they were a great team...one of the funniest things I ever heard live was after a wayward puck headed towards their booth Marv quipped, “and just like his playing days in the net Sal ducked as the puck was flying towards us.”
RE: “...one of the funniest things I ever heard live was after a wayward puck headed towards their booth Marv quipped, “and just like his playing days in the net Sal ducked as the puck was flying towards us.””
Marv is at least as good at hockey play-by-play as he is at basketball, and he’s very good at basketball. For some reason it never worked as well with football. I also liked him better on radio rather than TV because he really paints a picture, captures the flow, and gets the emphasis points right. (It’s easier to appreciate on the radio.)
I don’t remember any specific quotes with Messina, but I do remember them working well together. I never minded bedtime because we only had 3 TV channels (finally got cable in the early 80’s), but I has a decent radio that would pick up New York and Boston (+ Hartford for hockey) and occasionally Baltimore or Cleveland, although they would fade in and out.
Around the same time (’75-’80) the Islanders had an obnoxious play-by-play guy that I couldn’t stand, although I would listen when they played my North Stars. His shtick when the Islanders scored was to practically yell “go-o-oal. Islander goal, Islander goal.”
I did a little search to try to figure out who he was, and it turns out I’ve hated him twice without realizing it’s the same guy. Now his shtick is “Yankees win! The...Yankees win!” - John Sterling