{"id":77158,"date":"2018-01-15T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T13:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77158"},"modified":"2018-01-15T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T13:58:18","slug":"sports-broadcaster-keith-jackson-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77158","title":{"rendered":"Sports Broadcaster Keith Jackson passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77159\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77159\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Keith-Jackson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77159\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Devtun sends us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/01\/15\/578071492\/whoa-nelly-keith-jackson-voice-of-college-football-dies-at-89\">the sad news<\/a> that iconic sportscaster, Keith Jackson has passed at the age of 89. He was known for his colorful expressions, &#8220;Whoa, Nellie!&#8221; was probably his most famous proclamation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He began calling college football games for ABC Sports when it acquired the broadcast rights for NCAA football in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>He also worked NFL and NBA games, World Series, Winter and Summer Olympics and auto racing. For the job, he traveled to 31 countries for ABC&#8217;s Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson announced he would retire from college football play-by-play after the 1998 season but ended up continuing with ABC Sports, in 1999. He retired for good in May 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keith_Jackson\">Wikipedia<\/a>, he was also a veteran, enlisting in the Marine Corp and working as a mechanic. He used his GI Bill to attend Washington State University where he began his broadcasting career in 1952.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devtun sends us the sad news that iconic sportscaster, Keith Jackson has passed at the age &hellip; <a title=\"Sports Broadcaster Keith Jackson passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77158\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sports Broadcaster Keith Jackson passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}