Alabama radio play-by-play broadcaster Eli Gold did some of his best work Saturday in the last minutes of the Tide’s 21-17 win over LSU.
Some kind fan has put the radio soundtrack with the television pictures for the last 2:30 or so of the game. We’ve got the video, so you can judge for yourself.
My favorite line: “Man, if I didn’t already have gray hair, I would’ve turned pure white-headed by now.”
I’ve always been a big fan of Eli Gold, going back to when he did Birmingham Barons games in the 1980s. A friend told me he thought baseball separates the men from the boys in broadcasting because there’s so much down time to fill. Eli was fabulous when he did the Barons, and he’s just as good doing Alabama football. Fans seem to like him, too, and that’s especially gratifying to see, because when he was hired for the job in 1989, he wasn’t a popular choice with some.
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