RIP Billy Packer

[Bongo Fury]

Miss his son Mark on college sports radio especially with Dakich. The younger guys they have now I find generally unlistenable. Guess I’m officially old.

 

[JB75]

Rip for sure. But I’ll always remember how much it seemed like he hated Uconn. And then Jim nantz who was a Uconn fan would try to balance him off. He wasn’t too anti Uconn in that 99 final tho. Might have to watch that today

 

[wheelerdog]

"Wow, Trajan Langdon with the ball and he's going up a great defender. what's he doing here"?
I believe the word is: "traveling."

This will never not give me chills.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

The voice of my post rec basketball Saturday afternoons.

 

[jibsey]

Sorry for his passing but hated him as an announcer. He was a smug son of a gun.

 

[The Yakk]

My favorite was 2004 when Packer said that St. Joseph's #1 seed in the tourney was a joke, making coach Phil Martelli's head explode. Was some great beef!

Man, that was a fantastic year in sports. UConn men, UConn women, Red Sox.

 

[Tenspro2002]

He had some iconic calls in our games, but to be honest I always found him to be kind of a curmudgeon (not in an endearing way) and wasn't exactly heartbroken when CBS moved on.

 

[Waquoit]

He had some iconic calls in our games, but to be honest I always found him to be kind of a curmudgeon (not in an endearing way) and wasn't exactly heartbroken when CBS moved on.

He stunk.

 

[Kathy]

Was always too much of an ACC fan in his broadcasts -and I really think he hated Calhoun and upstart Connecticut