Jim Nantz
Jim Nantz
James William "Jim" Nantz, IIIis an American sportscaster who has worked on telecasts of the National Football League, National Collegiate Athletic AssociationDivision I men's basketball and the PGA Tour for CBS Sports since the 1990s. He has been the NFL announcer on CBS's top play-by-play team since 2004...
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My father took me to the first regular season game they ever played, when John Gilliam ran the opening kickoff back, ... So I've always had a special place in my heart for the franchise. ... I know how much they mean to that community.
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I really knew he was listening ... It's always been important to me that I knew that some one was listening ... It meant a lot to me.
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(I was) immediately mortified that maybe somebody else had said that earlier in the broadcast, because I didn't know where the line came from. It was spinning around in my head, I guess. But I said it, and as it turns out, no one else had said it.
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I think football is a more interesting 'watch' on television than in the arena. Every year, we tweak the information we give fans. We give information you can never get at the stadium.
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When Dale Murphy speaks, everyone in sports should listen. Dale led a model life during his career, and still does. This book is a heartfelt attempt to help every professional athlete and I guarantee it will.
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When Dale Murphy speaks, everyone in sports should listen,
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Trying to become the greatest dog in the history of the tournament to win a game. A 16 has never beaten a 1.
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They have proven to be quite meritorious. I guess our words didn't really play well in Peoria.
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I walked away thinking this was not a particularly strong year for the Big Ten. Hey, I've been around this tournament for 21 years and I've seen a lot of good and great Big Ten teams come through. But this did not strike me as an impressive year.
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I walked away thinking this was not a particularly strong year for the Big Ten.
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Not AFC news, while NBC and CNN are covering NFC news. It's a level playing ground.
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We'll have to talk about that later, Jim,
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I give them a pretty good chance, with all New England has to come up with to reconstruct their team. Everybody gets to the breaking point, and I think (the Patriots) are pretty close to that.
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Chris Schenkel was a giant. As a boy, I would listen to him. When a game would get really exciting in the fourth quarter, he would say, 'Is there a better way to spend an autumn afternoon?'