Post by nuraman00 on Dec 13, 2018 12:30:34 GMT -8
I heard some stories about former Celtics broadcaster Johnny Most today, from Greg Papa.
* While broadcasting, he would call Rich Mahorn and Jeff Ruland as McFilthy and McNasty.
* He smoked while broadcasting. One time, he dropped his cigarette on his pants, and screamed "Aagh! I'm on fire."
* When broadcasting the Italian team for the Olympics for NBC, he didn't know the players names. So he called them "the short guy", "the tall guy", "the guy with the mustache".
* He was really into the game. When calling a Celtics-Pistons game, after a physical sequence, he said that the Celtics player "was bleeding all over the court".
Here's transcript from an interview, confirming the fire story:
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archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20130821_100000_Morning_Joe
* While broadcasting, he would call Rich Mahorn and Jeff Ruland as McFilthy and McNasty.
* He smoked while broadcasting. One time, he dropped his cigarette on his pants, and screamed "Aagh! I'm on fire."
* When broadcasting the Italian team for the Olympics for NBC, he didn't know the players names. So he called them "the short guy", "the tall guy", "the guy with the mustache".
* He was really into the game. When calling a Celtics-Pistons game, after a physical sequence, he said that the Celtics player "was bleeding all over the court".
Here's transcript from an interview, confirming the fire story:
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archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20130821_100000_Morning_Joe