Chick Hearn
Chick Hearn
Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearnwas an American sportscaster. Known primarily as the long-time play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, Hearn was remembered for his rapid fire, staccato broadcasting style, associated with colorful phrases such as slam dunk, air ball, and no harm, no foul that have become common basketball vernacular, and for broadcasting 3,338 consecutive Lakers games starting on November 21, 1965. Additionally, Hearn started the now common tradition of estimating the distance of shots...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth27 November 1916
CityAurora, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.
Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.
Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.
Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!
The game's in the refrigerator, the door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O's jiggling,
The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."
You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.