Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 6844040)

The cadence is poetry Howard [slight pause] gratefully claims it [pause] distribution [pause] brilliant, . . . then it builds from there.

For all the gushing over the Spanish guy's nonstop motor and eternal GOOOOOALLLL'S, I'll take the English reserve transformed to excitement at truly exciting moments over it in a heartbeat.

Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 6844040)

The cadence is poetry Howard [slight pause] gratefully claims it [pause] distribution [pause] brilliant, . . . then it builds from there.

For all the gushing over the Spanish guy's nonstop motor and eternal GOOOOOALLLL'S, I'll take the English reserve transformed to excitement at truly exciting moments over it in a heartbeat.

Originally Posted by memyselfI (Post 6844101)

I thought he said GRACEFULLY.

One thing I love about the WC (and soccer as a whole) is that the announcers do not seem to hide their excitement. They are as swept up in the moment as anyone. Can you think of another sport where this happens to the same extent?

Originally Posted by memyselfI (Post 6844101)

I thought he said GRACEFULLY.

One thing I love about the WC (and soccer as a whole) is that the announcers do not seem to hide their excitement. They are as swept up in the moment as anyone. Can you think of another sport where this happens to the same extent?

Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 6844040)

The cadence is poetry Howard [slight pause] gratefully claims it [pause] distribution [pause] brilliant, . . . then it builds from there.

For all the gushing over the Spanish guy's nonstop motor and eternal GOOOOOALLLL'S, I'll take the English reserve transformed to excitement at truly exciting moments over it in a heartbeat.

Originally Posted by DJay23 (Post 6844107)

I love how here in the US, we like having a Brit do our soccer play by play. Americans just don't sound right, at least on play by play.

I wonder if these British fellas we have doing our games are big names in the UK for soccer announcing or if they are the Ian Eagles of their country. I would think it would be a pretty big honor to announce the games for your home country, especially when you invented the sport.

Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 6844110)

Ian Darke is pretty much THE VOICE of EPL, has been [with some detours, mainly boxing] since it started. Actually, he was 2nd in command early on, but the main voice on MNF [British EPL version].

Originally Posted by Buck (Post 6844115)

I think we had Martin Tyler for the first game against England. I know he is big.

Originally Posted by DJay23 (Post 6844116)

Interesting, I wonder if ESPN backed a truck up to his door to do the gig, or if he wanted to broadcast to America.

Originally Posted by Ian Darke

DL: Let's talk about that one line because there is some debate here as to whether or not you say, "goal goal USA" or "go go USA." I thought just based on your accent and how you were saying it, you said "goal" we just didn't hear the "L" at the end.
Darke: I think it got lost in all the noise and emotion. I think what I said was "go go USA" because it just came out, like I said before, it is somehow instinctively what came out.

Originally Posted by Ian Darke

DL: What I found most interesting about the call is after you do the play-by-play and the ball is in, you sort of let the moment breathe. John Harkes started to react and started to give his analysts and then just stopped, and you picked up and finished. And I felt that maybe Harkes had been overwhelmed by the emotion, being a former player for the United States side, that you sort of jumped in and gave him a lifeline there. Is that what happened?
Darke: No, it isn't. No, it isn't. I'll tell you exactly what happened. John was pretty emotional, but he's a great professional broadcaster too, now. He wouldn't have dried up, certainly not at a moment like that. The first thing is we tried to let the moment breathe and not talk all over it, the celebrations, just let people absorb the atmosphere.
At that time, the other game had finished and they were joining us. I was getting instructions from the producer to welcome people from ESPN2. I'll admit, that message in all the hullabaloo, did get a bit garbled, understandably. So he told John to hold up a minute while I did that. I think I said something somewhere over the replay, "if you're just joining us…" I'll defend John, he didn't dry up, but was he emotional? You bet.

Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 6844120)

http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/201...ifa-world-cup/

Darke, interviewed about the call.

http://onthedlpodcast.com/2010/06/dl...greatest-goal/

And Buck, he DOES say GO GO USA!!!

Originally Posted by Shag (Post 6844058)

Weren't you just there?

Originally Posted by CHENZ A! (Post 6844130)

Couple weeks was the last time. I put on for my city and my country. This shit is wild.
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Originally Posted by Buck (Post 6844115)

I think we had Martin Tyler for the first game against England. I know he is big.