Verne Lundquist, John Ourand and Neil Best

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2018

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Episode 3 of the Sports Media podcast with Richard Deitsch features an extended conversation with Verne Lundquist, the iconic sports broadcaster for CBS and ABC and the voice of some of the most memorable calls in the history of sports broadcasting. After Lundquist, Sports Business Daily media writer John Ourand and Newsday sports media writer Neil Best come on to discuss various topics including the television schedules for the NFL TV networks and Mike Francesa’s return to WFAN. In the podcast, Lundquist discusses calling the Masters again this year including Jordan Spieth’s memorable birdie at No. 16 in the final round; watching SEC Football on CBS from his home, getting nostalgic about missing the SEC, stepping away from the NCAA basketball tournament this year, his current health; filling in for Pat Summerall when Summerall was in rehab; Lundquist’s frustration with always being the No. 2 broadcaster at a network before he was named the lead voice of the SEC on CBS; why the SEC was the greatest assignment he ever received, the art of laying out (being quiet after a great play); why the “Kick Six” Game on Nov. 30, 2013 (Alabama-Auburn) is his greatest CFB broadcast; being influenced as a broadcaster by Ray Scott; calling the Christian Laettner game (Duke-Kenucky, 1992) and talking to Laettner about it 20 years later; the broadcasters he likes today and why; why he loves to listen to Ian Eagle; the memorable story of how Verne met his wife, Nancy, which includes a stop at disco and getting Nancy’s number while she was on a date, and much more. Ourand discusses ESPN’s Monday Night Football schedule and its relationship with the NFL; the potential for Thursday Night Football on FS1, and how ESPN is likely to approach the low viewership for “Get Up!” Best discusses his reporting on radio host Mike Francesa, who is returning to WFAN to once again host a radio show after leaving the station in December. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Dicch and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:05.9	Lou Pellegrino, as always, is my producer.
0:08.8	Got two really great parts of this podcast, I think.
0:11.1	First up is a 71-minute conversation with Vern Lundquist, the legendary sports broadcaster.
0:17.7	And great to catch up with him after he did the Masters, tells a lot of stories on this
0:23.4	podcast, including the greatest story of all, how he went from being at a Dallas discotheque to the
0:30.9	next week to meeting his wife who was on a blind date with somebody else. I think you will
0:36.3	enjoy that as well as other Vern Lundquist stories.
0:39.1	John O'Rand talks about all the different NFL schedules that all the different NFL networks got,
0:43.7	as well as where GetUp is, ESPN's morning show at the moment,
0:47.3	and Neil Best covering all the craziness that has gone down with Mike Francesa,
0:52.0	the New York-based sports talk host. So Vern
0:55.8	Lundquist, John O'Rand, and Neil Best, coming up on the sports media podcast with Richard
1:01.8	Deich. All right, and as I said at the top, we bring on Vern Lundquist, one of my favorite people
1:06.5	on the sports media. His career notes that I mentioned as I introed him are remarkable.
1:13.7	And on a personal note, Vern Lundquist was my second guest on the old Sports Illustrated
1:18.7	Media podcast after Adam Schaefter and Rachel Nichols.
1:22.1	And Vern, I don't know if you know this, but I'm happy to tell you now that we taped
1:25.5	that podcast from a Sports Illustrated
1:28.5	swimsuit closet when I talked to you.
1:31.5	So it was literally bikinis and swimsuits all over the place as I was taping that podcast with you.
1:40.9	Welcome to the, or welcome back to the sports media podcast with Richard Deichmer. It's great to have you here.
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