Ted Darling Bingo

[LeGrosGil]

Ok just saw the post on Jeanerret bingo- let's go back a bit into the past for Darling Ted's favorites:

 

"Perreault swings away at center...gets by one..."

 

"Back to Roberrrrrrrrrt!"

 

"Ohhhhh Crozier!"

 

"And there's a souvenir for a young fan from Lancaster, NY"

 

"SHOOTSIESCORES!!!!"

[Stoner]

Great topic. This is going to be hard.

 

"(Sabre's name)... the reeeeeeebound!"

[spndnchz]

I

 

 

Remember

 

 

Nothing.

[Weave]

Ted Darling was my favorite announcer but I am drawing blanks here. Wow.

[plenzmd1]

Ted Darling was my favorite announcer but I am drawing blanks here. Wow.

Loved Darling..but i too am drawing some blanks bringing his voice to my minds ear for some reason. Gunna search the ineterwebs for some clips now.

 

So little bit of Ted here,not much, but with Roby and just hiarious at the end..I don't remember this...but I was living in Chigago in 88

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-8lGQBYY04

[X. Benedict]

Puck goes over the glass

 

 

.....and that is now in the hands of a happy fan from Angola.

[That Aud Smell]

i think the fact that ted doesn't inspire a laundry list of signature calls has much to do with the fact that his style was based in another era, wherein the play-by-play announcer simply called the game and wasn't expected to act as midway barker/entertainer/franchise promoter.

[Ghost of Dwight Drane]

Puck goes over the glass

 

 

.....and that is now in the hands of a happy fan from Angola.

 

:thumbsup:

 

"Wowie Housley!"

 

"Bar-AAAAAAAAAAAA-so"

[X. Benedict]

i think the fact that ted doesn't inspire a laundry list of signature calls has much to do with the fact that his style was based in another era, wherein the play-by-play announcer simply called the game and wasn't expected to act as midway barker/entertainer/franchise promoter.

Ted Darling was the master of the double spondee....

 

I guess I think of the way he said "Gilbert Perreault" as a double spondee, accenting every syllable.

 

He did the same with

 

"He Shoots, He Scores"...accenting every syllable.

[X. Benedict]

:thumbsup:

 

"Wowie Housley!"

 

That was def. RJ. ..... except Phil would have to score in the second period to get that one, when RJ did second periods and Ted the first and third.

[Ghost of Dwight Drane]

That was def. RJ. ..... except Phil would have to score in the second period to get that one, when RJ did second periods and Ted the first and third.

 

Darling did it I thought.

 

Unless i was too young to know the difference.

[plenzmd1]

K heres a quick question. I know RJ was the radio announcer freom the beginning, but was he only on when there was a TV game and Darling did TV? Seems to me I remember Darling on the radio as well. In the 70's, i would think that less than 20 games per year were on TV..I know it was always a treat when they were on WKBW and we got to stay up and watch.

 

Darling had to do more than 20 games a year right?

[Overeducated Homer]

K heres a quick question. I know RJ was the radio announcer freom the beginning, but was he only on when there was a TV game and Darling did TV? Seems to me I remember Darling on the radio as well. In the 70's, i would think that less than 20 games per year were on TV..I know it was always a treat when they were on WKBW and we got to stay up and watch.

 

Darling had to do more than 20 games a year right?

 

 

Darling was the main voice of the Sabres on TV and radio for most of the 1970s into the 1990s... RJ was first the voice mainly in the International Cable games, and then on the radio... then came Darling's sickness ca. 1992, and RJ took over more and more of the duties... esp after the failed Gurtler experiment.

[Stoner]

Darling was the main voice of the Sabres on TV and radio for most of the 1970s into the 1990s... RJ was first the voice mainly in the International Cable games, and then on the radio... then came Darling's sickness ca. 1992, and RJ took over more and more of the duties... esp after the failed Gurtler experiment.

 

Well, Rick started doing radio in 71-72. Like X. I remember Ted doing the first and third and Rick the second when games weren't on TV circa late 70s / early 80s. I don't think anything changed for Rick during the Gurgler era. He just switched from radio only in 94-95 to TV only in 95-96 and 96-97, then the simulcast kicked in after Pete Weber left.

 

These details are practically lost to history, which is a shame. You'd have to have all of the old media guides to run all this down.

 

Or ask Rick. I have a feeling he'd say, "I have noooooo idea."

[Stoner]

Darling did it I thought.

 

Unless i was too young to know the difference.

 

That was a Jeanneret-ism for sure. That wouldn't have been Ted's style.

[nucci]

i think the fact that ted doesn't inspire a laundry list of signature calls has much to do with the fact that his style was based in another era, wherein the play-by-play announcer simply called the game and wasn't expected to act as midway barker/entertainer/franchise promoter.

