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DEL.ICIO.USThere won’t be another Munson
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
And now for the Tuesday Countdown:
10: Just a thought on how Larry Munson would react to his own retirement announcement: “Oh, you Larry Munson! … My God, he’s only a senior!”
9: I didn’t grow up here so I can’t fully appreciate what Munson meant to Georgia fans, particularly in the early 1980s. But I did grow up pre-cable when most sports was on the radio. Something has been lost since the explosion on the tube. We don’t rely on the words to paint a picture. There can be no true, “Voice of (fill in your team)” when you’re mostly watching the screen. There will never be another Munson, but, mostly, there will never be another era like his.
8: Radio, Part II: Went looking for Jeff Odgers. Phoned him on his cell. Found him. In Saskatchewan. On his tractor. “I’ve been on this thing for 12 hours,” he said, I think only slightly exaggerating.
7: The former Thrasher player and radio analyst has left the broadcast booth to return to his farm in the southeast corner of Saskatchewan - “Somewhere between Regina and Brandon” - so he can have more time to raise his two sons, Jon (15) and Dakota (12). “I’m really gonna miss the job,” Odgers said. “It was great working with Dan [Kamal] and I had a lot of fun. But this was something I felt I had to do.”
6: Odgers’ farm has been in his family for five generations. He grows organic grain and raises cattle. The hot product: flax. He’ll be happy to hook you up. “I can almost make a living,” he said, laughing. He hopes to be back in Atlanta a few times during the season for hockey development and community events.
5: For what it’s worth, here’s more sad financial evidence of all things Thrasher: Odgers will not be replaced on the AM-680 broadcasts. Draw your own conclusions (in red ink).
4: If Ocho Cinco changes his name to Cero Cero, it would match his touchdown total.
3: A laptop computer was found Saturday in the Notre Dame coaching booth, a violation of NCAA rules. Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis says it was accidental. Of course it was. Because the last thing Charlie Weis ever would do is cheat. Wait. Where did he used to work again?
2: Cheer up, Braves fans. The season is lost but there’s always this: On Sept. 10, the Mets led the Phillies by 3 1/2 games. New York is 4-7 since and now trail Philadelphia by 2 1/2. So let your mocking ease the pain.
1: Is ESPN still doing post-mortems on Yankee Stadium? Or will it just organize a long funeral procession through the Bronx as each piece of the dump is knocked down and carried out?
Comments
By Matt
September 23, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this
ESPN All Brett Farve All the Time.
ESPN We beat every story to death.
ESPN All Red Sox/Yankees All the tim
So when would they have the time to put in a story about Yanqui stadium?
By Sara
September 23, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this
Jeff out of curiosity what does AM-680s decision have to do with the Thrashers? That should be a decision on the part of the radio station which is not owned by the team. Now, it might be an indication of how little they think of hockey and/or crappy hockey ratings, but it has nothing to do with the Thrashers’ bottom line (pathetic though it truly is). Course it could also be an extension of the hissy-fit they threw when 790 got the All-Star Game and 680 didn’t.
Either way, it’s the fans who going to suffer for other people’s bad decisions…lovely.
By Ted Striker
September 23, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this
A story came out about laptop computer being discovered in the Alabama coaching booth too.
27% of their fan base said “what’s a laptop?”
By An Old Dawg Alum
September 23, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this
Jeff, as to why Larry Munson is so loved by the Bulldog faithful:
My favorite call Larry ever made is one that does not get the same attention that many of your other calls.
It was the 1978 Georgia - Kentucky game and the Dogs were losing 16 - 14 and trying to get the field goal team lined up with only seconds left.
I was listening on a crackling WSB 750 AM on that Saturday night, straining to hear as Larry said sometning like:
11 - 10 - 9 - we’re trying to get lined up 7 -6 - 5 - I don’t think we are going to make it 3 -2 there’s the snap - the kick is up - watch it , watch it - and then the radio station went to a commercial.
The only way I knew that we won 17-14 was when we came back from commercial and all of the Georgia folks were happy.
If every game had been played and called like that I would be dead now from old age. I am 57 years old.
Larry made being a Georgia Bulldog mean to live and die with the team.
I think of Larry when I see my old worn Georgia t-shirt which says:
“Me and You and a Dog Named Belue.”
By gt81
September 23, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this
Good luck to Larry. Larry did his job for years with a great passion for UGA. On the thought that there will never be another Larry, I hope you are right. The Tech people loved Al just as much as the UGA people love Larry. We thought he was great and loved the famous call of “Toe Meets Leather”. Then the truth set in, Al was great to us and terrible to most other people. Like Al, Larry was given a pass by the UGA fans. He was exposed when he tried to do the Falcons games. He should have retired years ago. The new voice will take over (already has) and UGA football on the radio will be much better. Can not replace Larry or AL? How about Wes Durham? Wes has more than replaced Al and the truth is obvious that it should have happened years earlier. Even the UGA fans accept him as the Falcon’s radio guy. Larry will be replaced on the radio, the distorted love affair will take about twenty years to go away.
Good luck Larry! Enjoy the rest of your life and thank you for giving us Tech people something else to complai about.
By old fart
September 23, 2008 8:36 PM | Link to this
Hockey … who the hell watches hockey?
By RAMBLE ON!!!
September 24, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this
Let’s pray there will never be another Jeff Schultz.
By scdawg
September 24, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this
Thing is the whole football world knows Larry Munson nobody knows Al.
By Mikey in the SAV
September 24, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
“We just crushed their face” Key word- WE
That is all one needs to know about Larry legend. Godspeed, Larry…WE love you man…
By JSS
September 24, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this
Second that RAMBLE ON, and let’s just hope we can rid of the first Jeff Schultz by December!!!
By baloney
September 25, 2008 5:56 AM | Link to this
WHat will Buffy, Wendy,JEssica,& Mallory and all those other tight bellied coeds do when ole Larry can’t take em to the movies and back to his place for popcorn?
By Emily Posted
September 25, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
Munson may have been good in his day, but his day hasn’t been in the past 10 years. He’s horrible. It’s impossible to follow a game that he broadcasts. He was either completely incompetent or relied too much on folksy affectations.