Happy Trails To The Great Verne Lundquist…
Verne Lundquist, whose voice has filled living rooms and bars all over the country on every fall Saturday over the last 17 years as the lead college football voice of CBS, called his final game.
We’ll miss you Uncle Verne! -Bobby Ellerbee
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Great announcer
Thank YOU Verne.
Watched Verne back in the day as the lead sports anchor at WFAA-TV in the DFW market. He was also the radio play-by-play voice of the Dallas Cowboys before he went to work for CBS.
See you in March, Verne. Class act.
Verne was the sportscaster at WFAA-TV when I worked at their FM station in 1972. It seems strange to keep seeing him on TV nearly 50 years later.
Finally … his exit was way over-done over too many “final” games. And that was the FB FB (Facebook feeback). His yeoman’s duty was fine, for sure, but not legendary as was too often repeated. Chris Schenkel probably is / was the definitive legendary college football play-by-play man, and a sports television pioneer, too. Verne’s longevity in the booth probably IS remarkable.