Best sports annoncers

[TennFan]

Who are the best top 5/10 sports announcers, excluding John Ward, to include football/basketball/baseball?

 

[MAD]

Bill Walton
Dickie V
Joe Buck
Booger McFarland
Gary Danielson

 

[GAVol]

Bill Walton
Dickie V
Joe Buck
Booger McFarland
Gary Danielson

If I was running a terrorist prison, these would definitely be at the top of my list.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Keith Jackson
Pat Summerall
Vin Scully
Al Michaels
Jim Nantz
Marv Albert
Howard Cosell
Jack Buck
John Madden
Brent Musburger

 

[Notorious B.E.N]

If I was running a terrorist prison, these would definitely be at the top of my list.

If i was the prisoner, you'd need would be A-Rod, Gus Johnson and Mauro Ranallo.

Oh and Beth Mowins

 

[SCRocket]

Brad Nessler

 

[GBO18]

Ron Franklin was awesome.

 

[Toujours Pret]

Sean McDonagh
Doc Emerick
Don Orsillo

 

[TennFan]

How about Mussberger, Gowdy or Enberg? I go along with Vitale and Keith Jackson!

 

[n_huffhines]

The best color commentators are Romo, Daniel Cormier, Joe Rogan, and John Smoltz.

 

[GAVol]

The best color commentators are Romo, Daniel Cormier, Joe Rogan, and John Smoltz.

That’s a good list. Those mma guys don’t get enough credit.

 

[n_huffhines]

That’s a good list. Those mma guys don’t get enough credit.

I think one advantage MMA has over other sports is that guys like DC and Rogan have a lot of experience in gyms explaining complicated grappling to novices. It's just the nature of the sport. So DC can step off the mat and sit ringside and speak to the home audience with an incredible level of communication. Contrast that with someone like Witten who probably worked at camps with kids showing them 3-point stances and post routes, but never related anything that complicated to anyone outside of the sport, and it showed.

 

[GAVol]

I think one advantage MMA has over other sports is that guys like DC and Rogan have a lot of experience in gyms explaining complicated grappling to novices. It's just the nature of the sport. So DC can step off the mat and sit ringside and speak to the home audience with an incredible level of communication. Contrast that with someone like Witten who probably worked at camps with kids showing them 3-point stances and post routes, but never related anything that complicated to anyone outside of the sport, and it showed.

I always felt bad for Witten. They gave him a big stage but it was obvious as soon as he opened his mouth that he needed to go do some FCS games and get seasoned a little.

 

[05_never_again]

My favorite current play-by-play and color guys:

Brad Nessler
Todd Blackledge
Tony Romo
Jim Hughson (NHL)
Chris Collinsworth (never have understood the hate for him)
Kevin Burkhardt
Dan Shulman
The guys that broadcast the big EPL game on NBCSN
Ian Eagle
Mike Breen
Al Michaels

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Bill Walton
Dickie V
Joe Buck
Booger McFarland
Gary Danielson

Laugh if you will, but I learned from Booger that teams usually lose when they score less points than their opponent.

Usually.

 

[ZZ13]

Wow you all are young. Some of the best I loved to listen to back in the day were Ray Scott, Dick Enberg, Lindsay Nelson and Dan Kelly. I really haven't heard any better than them. Just as good probably, but not better.

 

[Tennesseefan2019]

Anyone not Bob Kesling or Eli Gold

 

[JOEY'S ALL VOL !!!]

My personal all time favorites

Jim McKay
Dick Enberg
Jack Whitaker
Al Michaels
Vin Scully
Jim Nantz
Curt Gowdy
Ron Franklin
Mike Gottfried
Frank Gifford
Don Meredith

Golf wasn't included but should be

David Feherty
Gary McCord
Peter Kostis
Peter Oosterhuis
Peter Alliss

 

[USAFgolferVol]

Bill Walton
Dickie V
Joe Buck
Booger McFarland
Gary Danielson

You're mixing two entirely different specs. Joe Buck is a play-by-play announcer. The rest on your list are color analysts

 

[MAD]

You're mixing two entirely different specs. Joe Buck is a play-by-play announcer. The rest on your list are color analysts

 

[Noggin]

Pat Summerall was the best.

 

[USAFgolferVol]

Best play-by-play: Al Michaels - football. Marv Albert - basketball. Curt Gowdy - baseball.

Best color analyst: Merlin Olson - football. Hubie Brown - basketball. Tim McCarver - baseball

College
Play- by- play: Ron Franklin - football. John Ward - basketball

Color analyst: Pat Haden - football. Bill Garrety - basketball

 

[n_huffhines]

I think getting recognition as a good national play-by-play guy by fans is one of the hardest reputations to achieve in sports media. The guy who has not been mentioned is Mike Tirico. He is so good at seamlessly recovering from a sentence that started out wrong or backwards, you don't even really notice. I don't think anybody does this as well as him.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Al Michaels, Marv Albert,

 

[1972 Grad]

My personal all time favorites

Jim McKay
Dick Enberg
Jack Whitaker
Al Michaels
Vin Scully
Jim Nantz
Curt Gowdy
Ron Franklin
Mike Gottfried
Frank Gifford
Don Meredith

Golf wasn't included but should be

David Feherty
Gary McCord
Peter Kostis
Peter Oosterhuis
Peter Alliss

Re: golf announcers, you forgot Ken Venturi, Jack Whitaker, Roger Maltbie, Johnny Miller, Nick Faldo, and Henry Longhurst.