In 5 Minutes, Larry Had Me Depressed

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We’re so close, scamps. I can feel the hate for other teams brewing, and the joy for an approaching season is getting the homerism to peak form. Excited is an understatement…to get the froth bubbling a little bit more, here’s some testimony about the greatest to ever do it, Larry Munson.

https://twitter.com/powelljohnt/status/1824805973229294021?s=46

Go Dawgs!

9 thoughts on “In 5 Minutes, Larry Had Me Depressed”

  2. With Larry every game was a dramatic play. The players and coaches performed it. Larry narrated the story. And we believed every word because he sincerely meant each and every one of them. Some were tragedies. Others were tales of woe and want. A few were tales of a glorious victory against all odds or over an objectively superior opponent. Win or lose what came to mean the most was that soon enough another chapter would unfold, but we’ll never hear it told way Larry would have. Bulldog nation has had its share, but on November 20th, 2011 it suffered its greatest loss.

  3. Larry was the voice of Vandy sports for 20 years before coming to GA.

    He had a TV fishing show in Tenn. and it was hard to get him to come.

    Thank goodness he did.

    He would come through the dressing room every Thur. of a home game. He always stopped in the freshman section just to say Hi.

    He did not have to do that. Just a good man.

    • He also called the 1985 Illinois-Army Peach Bowl game on WSB radio! Incredibly miserable day and game!!!

  5. I would always take a transistor radio to the games just to hear him. I was at the Lindsey Scott game, but without my radio, got a bourbon bath when he scored. Greatest game ever, until we won the Championships with the Mail Man.

  6. So many great memories of Larry. It’ll never get old hearing his calls. Glad he got to call at least one N.C. Transistor radio’s became headphones all to share the day with Larry the GOAT college sports announcer.

    • I had a Georgia hat with a built-in AM radio that I’d use to listen to Larry. Met him in Dallas for the Cotton Bowl (he was moaning about Hoage and “those miserable knees” and whether or not he could play. Wish I’d asked him to autograph the hat.

  7. Can you imagine Munson calling Kelee Ringo’s pick 6 that buried Bama? The emotion and excitement that he would have had? Rest in peace, Larry.

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