Clip of Howard King's announcing?
In thinking back before Carl Grapentine took over the public address announcing responsibilities at Michigan Stadium in 2006, Howard King was the man behind the mic for 33 years.
Does anyone out there have an audio or video clip of his announcing? I appreciate Grapentine, but I'll always think of him as the MMB announcer and King as the guy I grew up listening to. I'm getting nostalgic and just need to hear him behind the mic again.
I don't have the patience to look through clip after clip on youtube of game footage to get a great clip of either pregame introductions or postgame announcements.
Thanks in advance if anyone knows of something on the interwebz.
I've got nothing, but this is a good query.
You can hear him briefly during this clip from the 1993 Notre Dame game:
Nothing against Carl, but Howard was the man!!!
Their voices were/are very similar - at least their style of calling the game over the PA is. (Grapentine becomes more animated when he's doing marching-band duty.) The transition was pretty seamless.
"Denard Robinson kept the ball." Kinda sad to think that this is the last year we'll get to hear that over the PA.
But that's part of the charm of college football. "They come and they go, Hobbs. They come and they go."
(I know, that's from a baseball movie, but it applies.)