RIP Keith Jackson

I watched the last game he called but didn't turn up the sound. I was in my mother's room at hospice and though she was already in her life-ending coma I said, Ma, you don't mind if I watch USC-Texas do you? I'll keep the sound down. Maybe wish I had turned it up a little now.
 
RIP, Keith Jackson

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He is so synonymous with college football that I copy his phrases in every game I watch without even thinking about it.
 
He entertained me on many a Saturday afternoon. Would have loved to hear him say Monday night, “And the National Champions are the Alabama Crimson Tide.”
 
He once opened a national broadcast by saying "there's a big ole possum-huntin' moon in the sky". Never be another.
 
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