I did not realize I was supposed to hate him until I found the Pub.
Except for Lindsey Nelson and our hometown announcers, I never expected Network commentators to kiss our ass. Mostly because most did...Rick
of joy.
The same tears I had when it was announced that Bo had taken a dirt nap.
He's really most sincerely dead.
I struggle to remember that sometimes.
It was mid-year 1981 and the Niners still hadn't shaken off their losing ways. Guys were milling about, not really getting organized and ready to play and Ronnie and a few other guys were chomping at the bit to get going so they could get on the field. It was nearly time to do the team prayer, but nobody was really ready to go. All of a sudden, Ronnie jumps up and yells something to the effect of "if you stupid motherfuckers don't get in here right now to say the mother-fucking Lord's prayer I am going to kill every single last one of you motherfuckers!"
Pretty sure Ronnie is big on saying some "F cancer" prayers while he is at mass.
But the great Niner teams of the 80s would have smacked the shit out of the current Patriot dynasty. They were the greatest teams of all time.
except his choice of alma mater
the biggest mistake Seifert ever made was putting Ronnie on plan B. Basically ended up having to trade Haley a year later.
I was sad when Dick Enberg died a few weeks ago. I wasn't sad when Keith Jackson passed away. I was never a fan, and I knew he didn't like ND much at all.
That said, I don't view his death as being "good." To me, the only deaths that are good are those of murderers, rapists, dictators, terrorists and others who have inflicted great pain on others. Sportscasters who don't like my alma mater don't fall into that category.
He definitely hated ND, but he was an icon. That voice, and Musberger essentially raised me on college football.
Looking at the current crap of personalities who cover college football, Jackson was authentic. To your point, I hated when he covered ND games because he had an anti ND bias, but he was still great at what he did.
Fortunately, Bo is still in hell.
bias doing your job. He failed miserably in that area,
we knew we were somebody. I'm not sure we even register a strong dislike anymore.
one of Joepa's big time media enablers ("Joe and Sue Paterno yadda yadda yadda .."). And I want to hear no excuses for his anti-ND bias because of the tv contract.
We should pray that everyone, even scoundrels, finds peaceful repose.
Since I came to ND fandom rather late - I had no direct connections to ND before attending - I've always found the whole "Keith Jackson hates Notre Dame" whining on the part of the Notre Dame fanbase to be completely ridiculous. So much so that if there were an "irrational ridiculousness" scale, Notre Dame fans' assessment of Jackson would land right next to Texas A&M's "little brother syndrome" in their hatred of the Texas Longhorns.
Jackson was the voice of college football for a couple of generations, and he deserves a fond sendoff, even from Notre Dame. In fact, maybe especially from Notre Dame, since he was probably more informed about Notre Dame's history than most Notre Dame fans.
Not at all.
Zip
I canât remember if he was a dick not, and what he did. I will reserve my prayers for the repose of his soul tomorrow at mass until I learn more.
You put me in the mood for more tears in the Big House.
The Big 10 Network broadcast starts with Lloyd Carr and Mike Hart "eyeing a national championship". Enjoy.
Speed kills! And The Boys from Boone N.C. (ground zero for fly rod trout fishing) were loaded with it. Great shots of tear-soaked Walmart Wolverines.
Only thing missing was LLoyd Carr sneering after the game while wondering how he was going to explain it to Bo.
That's one way to get the attention of North Carolina royalty.
oh, did I say that out loud?
(#21, by the way)
I saw the end at the old ND Faculty Club (RIP) as my dad and I tried to dry off from the torrential downpour during that day's ND-Purdue game. Note how the Michigan scoreboard did not reflect the winning Colorado TD more than 30 seconds after it was scored. (There was no replay review in those days.)
I had just left our tailgater near Senior Bar wanting to go dry off after the PU game. The last I had heard is that Michigan was up 12 points with about five minutes to go. I had pretty well written off any hope.
Then I jumped in my car and began heading home. I tuned in Jeff Jeffers' postgame show. He was recapping not only our game, but Miami's first home loss (to Washington) in nine years. Jeffers then mentioned that Colorado was down five, but with under a minute to go.
Minutes later, a listener called in and, while on the air, shouted to Jeffers, "Man did you just see that ending to the Michigan game? Wow."
I knew it had to be something good.
and ended up with some college buddies at the cherry cricket
the writing was on the wall and we were finishing up and gonna get the tab when my brother said something like "only flutie can save 'em now"
i've never seen so many full pitchers of beer appear out of no where on a table
we immediately rallied and went late into the night
it might be the only useful moment in Buff football history
Their one half-championship was gifted to them by the refs, against ND, Missouri, and Stanford.
down, down.