I really miss this. I was watching a game on Center Ice recently and while both guys were chatting away someone scored and his words...." oh, and it's in". Growing up I thought all goals were supposed to be "he shoots, he scores"!!!

[Stoner]

Ted Darling was the master of the double spondee....

 

I guess I think of the way he said "Gilbert Perreault" as a double spondee, accenting every syllable.

 

He did the same with

 

"He Shoots, He Scores"...accenting every syllable.

 

I seem to remember Ted adding some syllable in a strange way. "And-ah Cyr over the line..."

[Overeducated Homer]

Well, Rick started doing radio in 71-72. Like X. I remember Ted doing the first and third and Rick the second when games weren't on TV circa late 70s / early 80s. I don't think anything changed for Rick during the Gurgler era. He just switched from radio only in 94-95 to TV only in 95-96 and 96-97, then the simulcast kicked in after Pete Weber left.

 

These details are practically lost to history, which is a shame. You'd have to have all of the old media guides to run all this down.

 

Or ask Rick. I have a feeling he'd say, "I have noooooo idea."

 

 

See, I remember Ted being all three periods on channel 7 and 2, with Pat Hannigan and either Rick Azar or Ed Kilgore.. hardly ever heard RJ on Tv until the 1990s.

[Stoner]

i think the fact that ted doesn't inspire a laundry list of signature calls has much to do with the fact that his style was based in another era, wherein the play-by-play announcer simply called the game and wasn't expected to act as midway barker/entertainer/franchise promoter.

 

But Rick was doing that from the get-go. I have no idea if someone at the Sabres planned the ying and the yang of Darling and Jeanneret, but it was perfect.

[Stoner]

See, I remember Ted being all three periods on channel 7 and 2, with Pat Hannigan and either Rick Azar or Ed Kilgore.. hardly ever heard RJ on Tv until the 1990s.

 

You got it. I think. I'm old, remember.

 

LeGrosGil, hope you don't mind that your thread has been hijacked a bit.

 

I'm still racking my brain for Darling calls.

[X. Benedict]

I seem to remember Ted adding some syllable in a strange way. "And-ah Cyr over the line..."

 

He would do that too. He would hold a syllable like a note until the action was resolved.

 

With Cyr it usually meant everyone sittng in the ends covering their heads. That guy could have nobody between himself and the keeper and put it 20 seats up at 95 mph. :lol:

[Stoner]

God bless Ted. You think about the men who built Sabres hockey and it was almost as much Ted and Rick and Paul Wieland as the Knoxes and Punch and Bert.

 

In Wieland's book he talks about how they started from scratch and had to create an emotional attachment between the fans and the team. One of the things they did was produce those cool playoffs songs like "We're gonna win that Cup."

 

Guess what -- a young man living in Olean in the fall of 1975 used to listen to that song and host Stan Roberts.

 

That man was Terry Pegula.

 

I will spare you my Paul Harvey impression.

 

Again, sorry to the original poster. I am loving this walk down memory lane.

 

Was Ted Darling a "driiiiiive" guy like Mike Emrick?

[Ghost of Dwight Drane]

potpouri

 

Buffalo tags

[That Aud Smell]

But Rick was doing that from the get-go.

we've debated this elsewhere, i think. their styles and personalities differed from the outset, to be sure. but rick's early years were marked by the occasional flourishes that have now become his stock and trade.

 

as one of my favorite bloggers put it when previewing the 2007 playoffs: "If you've never heard him, legendary Sabre play-by-play man Rick Jeanneret calls every Buffalo goal like he's experiencing The Rapture."

 

http://deadspin.com/#!251392/nhl-eastern-conference-playoff-pants-party

 

(will leitch (nee deadspin) married a gal from buffalo. i chatted him up at ulrich's once -- good guy.)

[Overeducated Homer]

God bless Ted. You think about the men who built Sabres hockey and it was almost as much Ted and Rick and Paul Wieland as the Knoxes and Punch and Bert.

 

In Wieland's book he talks about how they started from scratch and had to create an emotional attachment between the fans and the team. One of the things they did was produce those cool playoffs songs like "We're gonna win that Cup."

 

Guess what -- a young man living in Olean in the fall of 1975 used to listen to that song and host Stan Roberts.

 

That man was Terry Pegula.

 

I will spare you my Paul Harvey impression.

 

Again, sorry to the original poster. I am loving this walk down memory lane.

 

Was Ted Darling a "driiiiiive" guy like Mike Emrick?

 

 

memory lane is a nice place...

 

Ted did say "there's a drive!" but he was more of a "SHOOOting" kind of guy