Favorite announcers

[RashanGary]

I like Jaws and Rich Gannon off the top of my head (Jaws the most). Both seem to do a great job breaking down the decision making process for a QB. I'm finally starting to understand QB play thanks, in part, to the tidbits announcers like them give.

I also like Strahan on Fox for a pregame guy.

[Cheesehead Craig]

Dan Fouts is fantastic and I wish he'd get a full time announcing gig. Too bad he got lumped in with the Dennis Miller fiasco on MNF.

[oregonpackfan]

Dan Fouts is fantastic and I wish he'd get a full time announcing gig. Too bad he got lumped in with the Dennis Miller fiasco on MNF.

For college games, I always liked the pair of Keith Jackson doing the play-by-play with Dan Fouts as the expert "color man." Their skills complimented each other very well.

I have watched a couple of games where Fouts is doing the play-by-play. He is not as fluid in that role. His strength lies in being the analyst, IMO.

BTW, Fouts keeps his permanent home in Sisters, Oregon. It is a very scenic community in Oregon's Cascade mountains. If I had the financial assets, I wouldn't mind living there myself.

[Fritz]

Curt Gowdy.

[POLISHHAWK]

Paul McGwire... He makes me laugh just looking at him....

Best Ever? Jerry Glanville

[sheepshead]

Ray Scott, John Madden, Pat Summerall, Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, John Facenda

[oregonpackfan]

Ray Scott, John Madden, Pat Summerall, Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, John Facenda

My favorite Packers announcer is Ray Scott, who covered the Packer games during the Lombardi glory years. He had a very succinct style of broadcasting. He used a limited number of words and sentences to describe the action of TV, leaving it to the viewers to see the totality of the action.

I remember one particular play where Bart Starr threw a bomb to receiver Boyd Dowler for a touchdown pass. Scott described it as "Starr back to pass...this is Dowler...touchdown!"

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This article refers to the sportscaster. For other people named Ray Scott, see Ray Scott.

Ray Scott (1920, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania – March 23, 1998, in Minneapolis, Minnesota), was an American sportscaster, best known for his broadcasts for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League.

Scott began his broadcasting career on local radio in the late 1930s. His first NFL broadcasts came in 1953 over the DuMont Television Network; three years later he began doing Packers broadcasts for CBS, and it was in Green Bay that his terse style of play-by-play developed its greatest following.

Scott was also the lead television and radio announcer for Major League Baseball's Minnesota Twins from 1961 to 1966, calling the 1965 World Series on NBC television.

As the Packers' announcer, Scott broadcast Super Bowl I and II for CBS, along with the infamous "Ice Bowl" championship game of 1967. In 1968, CBS ended its practice of assigning dedicated announcing crews to particular teams, and Scott was appointed to the network's lead NFL crew, teaming with Paul Christman (1968-69) and Pat Summerall (1970-74). During his tenure with CBS he called four Super Bowls and nine NFL (later NFC) championship games.

CBS fired Scott in 1974, replacing him with Summerall (who had been paired with Scott as a color commentator). He was subsequently employed by a number of NFL and MLB teams (including the Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Milwaukee Brewers, and Pittsburgh Pirates), and was play-by-play announcer for the USFL's Arizona Wranglers in 1983 and 1984 and the Portland Breakers in the 1985 season. Scott also broadcast college football, college basketball, and golf at various points in his career. He also teamed with Patrick Ryan while doing high school and college football in and around Billings, Montana.

Scott was twice named National Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, and was given regional awards by that organization 12 times in four different states. In 2000, he was posthumously given the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award by the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Scott's bare-bones style has inspired many sportscasters.

[channtheman]

I've always had a place in my heart for John Madden and Al Micheals on MNF. They still do their gig on SNF but it doesn't seem the same on sundays.

I also am liking the MNF crew this year more and more. Granted I still don't think they are that good but at the start of the year I couldn't even stomach Kornheiser and now he's been growing on me. And I've always like Jaws and his in depth play sequences where he breaks down everything that had to happen just right to work. Those are always really cool to see.

[packinpatland]

Paul McGwire... He makes me laugh just looking at him....

Best Ever? Jerry Glanville

Are you saying this with a straight face?

[packinpatland]

Home games....................Max

[POLISHHAWK]

Paul McGwire... He makes me laugh just looking at him....

Best Ever? Jerry Glanville

Are you saying this with a straight face?

Actually; Yes.

Jerry Glanville was hilarious to listen to.

Also, ESPN'S biggest mistake was breaking up the guys they had for Sunday Night Football (Thiesman, McGwire, Patrick?) MNF announcers SUCK BIGTIME!

[sheepshead]

Scott and Facenda only on tape for me by the way!

I dont know if you can beat Madden and Summerall back in the day.

[sheepshead]

Heres some Facenda:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmiVYFueNvQ

not really an announcer I know--i couldnt find any Scott

[MacCool606]

How about Merlin Olsen and Dick Engberg - used to be the lead team for AFC games on NBC.

[sheepshead]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i40P-2z12Z8&feature=PlayList&p=F225C2D002A86204&index=0

Here's Scott. ( watch Ray put on a school on how to wrap guys up too)