What are your all time favorite announcers' calls?

[legend42]

I'm sure this thread has been worked over a ton, but I haven't seen it in awhile, and I love to be reminded of the ones that have slipped out of my memory. Here are some personal favorites:

Musburger on the Flutie pass: "Flutie flushed...throws it down......caught by Boston College, I don't believe it!" Chills.

Vin Scully's Buckner call. Everyone knows this one start to finish, but the excerpt that always sticks out to me is his emphatic and somewhat surprised "behind the BAG...", as if he knew something weird was going to happen.

Bill Raftery's "Send it in, Jerome!" I want to say I saw this one live, but I'm not positive. Either way, it never loses its coolness.

Keith Jackson on the Kordell Stewart miracle vs. Michigan: "He's got THREE people down there..."

Musburger again, at the end of that Stanford-Arizona game a few years ago: "YES, YES, YES. Robinson at the buzzer!" Maybe the only time anybody has ever out-shouted Dick Vitale.

Thom Breneman's perfectly timed "The LATERAL!" on that amazing Boise State hitch-and-pitch play.

Orsillo's "and the Red Sox win on PATRIOTS DAY!" just as Mark Loretta was about to be mobbed at home plate.

[LionelHutz00]

In a year that's been so improbable, the impossible has happened.

[kyleb]

AND THE INDIANS HAVE WON THE AL PENNANT

[chaseUdown]

The foghorn calling one of Bonds home runs

[MicroBob]

Don't forget the classics:

Russ Hodges, "The Giants win the pennant!"

Johnny Most, "Havlicek stole the ball!"

Al Michaels, "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"

[dustybottoms]

I know Joe Buck doesn't get much love on this board, but two of his call stick out to me...

Ortiz into deep right field, back is Sheffield, we'll see you later tonight ('04 ALCS)

In the air to left field. Back, at the track, at the wall we are tied! (Leyritz '96 WS)

[legend42]

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Don't forget the classics:

Russ Hodges, "The Giants win the pennant!"

Johnny Most, "Havlicek stole the ball!"

Al Michaels, "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"

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Those are definite classics, but I was trying to restrict my personal memories to calls I heard live. I did hear the Michaels call as it was broadcast (I was 10 years old), but as great as it was and is, I already knew the result of the game (some moron had called our house thinking he was giving us some kind of scoop, and my Dad was foolish enough to tell me they won). Took a little luster off the moment at the time, but now I usually choke up when I hear it.

One that I forgot to mention is Verne Lundquist's call on Tiger's chip-in at the Masters. "In your LIFE..."

[Tyler Durden]

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Al Michaels, "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"


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Always causes chills. My g/f and I went to Lake Placid last weekend for the Ironman Triathlon and we sat in Herb Brooks Arena, where the Miracle On Ice occurred. It was very cool to be that up close to history.

Lake Placid is beautiful, btw.

[SuperUberBob]

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Al Michaels, "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"

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Winner.

Perfectly captured the moment.

[GBP04]

Vikings - Cardinals, December 28th, 2003