Question: Favorite Musburger line?

[Elwood Crimson]

Brent Musburger cracks me up. Favorite line from last night: "He's hunting down defenders." Classic Musburger.

Can anyone capture that one and put it online? What is your favorite Musburger line?

 

[bamabryan]

I've never been a Musburger fan. I've just never cared for the guy.

Give me Keith Jackson any day.

 

[elizabama74]

Not sure the exact wording but it was something like this. Nick Saban said he had to quit drinking, cause when you coach this team when you sit down and have a beer it leads to another then another and before you know it your drunk. Then Musburger says as for me I'm still drinking the same as always.:biggrin:

 

[uafan4life]

My favorite line from Musberger will be "I'm retiring."

 

[CapstoneTider]

Brent Musburger cracks me up. Favorite line from last night: "He's hunting down defenders." Classic Musburger.

Can anyone capture that one and put it online? What is your favorite Musburger line?

I have always like Musteredburger because his head is the clouds sometimes which I find humerous too, and he doesn't follow the standards these days of over praising the team that is ahead and as soon as they get behind immediately start talking about their weaknesses instead of just calling the plays and adding color to the game. It's a lot like all journalism today to exaggerate everything to the second. Musteredburger doesn't do this, neither did Jackson or Gottfried, who was the last really good ESPN commentator.

 

[silentsam74]

I liked when he was discussing the wildcat package he said a lot of credit for the rapid spread of the wildcat goes to Houston Nutt and McFarland when they were at Arkansas. Now Nutt coaches at Ole Miss and McFarland is in the NFL.:biggrin: Herbie didn't say anything and Musberger never offered to correct himself afterward.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Gottfried, who was the last really good ESPN commentator.

You forgot Ron Franklin. He's not only better than ABC/ESPN's "first team" now, he's a genuinely nice guy (even if he did use to date my wife)...

 

[CapstoneTider]

You forgot Ron Franklin. He's not only better than ABC/ESPN's "first team" now, he's a genuinely nice guy (even if he did use to date my wife)...

You're right about Franklin who I miss, he is in there with the last of the really good ones for ESPN. Funny about the wife!

Is it my new HD TV or is Holtz slobbering with his S's gotten ridiculous this year. It's sickening to listen to what he says, then you add in the slobbering sound makes it unbearable.

You heard it here first. This will be Holtz last year in his present position with ESPN. I don't even believe his fellow emplyees have any respect for him and his biased opinions, especially for ND.

 

[ontopp]

You forgot Ron Franklin. He's not only better than ABC/ESPN's "first team" now, he's a genuinely nice guy (even if he did use to date my wife)...

I forgot about those guys they were really pretty good anouncers both of them!:BigA:

 

[Let's Roll Tide]

[/QUOTE]You heard it here first. This will be Holtz last year in his present position with ESPN. I don't even believe his fellow emplyees have any respect for him and his biased opinions, especially for ND.[/QUOTE]



Yeah, I believe Holtz signed his walking papers when he announced Notre Dame would win the title this year. Wishful thinking for a biased announcer...

 

[chris]

You forgot Ron Franklin. He's not only better than ABC/ESPN's "first team" now, he's a genuinely nice guy (even if he did use to date my wife)...

She apparently has good taste! :biggrin2:

 

[cbi1972]

In the pregame, Herbstreit was talking about the two quarterbacks Greg McElroy and Tyrod Taylor, he gave a rundown on both, and when he turned it over to Brent, he said:

"These two quarterbacks.....Kirk told you who they were...."

He clearly forgot their names.

 

[cbi1972]

Yeah, I believe Holtz signed his walking papers when he announced Notre Dame would win the title this year. Wishful thinking for a biased announcer...

I dont think Holtz's value to ESPN is in his astute and unbiased analysis of teams.

 

[CajunCrimson]

Musburger ranks as my 2nd least favorite commentator, right behind Brando.... so I tended to watch more than I listened.....

 

[uafan4life]

You forgot Ron Franklin. He's not only better than ABC/ESPN's "first team" now, he's a genuinely nice guy (even if he did use to date my wife)...

I'm hoping that was before she became your wife!

 

[Hal Bennett]

You forgot Ron Franklin. He's not only better than ABC/ESPN's "first team" now, he's a genuinely nice guy (even if he did use to date my wife)...

Ron Franklin and ___ Gottfried (Mark's brother) formed a great broadcast team. My take on their falling out included the fact (as I see it) that they were TOO good for today's broadcast standards. They were a throwback to the Keith Jackson-Frank Broyles team of the seventies, when graphics that spin and whoosh and threaten my senses, along with drumbeats and music and gabby commentators who don't really know the game, were only a gleam in the eye of today's TV producers.

Give me the calm but assertive tones of Chris Schenckel, Lindsey Nelson, Mel Allen, etc. As far as I am concerned, football broadcasting has gone to seed, and it happened once the broadcasters/commentators proliferated due to the corresponding proliferation of football broadcasts. You can SAY that those holding forth today are as good as they used to be, that the talent hasn't been spread W-A-A-A-Y too thin, but. . . . . .

I am for anything that helps the underprivileged and handicapped. But if Brent Musberger and Verne Lundquist are going to spoil their broadcasts by telling sighted people, who presumably make up more than 95 per cent of their audience, EVERY move made on the field, when we who are sighted can see EVERY one of these moves for ourselves, then why don't the networks provide a national radio broadcast of these same TV games for unsighted people?

 

[exiledNms]

"What do you think, Herbie?" (or any other such line that connotes that Brent is finished talking)

 

[smokewagon212]

I've never been a Musburger fan. I've just never cared for the guy.

Give me Keith Jackson any day.

wasnt musburger arrested for beating a hooker or something?

 

[sonoma]

Bill Curry or Bob Davies, like eating a dirt sandwich.

 

[TexasBammer]

When he actually said Alabama had 12 national championships.