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Weirder: Vin Scully hosting a game show - NBC's It Takes Two, 1969-71.

Weirder still -- Vin Scully doing NFL football. Late 70s I think. What's wrong with this picture?

Weirder still -- Vin Scully doing NFL football. Late 70s I think. What's wrong with this picture?

Almost (underline that, gang) the same thing that was wrong when ABC imposed Howard Cosell on baseball (you have heard of fish out of water, no?), with one critical difference: even having a go at football, Vin Scully was class. Howard Cosell was merely crass.

Frankly, if I were to be named commissioner of baseball (yeah, riiiiiight!), my first fiat (after proclaiming that no man who was now or ever had been a baseball owner would ever be deemed eligible to serve as commissioner again in the future) would be that Vin Scully should broadcast the World Series until he dies, no matter which network gets the rights to the Series any year. Some things are just too damn good to lose.

Vin Scully was a football announcer for the NFL playoffs in the '80's, not the '70's, and I thought Scully was as great an announcer for football as he was for baseball.

For basketball, though, Chick Hearn was the best announcer, in my opinion. He'll be missed.