Jim Nantz

Jim Nantz
James William "Jim" Nantz, IIIis an American sportscaster who has worked on telecasts of the National Football League, National Collegiate Athletic AssociationDivision I men's basketball and the PGA Tour for CBS Sports since the 1990s. He has been the NFL announcer on CBS's top play-by-play team since 2004...
deceiving final great swing
That's going to be a deceiving final -- a 25-point swing over the final 11 minutes. The Great Danes were great, indeed, for about 30 minutes.
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Your heart goes out to the viewer. The loyal, passionate golf fan sets his weekend schedule around the coverage, and you've got nothing to show him.
football information television tweak
I think football is a more interesting 'watch' on television than in the arena. Every year, we tweak the information we give fans. We give information you can never get at the stadium.
absolutely enormity shaking
I was absolutely shaking by the enormity of the moment.
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I will never forget April 13, 1986. It was my first Masters, and just as it ended, (CBS analyst) Ken Venturi drove me back to the CBS compound and said, 'Jimmy, you may be lucky enough to broadcast 50 Masters, but you'll never live to see a greater one than the one you saw today.' I think he was right.
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I was kind of out of things to say, to be honest. My teeth were chattering and I had chill bumps up and down my arms, and the moment was almost too big for me.
breaking close england everybody gets good
I give them a pretty good chance, with all New England has to come up with to reconstruct their team. Everybody gets to the breaking point, and I think (the Patriots) are pretty close to that.
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I hope, because of the way the tournament broke, that they are able to sit back and be really proud of what they did . . . and enjoy the ride the rest of the way.
knew listening meant
I really knew he was listening ... It's always been important to me that I knew that some one was listening ... It meant a lot to me.
guess proven quite words
They have proven to be quite meritorious. I guess our words didn't really play well in Peoria.
starting
He's starting to look like 1999 and 2000. Unbeatable.
defense figure mass offense weapons
George, the Panthers' defense is pretty good. Which weapons of mass destruction in the Patriots' offense do you figure will mysteriously disappear?
basketball college mecca
The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.
blessed men just-friends
I'm blessed to have great friends, and there are a lot of men in my life who've been more than just friends.