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Here's a few more-

 

"That's not boos you're hearing...the fans here in Memorial Auditorium are saying 'Luuuuuuuuuuce'"

 

"I'm sure the gendarmes will assist that fan" (Ted always called security "Gendarmes"- French).

 

"Here'sRoberthe'sgotabreakawaygoinginonGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLL...SHOOTSHIESCORES!!!! Rennnayyyyyy Robairrrre!" (He did sometimes sound like an auctioneer)

 

Unrelated but I remember the first time Ed Kilgore commented on Ch.2 about the Sabres and pronounced it "Reen RoberT".

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Unrelated but I remember the first time Ed Kilgore commented on Ch.2 about the Sabres and pronounced it "Reen RoberT".

nice.

 

more recently, my wife and i howled as kilgore read the copy about how shaq had vamped it up for halloween by dressing as "beyonce", but he read it as "a bee-YONTS" -- he said it that way twice (although the second time he dropped the "a").

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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."

 

 

I think the best description of Montreal announcer Danny Gallivan was he would announce Canadiens' games as if he was calling World War II...

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When I saw the title of the thread my immediate thought was how Ted ALWAYS knew where the fan that caught the puck over the glass was from. It took me a few years to understand this.

 

LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCE, not Fans booing is also stuck in my brain.

 

Like has been posted - a nice walk down memory lane. I knew I couldn't grow up to be Bert, but I sure thought I could grow up to be Ted Darling.

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"Knowing" where the fans that caught the puck was one very memorable thing he did as had been mentioned previously.

 

The other "quirks" of his that always stood out to me were his pronounciation of the word 'schedule' as shhedule (as in shed, not the skedule as in school as most of us pronounce it) and his never dropping a 'g' at the end of a verb. It was always 'skatinG', never 'skatin'.'

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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."

 

Thanks to Wikipedia, they are no longer lost to history:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Buffalo_Sabres_broadcasters

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Puck goes over the glass

 

 

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

 

When I was a kid I was so amazed that he would know where that one fan in thousands was from! Haha True story: As a tribute to Ted, earlier this year I was doing color for an internet broadcast of a local Junior B team. As the puck went over the glass, I proclaimed that it was caught by a "young man from (random elementary school)" Probably the most distinct thing I remember from listening to Sabres' games as a kid.

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