Until MI flopped.

Chills.

Doesn't get any better than that!

Woah Nellie!

Amen brother amen

Most touching moment in sports I've witnessed live.

He was THE GREATEST! HE WILL ALWAYS BE THE VOICE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!

I didn't get to see that back then, this was a real gift to experience here. How could it get better than that broadcasting?

Well said. Definitely one of the GOAT'S of that generation. Broadcasters were so much better back then. Glad I got to grow up and watch sports in that time, before the Joe Bucks of the world came in.

He was a dandy!

Michigan first

Amen

No argument at all he WAS G.O.A.T. simply the best that ever was. He loved our Wolverines.... He said Ann Arbor and the BIG HOUSE was his favorite venue...

Not arguably. He was the best.

My daughter is whoa NELLIE, hail to the victors valiant, hail to the conquering heroes, GO BLUE

Back before ESPN screwed it up. Keith Jackson on ABC and Brent Musberger on CBS. ESPN was showing ultimate frisbee or something.

@@DavGreg, thanks to you and Ray Crawford for speaking the truth. ESPN has made college football too professional-like. There was a wonderful charm to the game when it was broadcast by the old ABC, and Keith Jackson was the voice of autumn. He could make even a defeat enjoyable.

Never the same...

+Chris Foster Most the announcers of the 1970s & 80s were great . Didn't really care for Dick Enberg tho.

Chris Foster, many thanks for that assessment, from a loyal Wolverines fan. Keith could make an 80-0 loss enjoyable. He brought the whole thing together, with the pageantry, the weather, the atmosphere. He revered the band, the cheerleaders, and everyone involved in the festival as much as he lauded the players and coaches. What an enjoyable time that was! RIP Keith, you've made wonderful memories for so many of us!

Keith was the granddaddy of em all.

The Ohio State Buckeyes love playing there,.too!

@@kent266 Then the buckeyes must be masochists because mighty Michigan has an all time series lead in football over the Ohio State U suckeyes.

I bet he said that very early on. How many MI flops did he call?

Well said I agree, we were spoiled.

I was always happy when it was him doing the game instead of the OSU fanboy Brent Musberger.

I agree

Milky

The good news is that he died.

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I agree. We have many figures that did major things to one School, maybe two. But Keith had major calls for pretty much anyone you can think. He is very connected with the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl and the Big 10, especially Michigan, and Nebraska as well. But he called everyone worth of note

I didn't really think of that but or m for sure. For someone off the field to be that impactful is special to say the very least.

Red Barber

Ernie Harwell!

Derek Miller I liked Gary Thorne too!

Keith Jackson wolverines Bruce Martyn red wings George Blaha pistons Mark champion and Jim brantstader lions Ernie Harwell Detroit tigers Doesn’t get any better than that Some of my other favs are buffalo Sabre’s rick Jeanerette Penguins mike Lange (Mario lemeiux era) Vin scully dodgers Brent musberger college football Gus Johnson college basketball football

Derek Miller yep and Al Michaels in football

Contrary to popular belief, Keith Jackson never said "Whoa Nelly until this clip documented it.

@@jamesbowen8960 That's funny, but I heard him say it on numerous occasions.

@@riverraisin1 He says he never said it and said specifically that it was Roy Firestone who hung that on him. I remember when he said it in a commercial as a gag but never ever during a football broadcast.

@@jamesbowen8960 That's not true. I have listened to multiple interviews where he said his great grandfather used to say it. And I have heard him say it in many, many games. KZfaq: Keith Jackson on The Dan Patrick Show (Full Interview) 10/21/16. Where Dan gets the story straight from him.

starts at 720 i believe.l

I might be sacrilegious in this comment, but I think the moment of Keith Jackson that resumes everything you said was the game between Nebraska and Colorado in 1994. The game was big at that moment in the season because it was a #2 vs #3 matchup (Colorado had beaten Michigan, a game called by Jackson as well, with a 75 yard hail mary by Kordell Stewart earlier that season at the Big House) and pretty much a championship game for the Big 8, but Keith had a little pregame moment just outside Memorial Stadium to give emphasis for the 200th sellout in a row in home by the Cornusker fans. How many announcers would give time to find out that this was the 200th sellout in a row? Many would give emphasis to the ranking, some would know about the sellout streak coming from 1962, but only Keith Jackson would take time on the days or weeks before a game, a big game, to make research and give a speech on something done by fans.

Katie by the door, they're not gonna catch em.