The title isn't exactly on point, & Murrow did broadcast a bit before my time. Most folks thought he was very good at what he did. I liked him & his famous sign off from what I know.

So fast forward to today and the massive amount of broadcast sports that we can receive. Who is best at telling us what's going on (Marvin Gaye) even though we can see it ourselves on Hi - Def 60" Screens.

You can pick 1 person, duo's, trio's, u get it. Arguments can develop & people can state their case(s). This could also morph into what is the best show about sports because of the people they use, etc. OK - I'll start with two I feel good about. 1st will be what Americas game is now:

PRO FOOTBALL - Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth. I don't watch Pro Football as much as I used to, but this is one game that I almost always watch (because of the broadcasters) - Sunday Night Football - Wow have the years gone by - I watched Monday night games with the original broadcasters.

The highlight was Howard Cosell doing the halftime highlights - at halftime he would narrate as you saw the best plays of Sundays games & he made it exciting. He loved to narrate when O.J. made a great run. Miami's got the oranges, but Buffalo's got The Juice!! And Howard had to leave the show cause he was too juiced during the games.

Al Michaels is the Gold Standard. Called "The Miracle on Ice", he did a great job when the Earthquake rocked the 1989 World Series in San Francisco.

And Collinsworth hit the ground running to learn his job and he REALLY STUDIES for each game they do. He has a good sense of humor, can often tell what a play is going to be, what the defense is gonna do, which players are doing well & badly on the "O" & "D" lines & on & on.

This is going too long so I'll make the 2nd pick short and sweet:

Professional Golf - Johnny Miller - Hands down. Wish he did all 4 majors & the Fed Ex & The Ryder Cup. He was a helluva golfer in his day.

you probably want this to be in the sports forum

Tennis - Dan Maskell

Golf - Peter Alliss

I believe there's an outside chance you might have heard of Peter Alliss in America.

It's not how good they are describing or analysing events, it's more they are the defining voice of their sport.

With Keith Jackson doing the play-by-play?

John Madden is underappreciated. Yeah, I said it.

So he could tell the audience about his 63 at Oakmont every other hole?

I think you care far to much and have to stern an opinion on who calls sporting events

Like a sports talk radio host trying to create a point by arguing with himself on a slow day

I like Marv Albert calling NBA games, he's the best. As long as he isn't saddled with Reggie Miller, he's the worst.

Bad sports announcers really can ruin a sporting event, every fan knows this. Like I just auto-mute Reggie Miller for his games. I used to do the same thing with Dan Dierdorf, God he was horrible.

Both Ron Darling and Cal Ripken were very bad doing the recent Mets-Cubs NLCS.

Pat Foley who does the Blackhawks games is the gold standard of hockey announcers. He is already in the Hockey Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Then again I am a homer so theres that

You don't see real old school homerism from local guys much anymore unless they are really entrenched (ie White Sox Hawk Harrelson). I kinda miss the old school fandom from crazy characters like Harry Carey. One of the most obnoxious homers of all time was Eddie Doucette of the Milwaukee Bucks. If you weren't a Bucks fan you would hate this guy with every fiber of your being and I think that's the way it should be.

The SE guys all hate the Spurs' Sean Elliott and think he's a homer, but he doesn't bother me one bit. I've always liked Sean. Spurs open tonight at OKC, go Spurs go!

I grew up on the great Jack Buck doing the Cardinals games, pretty much perfect. I was glued to my radio every summer.

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I agree about bad announcers. Especially many years ago when many games were listened to with a transistor radio (no video at all for most games) & at times you'd use the wire with the earpiece.

I lived in a suburb of St. Louis in the late 60's when the Cards were in the series in 67 vs. Boston (Cards won) & 68 vs. Detroit (Cards lost in 7). Detroit had 2 GREAT pitchers. Denny McLain who won 31 games in the regular season (last time any pitcher won 30 or more games in a regular season) & MVP Mickey Lolich who won 3 complete games in one World Series.

The Cards had Bob Gibson (who was MVP in 64 & 67 World series) who was a GREAT pitcher. He came into the 68 series with an 1968 regular season ERA of 1.12.

He pitched complete games in game 1, 4, and 7. In game 1 he threw a shutout striking out 17 which is a record that still stands. (The strike outs).

That was back when Baseball was Americas favorite sport....not football as today.

I can still remember Jack Bucks voice. And his son is Joe Buck the announcer. I obviously didn't remember all these stats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_World_Series

I lived in a suburb of Akron in the 70's and the Cleveland Cav's had a great year for them in 75-76. Won their division. Beat the Washington Bullets in 4-3 & won game 7 with a shot with 4 seconds left. I was at that game and the fan noise was insane.

They had lost their starting center Jim Chones with a broken ankle & their back up was an old Nate Thurmond. The Cavs lost to the Celtics which kept them out of the 76 finals which players & fans thought they would have won with a healthy Chones.

The Cavs had a great announcer named Joe Tait who was inducted into The Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010 after 40 years of doing Cavs games. He used to go to a beer & sandwich joint after home games & he was a very approachable guy.

The 76 game 7 was called "The Miracle of Ritchfield" (Hey, it's Cleveland, they gotta take what they can get). By the way, Ritchfield was a suburb between Cleveland & Akron where the Cavs played their games back then. Of course that is about 40 years ago....here is the last couple of minutes.