Passing: Charlie Jones, veteran sportscaster (LA Times)
From The LA Times:
By Larry Stewart
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Charlie Jones, a veteran sportscaster best known for his pro football play calling in a 38-year network career, died June 12 at his home in La Jolla, CA after suffering a heart attack. He was 77.
The versatile Jones' first network assignment, on Sept. 10, 1960, was calling a game at the Coliseum between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs of the old American Football League for ABC.Jones also contributed extensively to ABC's "Wide World of Sports" before switching to NBC in 1965 after that network picked up the AFL contract.He was a mainstay at NBC through the 1997 NFL season.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jones14-2008jun14,0,4069058.story
Also see this appreciation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbvY3gUSvQs
By Larry Stewart
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Charlie Jones, a veteran sportscaster best known for his pro football play calling in a 38-year network career, died June 12 at his home in La Jolla, CA after suffering a heart attack. He was 77.
The versatile Jones' first network assignment, on Sept. 10, 1960, was calling a game at the Coliseum between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs of the old American Football League for ABC.Jones also contributed extensively to ABC's "Wide World of Sports" before switching to NBC in 1965 after that network picked up the AFL contract.He was a mainstay at NBC through the 1997 NFL season.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jones14-2008jun14,0,4069058.story
Also see this appreciation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbvY3gUSvQs
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