Stephan Van Treese PrepTicket feature
by Mike Rutherford on Oct 7, 2008 1:00 PM EDT
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Narration by Pat Summerall? Two-handed dunks in empty gyms? A father who can somehow cut interviews while casually levitating above a lake?
I'm now at least 13 times more excited for Van Treese to arrive on campus than I was before watching this.
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If you look closely at his father’s interview, Eric Estrada is in the background selling lakefront property.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Oct 7, 2008 1:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
How in the hell
did these people land Summerall?
by big east champs on Oct 7, 2008 2:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Summerall?
I’m not sure that’s Summerall; but I’m old and certainly could be wrong.
theoldman
by theoldman on Oct 7, 2008 3:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
It's Summerall
He’s the voice of the entire “Sports Stars of Tomorrow” series.
by Mike Rutherford on Oct 7, 2008 4:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, Summerall
A very underrated football announcer.
Soon he’ll be hawking supplemental Medicare insurance or go carts for old people.
He let the game be the star and got out of the way. Evidently, he got his break in the early 1960’s when New York Football Giant icon Frank Gifford couldn’t make it to a local fifteen minute radio sports show. Summerall filled in. His voice was like a vanilla shake then, but I guess after hours (liver transplant) he would settled in at famed NYC watering hole, Toots Shors, for a drink or six.
Theoldman will remember that in the mid seventies Summerall’s TV partner was former Eagle cornerback, Tom Brookshier, who got into deep stuff when disparaging the intellect of UofL basketball players.
by Roz on Oct 7, 2008 6:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Brookshier
Oh, you bet, I remember that well. And the thing about it was Brookshier, even after being called to task for it, never really thought he’d done anything wrong. A doofus.
theoldman
by theoldman on Oct 8, 2008 9:58 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
What he said
I forgot to include what Brookshier said. It was something to the effect that the U of L starting five (all black) “have a collective I.Q. of about 40.” Or something close to that — my quote may not be exactly right.
theoldman
by theoldman on Oct 8, 2008 10:00 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
And Now That's How We'll Always Think Of Him
It was a bad line and he’ll regret it forever now because it defines him.
Brooks was a decent cornerback in those days. 1960 NFL Champs over the coming Lombardi led Pack.
Don Burroughs. Norm van Brocklin. Oklahoma’s Tommie MacDonald as flanker. Pet Retzlaff as tight end.
And Chuck Bednarik who nearly decapitated Number 16 Frank Gifford in a celebrated blind side hit.
Bednarik played offense and defense. Center on O, linebacker on D.
It’s one of my black and white mind movies that I run through my imaginary projector once in a while.
But football was uncompromisingly more real back then…less frills, less ceremony. No six hour pregame shows or four hour post mortems. The game would come on and Chris Schenkle would just call it.
It might be NY Giants versus Baltimore Colts in December 1958, but Chris would just call it. Naked. Raw.
Like World War II fotage of Rommell streaking across the African sand dunes.
by Roz on Oct 8, 2008 7:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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