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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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?'
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I will never forget April 13, 1986. It was my first Masters, and just as it ended, (CBS analyst) Ken Venturi drove me back to the CBS compound and said, 'Jimmy, you may be lucky enough to broadcast 50 Masters, but you'll never live to see a greater one than the one you saw today.' I think he was right.
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That's going to be a deceiving final -- a 25-point swing over the final 11 minutes. The Great Danes were great, indeed, for about 30 minutes.
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Your heart goes out to the viewer. The loyal, passionate golf fan sets his weekend schedule around the coverage, and you've got nothing to show him.
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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 hope, because of the way the tournament broke, that they are able to sit back and be really proud of what they did . . . and enjoy the ride the rest of the way.
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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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They have proven to be quite meritorious. I guess our words didn't really play well in Peoria.
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I was kind of out of things to say, to be honest. My teeth were chattering and I had chill bumps up and down my arms, and the moment was almost too big for me.
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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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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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You just can't go out and find somebody who's going to sing the anthem with respect,
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We'll have to talk about that later, Jim,
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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.