[re_nortex]

...riding his horse four miles to his rural Georgia high school...

I think a case can be made that some of the best sportscasters (and color guys) either were born or raised in the South.

• Mel Allen
• Ernie Harwell
• Red Barber
• Jim Nantz
• Pat Summerall
• Lindsey Nelson
• Dizzy Dean
• Verne Lundquist (Born in Minnesota but a longtime Texan)

On the other hand, the voice of perhaps the most Southern of college football teams, Alabama's Crimson Tide, is a Jewish fellow from Brooklyn, Eli Gold (shown below):

[Ken H]

Dizzy Dean

Now you're talking. I loved listening to him and Pee Wee Reese on the Saturday game of the week. He liked his Falstaff beer and seemed to have a nice buzz going by the later innings.