what a puck is.
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Or even Doc Emrick, who is pretty much celebrated as America’s dean of hockey announcers.
Posted by Forechecker from Nolensville, TN on 01/13/09 at 04:57 PM ET
And I’m thinking it would have really been too much to ask them to consider René Lecavalier, huh? :p
Posted by Josh from Montreal on 01/13/09 at 06:32 PM ET
Considering the only real hockey guy on the list is Canadian, doesn’t seem to me this is an American thing. It is a hockey thing and they threw in the Canadian hockey announcer as a token for the sport.
Posted by Tero from Tacoma on 01/13/09 at 10:39 PM ET
Interesting list. Kind of surprised at Costas being voted at #6 though. He is a great baseball announcer who doesn’t do baseball anymore ( I wish he would return as he is much better IMO than Buck and McCarver). Is Costas’ studio olympic stuff that good? I don’t pay much attention to the olympic studio stuff as its usually filled with fluff stories that don’t interest me all that much.
Posted by UMFan from Colorado on 01/14/09 at 02:20 AM ET
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what about Sam Rosen. He is consistently one of the best Hockey guys, and is a very good football guy.
Posted by bsalamon on 01/13/09 at 04:53 PM ET