[Husker] Announcers

[gzimmerman at everestkc.net]

Thorne is an excellent hocky PXP announcer. He reminds me a bit of the late, great, Dan Kelly.

That said, I'll cut him a little slack for some of his mistakes. But, "seed thrower" was pretty funny.

Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
Overland Park, Kansas

----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Phillips <matthew.a.phillips at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, November 5, 2006 8:54 am
Subject: Re: [Husker] Announcers

> Two cents here, but I didn't think the commentators were that bad on
> Saturday; in fact Thorne has a great voice for the game.  We're 
> always going
> to know our team better than any announcer ever could.
> 
> Whenever I think the coverage is bad, I think about Artie 
> Gigantino and
> those meatheads at FSN.  Yuck.
> 
> ~m
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/4/06, Bob Beach <rbeach at neb.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: j j
> > To: Bob Beach ; husker at tssi.com
> > Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 8:47 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Husker] Announcers
> >
> >
> > It wasn't Thorne as much as it was Ware. He was absolutley 
> terrible. I
> > think he threw Thorne off of his game.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >        Could be, but Gary Thorne should be way too professional for
> > that.  I can't believe Thorne would be affected in any way by 
> his side
> > kick.  I have heard Thorne broadcast many games both baseball and
> > football.  I would believe Thorne just made honest mistakes like 
> any human
> > can do.  One thing to remember is Andre Ware is not a trained 
> professional> announcer.  He is a jock in the booth.  What do you 
> expect?  But, even if
> > Ware was terrible so what?
> >
> >
> > Bob Beach
> >
> > I never learned anything when I was the one doing the talking.
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