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10/14 2010

Call of the Day: Joe Beninati’s Movie-Guy Goal Calls Will Always Win

Posted by Dan Levy.

This, folks, is why the NFL will eventually start scheduling games every single night of the week. Or somehow, this is Bud Selig’s fault for giving teams way too much time off between the LDS and LCS. Maybe we should blame soccer, too. They’re always good for a few fantastic clips.

Yes, until the NBA starts the regular season (I refuse to make the Call of the Day anything from a pre-season NBA game) and college basketball starts raining down the buzzer beaters and subsequent court stormings, we may be stuck with…random early-season hockey highlights.

Look, I’m happy to link to hockey, and Lord knows the NHL is great with their ability to embed videos (when the actually load). Full disclosure: I had this entire post ready to roll with the clip the NHL put up of the Devils’ game-winner in overtime, but the call was terrible. Why? Because the NHL embedded the clip of the home team…that lost.

If you’re trying to build excitement for your league, don’t put clips up when the announcers sound like their cat just died. If those are the Call of the Day choices…it’s going to be a long winter.

In the NHL’s defense, maybe the Devils can’t afford to hire their own TV announcers right now.

There were six games in the NHL Wednesday night — the only major sport to have regular season games on the schedule — and EVERY GAME was decided by one goal, so rather than slam the NHL for embedding the lame call of a big goal, I thought it made more sense to go to the well I’ll probably go to 20 or 30 times this year.

The clip above is the game-winning power play goal in Washington. God speed, Joe Beninati and your raspy, “in a world, where goals are scored” movie-man goal calls. I’d be shocked if Beninati’s name isn’t one of the biggest on our Tag cloud by mid-season. Unless the Bruins are playing and Jack Edwards goes predictably insane.

As much as I wish I were watching baseball last night (or football or college basketball or soccer or golf or…) it’s good to have you back, hockey.

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Posted on October 14, 2010 at 7:01AM

 

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  1. Kevin McGuire
    10/14 2010

    Yeah, if Beninati is going to be a popular tag on this site, that isnot good news in my book. I have a tendency to not watch games he announces when it is the only way I can watch my team. To each his own I suppose.

  2. Dan Levy
    10/14 2010

    He’s wonderful in his ridiculousness. Most good hockey announcers are.

  3. Jordan Owen
    10/14 2010

    Au contraire re:Vernors

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