Gil Santos "retiring"

[Kevin Vahey]

There was a period when Gil was shut out completely in Boston and he
took the Penn State job ( I am guessing mid 80's ) when Dan Davis did
BC and Curt Gowdy and Dale Arnold did the Pats.

Gillette is considered the best for broadcasters in the NFL as the
booth is at the club level but on the road......

The new buildings is what caused Fred Cusick to retire as he just
could not see from the upper levels. He did do AHL games at Lowell for
ATT3 in the late 90's because he could see the ice.

On 1/11/09, Sean Smyth <sean.smyth@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 1/9/09, Howard Glazer <hmglaz@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>> It happens to just about everyone once they reach their 60s
>> or 70s, whether
>> you talk for a living or not. Dick Stockton's work
>> during the baseball
>> playoffs was painful to listen to, and he's definitely
>> lost a step as an NFL
>> play-by-play man too. As with Santos, the voice is still
>> there, but the
>> sharpness isn't.
>
> As much as I can sense Gil has slipped recently, and it breaks my heart to
> say that, as much of it nowadays has to do with broadcast position -- they
> are practically up in Siberia in some of these facilities -- and the
> spotter. A good spotter can save an announcer plenty of times. Age isn't the
> only factor.
>
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> On an unrelated sidenote, Gil's WBZ profile says/said he was the voice of
> Penn State games on the radio -- I'm presuming this was sometime in the
> 1980s. Anyone know exactly when? Any clips floating around in broadcast
> land? Googling didn't provide me much more detail. I'm guessing it was in
> the mid-1980s, because Fran Fisher retired not long before then, and Gil was
> back to doing Boston College games in the late '80s or early '90s.
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