[personal] Re: [Husker] Randy Lee Et Al (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

>      If one really wants to nail the technically best and most professional announcer that called Husker Football Ray Scott probably was the hands down best.  He was best known as the "voice of the Green Bay Packers".  The reason I didn't mention him before is he wasn't really a "Husker" broadcaster.  He only did football and he never became part of the community.  He flew in the day of the game and flew out afterwards because he had a Packer game to do the next day.  If I recall correctly Ray Scott only called Husker games a couple of years.  He was more of a rent a broadcaster type thing.  He was extremely respected in NFL annals more so than the collegiate game.  He also called some Minnesota Twins Baseball for a few years.  But, he was mainly the Packers announcer.  He was a consummate professional.  

By the time that Ray Scott did the Huskers games for one season (1992, I 
think), he hadn't been doing Packers games for quite a few years.  I think 
CBS replaced him with Pat Summerall in about 1974.  He did Tampa Bay games 
for a few years, including their infamous 0-26 streak.  

I used to listen to Ray Scott as a kid, even though I was a Bears fan.  

If you had listened to Bears games on the radio in those years, you'd know 
why I listened to the Packers broacast of the Bears-Packers game.  Let's 
put it this way: their 'color' man was Chicago gossip columnist Irv 
Kupcinet, who had played part of a season with the Eagles in the 1930's and
was a friend of the Bears' owner, George Halas.  

Ray was a great announcer in his best years, but the year he did the Huskers
wasn't one of them.  His fly-in-on-Friday schedule didn't leave him very
well prepped, either.  I suspect he spent more time prepping for his weekly
NFL tout show where he gave point spreads for the games.  
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Mike Nolan