Keith Jackson Whoa, Nellie
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/obituaries/keith-jackson-dead.html He called Bucky Dent's home run against the Red Sox in 1978 as well as Reggie Jackson's three-homer game in the 1977 World Series.He covered the 1972 Olympics where Mark Spitz won seven gold medals.In 1999, Jackson was awarded the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Gold Medal — its highest honor — and named to the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame, the first broadcaster accorded those distinguished honors.
Originally published April 15, 2018 at 8:01 pm Updated April 16, 2018 at 12:02 pm . A professor in charge of the broadcasting program gave him an assignment, and he chose a basketball game at nearby Pullman High.From there, Jackson began calling the Washington State Cougars games on the school station. “That’s my purpose.”Jackson won an Emmy and was inducted into two sportscasting halls of fame. In one instance, the Michigan marching band spelled out, “THANKS KEITH.”“If I’ve helped people enjoy the telecast, that’s fine,” he said of his work.
While he covered a variety of sports over his career, he is best known for his coverage of college football from 1952 until 2006, and his distinctive voice, "a throwback voice, deep and operatic. Whoa, Nellie: Keith Jackson remembered at Rose Bowl. Keith Jackson, the voice of college football for generations died on Friday at the age of 89. Although he always had broadcasting aspirations, practicing calls to imaginary games as a boy, he finally got his chance at an actual broadcast while attending Washington State. He was considered the voice of college football by several generations or watchers.He began calling college football games for ABC Sports when it acquired the broadcast rights for NCAA football in 1966.He also worked NFL and NBA games, World Series, Winter and Summer Olympics and auto racing.
Sportscaster Keith Jackson, who brought a folksy, excitable demeanor and down-home exclamations such as "Whoa, Nellie!" Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Well, we had a mule in Georgia, but her name was Pearl.”Jackson was born Oct. 18, 1928, in Carrollton, Ga., a small town near the Georgia-Alabama border. Jackson later claimed that his use of the phrase wasn’t as prevalent as some remembered, and that its popularity lingered because of impersonators spreading it.“This ‘Whoa, Nellie!’ thing is overrated,” he said on more than one occasion.
Whoa, Nellie: Keith Jackson remembered at Rose Bowl . Legendary broadcaster Keith Jackson, who spent some 50 years calling the action in a folksy, down-to-earth manner, has died at the age of 89. His signature phrase for a big moment, “Whoa, Nellie!” was repeated to him ad infinitum in restaurants and other public places by fans throughout his career. Send us a tip using our annonymous form.Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. He was 89. Post-graduation, he went to work at KOMO-TV, a new ABC affiliate in Seattle, combining sports and news broadcasting.Jackson joined the ABC radio network in 1965, getting his big break there when someone was needed to call a parachute-jumping segment for “Wide World of Sports” in 1968.
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