Rank your favorite non-ND Big House game ending play.
I will assume this is your favorite Keith Jackson game ending ND at Michigan call ("somebody over the top!!")
"For the win!"
"Did he actually, literally spike it?"
Shame.
And they donât want the diamonds. They donât want to rubyâs. They want the family jewels
FUMBLLLLLLLE!
It was almost like he wasn't watching Tony's run until he stepped into the end zone.
I remember him saying that but don't remember the circumstance.
Context is for some crazy reason he thought a spike was a deflected pass, and Dan Fouts corrected him.
He was a crotchety old ND hater, but he had a lot of memorable calls in ND games.
Of course Keith wanted Rocket out of the game, otherwise Michigan was never going to be able to catch up.
Michigan had just got back to within 5 points in the 4th and Rocket just ripped the heart out of every skunkbear fan.
enberg and keith gone
and somehow scotch soaked brent is sitting at a craps table in biloxi on a 38 hour bender
Keith was looking at the line on the end zone graphic.
had Rice not slightly underthrown The Rocket. (It won't let me embed, so here's the link.)
He was still talking about it five minutes later. Finally the truck dialed up the replay with Bob Griese trying to politely point out his mistake and Jackson still didn't want to hear it - immediately blaming the official again (12:10 mark).
The red one. Not the out of bounds one.
Keith was just hoping.
he was just old. And he didn't retire for another 18 years.
As usual.
That can now be put on his tombstone. Rest in peace.
I didn't realize his last call was 12 years ago.
RIP
He was big time college football and you knew it when he had your game. So he wasn't a shrill for ND...I saw a cool video of him in '77 saying wonderful things
one doesn't think he was a goat, doesn't mean hate for him. He was a good announcer, just not he best. If you never heard previous announcers he will seem to be the best. Or, what does an elephant look like to a blind man?
I was there, and he, Digger, and Willie Fry were highlights of the show. If Jackson said much positive about ND in ensuing 40 years, I can't recall it. He was basically anti-ND after the NBC contract in '91.
(ND narrowly losing to Penn State). ND was the only college football team not to be part of the ABC-TV contract from 1991-1995, before CBS got the SEC contract and, more briefly, the Big East. I'm sure Jackson resented that.
the TV contract thing. Then he definitely soured against us and hid his bias poorly.
as opposed to the 60-some other CFA schools.
ABC had an NCAA TV monopoly from 1966-1981. ABC and CBS shared the NCAA contract from 1982-1983 (TBS had a "supplemental" contract of night games, initially limited to teams that hadn't been on national TV the preceding year).
The Supreme Court voided the NCAA TV deals in 1984 on antitrust grounds. From 1984-1986, ABC had the CFA contract, while CBS had contracts with the Big Ten, Pac-10, ACC, Army, Navy, and Miami (an independent at the time, but for some reason not a CFA member). From 1987-1990, the CFA contract flipped to CBS (which retained the ACC, Army-Navy, and Miami deals), and the Big Ten and Pac-10 to ABC.
For 1991-1995, ABC signed contracts with the CFA (which I think now included Miami, as a Big East member) and the Big Ten and Pac-10. This threatened to -- and did -- diminish the number of college football games on national network TV. CBS had mostly aired national games when it had the CFA contract, although it had occasional regional telecasts. By comparison, when ABC had the Big Ten and Pac-10 together, it usually showed those games regionally, with a few exceptions (usually in September and late November). But with all major college football schools tied to ABC, there were many weeks without a single national network telecast. That certainly did not make me happy, and it apparently was one of the features that prompted ND to bolt away from the CFA and cut its own deal with NBC.
ND basically became an outcast in the college football world at that point. Kansas even cancelled a basketball series in protest, while many coaches (most notably Paterno) and commentators ripped ND. I believe this was a major reason why ND lost the poll votes for the 1993 national championship to a Florida State team ND had decisively beaten in November.
But this anti-ND stance hardly was a principled one. When the ABC deal expired in 1995, the SEC and Big East bolted to CBS, which prompted the CFA to dissolve in 1997. From that point on, every conference negotiated for itself. I believe the supremacy of conferences in college football has hurt ND, perhaps as much as our own institutional incompetence.
and said as much on the record. He didn't think it was good for college football. It also kept him from calling a lot of good games.
Had ND stuck with the CFA in 91, probably 70% of their home games would have been regional. And probably to small markets because they would have been competing with Big 10 games in the same slot.
that a Rodney Peete pass was not incomplete, but had been intercepted by Stan Smagala for a pick-6. That play put ND up 20-7 at halftime and turned out to basically ice the game.
My favorite Jackson call was not from a game, but this commercial.
that Nellie was not his wife's name.