N Scott, Gus and Kev

Announcers can make or break a game. Bad announcing can stick out like a sore thumb, and great ones blend seamlessly into the game. But, I’ve decided the top 3 announcers based on the simple test of who I would want to narrate my life. (Which will happen once a billionaire decides to philanthropically donate all his money to me for no apparant reason…just you wait)

3) Gus Johnson. The man will always have a special place in my heart. He gets excited when things are only borderline exciting, and when things are actually exciting…oh boy- look out. This is a man who once nicknamed a white player from Maine “The White Lobster”, and when he hit two threes in a row screeched “THE WHITE LOBSTER (pause for effect) IS COOKIN’!!. Brilliant. I would love to listen to him get animated over me doing something commonplace like brushing my teeth. (He cuts towards the incisors... and look at Molars!?!? He Cant be stopped!! he cant be stopped!!) Check out this clip and try to argue with me that he’s my number 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgeqrYxu_YM (Batista with the caahhhhtchhh!!!)

2) Kevin Harlan- Nothing brings back childhood memories like listening to Kevin Harlan’s melodious baritone call a game with such a suave debonair aura about him. AP for 3 was emphatically bellowed, and whenever Tom Gugliotta (my vote for person who would make the best celebrity “guido”) did anything, and I mean anything A googili-googili-oogili!! would be howled for all to hear. Seriously, I think mundane defensive rebounds were given this royal and raw treatment to everyone’s delight. There is no way that everytime Gugliotta was celebrated aloud by Kevin Harlan, an angel got its wings.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc-DV-RB0mg Not a video of the greatest quality, but watch just to hear his voice, and weep that TNT ever stole him from FSN silently with me.


1) N Scott Momaday (Not actually a sports announcer, but back off its my list)
Complete Bauss. N Scott Momaday is a Native American poet, artist, and historian, and he has the greatest voice in the history of anything. I could listen to him say or do anything. Seriously, he could read every word of the wretched script to “XXX” and it would be absolute perfection. (Listening to N Scott Momaday read a Vin Diesel line just got added to my bucket list) When I rule the world, N Scott Momaday is going to read me a bed time story every night. Elongating words at the most perfect time, and having immaculate and unparalleled cadence.

This video really doesn’t do him justice, but rest assured, you will fall in love with his voice just as I have, and you will thank me. You’re welcome.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v0zR_VvEco

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