"Oh my" Rip Dick, you had a great run. Enjoyed him many times over the years
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December 22, 2017, 06:42 AM
mrapteam666
A great announcer with a lot of class. I recall listening to him when I was growing up commentating all the sports.
I thought he narrated and gave great commentary on whatever he was covering.
The great ones are slowly leaving us.
I cannot listen to have the people call the play by play for any sport whether it be baseball, football, etc.. They are sound boring and act like they don't really know the sport they are covering.
December 22, 2017, 06:47 AM
IndyRob
He was the only person worth watching during the Olympics coverage, it's a shame they paired him up with that douche canoe Kostas.
December 22, 2017, 08:57 AM
chellim1
John McEnroe, Enberg’s partner in the tennis broadcast booth for years and his behavioral polar opposite, continued this line of thinking.
“I’ve been around a fair amount of people and I don’t think I’ve met anyone who’s as nice a person, as professional a person,” he told the Union-Tribune in 2016. “Even though he disagreed with the way I acted while I was playing sometimes, he made an effort to figure me out as a person and work better together [as broadcasters] and have fun. …
“If people ask me the top tennis players, when I throw out [Rod] Laver, [Pete] Sampras, Rafa [Nadal], Roger [Federer], I would put him in the same category,” McEnroe said. “He’s a Mount Rushmore guy.”
Here's the intro by Enberg to the NBC presentation of The Championships, Wimbledon.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
December 22, 2017, 10:59 AM
mcrimm
We’ve lost a number of wonderful, Golden voices. Summerall, Gifford, now Enberg. Most of my favorites are gone or in their 80’s. RIP
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December 22, 2017, 11:30 AM
snoris
There have been only a few who could credibly broadcast a wide range of multiple sports---Engberg, Jack Buck, Vin Scully, Jim McKay, Dan Kelly, Marv Albert, Don Criqui, Lloyd Pettit, Lindsay Nelson, and maybe a couple of others.
Scully's now retired, and Criqui and Albert are the only two still actively working. All the rest of the legendary voices in my head are gone.
**sigh**
December 22, 2017, 03:30 PM
TMats
quote:
Originally posted by mcrimm: We’ve lost a number of wonderful, Golden voices. Summerall, Gifford, now Enberg. Most of my favorites are gone or in their 80’s. RIP
Yeah. Don’t forget Keith Jackson.
Fond memories, Mr. Enberg
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December 22, 2017, 06:07 PM
SigLaw
I grew up in Southern California in the 70s and loved UCLA and Angels baseball. Dick was great and will be missed.
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