June 23, 2007
Dawg's Gawd's Knockin' On The Door
It was with great dismay that I read Larry Munson, the fabled radio voice of the Georgia Bulldogs, is only able to handle home games this season. At 84 Larry is horribly afflicted with arthritis, and even making the stadium will apparently be a struggle. The Times-Onion speculated the away games would work him severely, hence the home game compromise.
I cannot explain what Munson means to Dawg fans. His gravelly voice and colloquialisms (anyone inside the red zone was 'Knockin' on the door!') has endeared him to three generations. He just fucking rocked.
I can't match Dax's eloquence (or his brutality), but I'll never forget turning down the TV and turning up Larry on the radio every game (okay, it was out of phase, and Larry always was two seconds before the TV), but Jesus. Lindsay Scott! Lindsay Scott! Lindsay Scott!
As my girlfriend Key Monroe said of Larry, "Some people should really be immortal".
I think that sums it up.
It is the end of an era. I hope they put Buck Belue in the booth to do color. He's got a little of the Munson cadence to him. Munson made a second quarter incompletion against Sanford sound like the marines landing at Omaha Beach.
Posted by: rankin' rob at June 23, 2007 10:30 AM