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HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING!
 HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING!
 HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING!
 HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! 
 HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! 
 HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING!
 HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! HE"S FINALLY RETIRING! 

    re .2
    
    "ridance" is spelled riddance.
    
    You must be one of those dumb Carolina people we read about!
    
    Bob V.
    

    Johnny Most was probably the worst announcer in the history of sports.
    Only blind Celtic fans enjoyed his butchering of the game.  At first
    I thought Mike was announcing that Most had died - at least he'll
    be around to do commercials for lung machines...
    
    I'm sure they'll have a Johnny Most day, and retire his lungs and
    hang them from the rafters or something.
    
    Thankfully this pompous ass, as Mr. Knorr perfectly described him,
    is finally ending his 'career' as a head in the butt homer of an
    announcer.
    
    JD

 Ah you guys are just jealous that your teams didn't/don't have a guy like
 Johnny.....

 mike

    Mike,
    
    Why be jealous of a araogant, obnoxious, no-knowthing?  My dead
    grandmother knows more about hoop than Johnny Most ever has.  The
    guy has a woodie whenever Bird touches the ball.  He's the most
    biased announcer ever, he's stupid, he's demeaning, obnoxious and
    a lusch and a letch.  
    
    JD

 but he's an original and he's ours JD and that's all that matters...And
 please spare me the no nothing jive. I mean for the length of time he was
 there, through absorbtion he'd have to a clue.....and where else could you
 get an announcer who sounded like he gargled with razor blades? The man's
 a legend and as much a part of the Celtics as ole Red.....

 mike

    JD, but how do you really feel?  Don't hold back now ;-)
    
    Mike

    re: lung machine
    
    Unfortunately, Johnny has taken-up smoking again.  As an ex-smoker (9+
    months now), I can understand a life-long smoker's tendancy to go back
    to them, even after serious illnesses.  Hell, even after being
    smoke-free for the longest period of my life since my teens, I still
    wound up last week with one of the worst flus ever, and my lungs right
    now are barely resisting the pneumonia the doc has warned me about. 
    And I quit smoking for my health?  That's what I keep tellin'
    myself.........  :-)
    
    As much as I didn't care for Johnny as a game announcer, he sure is a
    pretty funny guy on morning radio (WCGY).
    
    Hawk

I've always enjoyed the *character* that is Johnny Most.

Sure he was a homer, sure he was as biased as the day is long, sure
he thought that everyone was out to get the Celts...

BUT, in this day of plastic Dick Enberg-Dan Dierdork announcers
Johnny Most has *style*.  It may be a style you disagree with, but
it was there nonetheless, and it was unique.

To listen to a Celts game with Johnny doing the call was an experience
for a fan never to forget.  Whether you hate the Celts or love them,
you can't take away the uniqueness of Johnny Most, any more than you
can take Rizzuto away from the Yankees.

I'd rather listen to Johnny, with all his foibles, any day, instead of
having to listen to people like Enberg, and their endless drivel.....


We'll miss ya Johnny!  (and so will Jake O'Donnell),
'Saw

    I like the Celtics but have to side with the "good riddance" crowd on
    this one.  Reason: way back when I was a fifth grader attending my
    first Celtics game, my brother and I were outside a Boston Garden men's
    room when down the corridor walks Most.  My brother asked Most for his
    autograph, and got refused, with an obscenity to boot.  Haven't felt the
    same about the guy since...
    
    
    py

re Paul Y:

	Ah, the classic W.C Fields syndrome.....;^)

	"Get outta here, kid, ya bother me..."

'Saw

Scary, scary thought:

	Johnny Most doing commercials for:


	Life Call:


		I've fallen, and I'm fiddling and diddlin' but
		I can't get up and Oh, OH, Jake O'Donnell didn't
		call the foul, he did-n't call the foul on the
		guy who knocked me over.....

'Saw

    
    Re .12
    
    That's funny, I met the man in person once in a furniture store
    in Nashua, back when I was a teen. He was real nice to me and my dad.
    Maybe it was because there were only four of us there including
    the owner. I thought he looked like death warmed over! As far as 
    his announcing goes, personally I thought it a bit much but it sure
    is damned entertaining. Most people I know wind up imitating the
    guy and getting a good laugh out of it. He has said some classic
    things.
    
    
    
    
    Steve 

       Too many people take the guy much too seriously.
                                      Denny

 I also had no problems getting an autograph from him and this is while
 he was working a game. Perhaps the fact that they were blowing Denver
 out by 35 bigones had something to do with it. What's even more amazing
 it was '79 and the Celts were lucky to win that year never mind blow some
 one out...

 mike

    
    An original, but never thought he was that funny or entertaining...
    
    glenn
    

    only a true Celtics fan mourns the retirement of Johnny Most.  During
    that long dynasty as the best in the NBA, Most was the voice of the
    Most. Non-Celtic fans hate to admit it, but they hated Most because he
    embodied the Celtics spirit - play to win, give no ground, the world is
    against us - all the stuff Red taught the Celtics.  Now, the franchise
    is just a business for a large conglom, and we will never see the likes 
    of the Celtics again, and their voice will never be heard.  I wonder
    what they'll do for Chick Hearn when he goes, bless him with
    sainthood?tk

    I'll sort of miss him, especially when the Pistons elimintate the
    Celtics again... but I still would take Dave Zinkoff (ok, not
    the same job, but close enough) any day....
    
    

    
     People who don't think Most was entertaining have never watched
    the game on television and listened to Most on the radio simult-
    aneously. 

    Maybe he could still smoke if he stopped using Drano for mouthwash.

    re .21
    Not true... you'd have to be a diehard Celtics fan to enjoy it.
    Unless they were losing.  Hearing how every opponent should
    be thrown in jail or is whining or whatever gets old after
    a while if you just want to follow a game...

    Actually I should be grateful to Johnny.  During my 15+ year stint in
    New England every time I contemplated becoming a Celtics fan I'd just
    tune in Most.
    
    That'd cure me for a half decade or so ...
    
    
    - ACC Chris

    There's a place for homer announcers.  No doubt, Most was a homer.  But
    he brought me back to basketball, after I'd gotten thoroughly torqued
    at the treatment Purdue b-ball gave their student body.
    
    I'll miss the gravel voice - it was a quick and sure-fire way to make
    sure I'd picked up the game I wanted when driving at night.  I'll miss
    the boosterism - it made me feel like this was *my* team.  (Took a
    while to get used to, I'll admit.)  Most of all, I'll miss the
    uniqueness, as the world gets a little more bland.
    
    A&W

    
    Most is a homer, but I sill enjoyed him. Quit a few of the players he
    attacked even claim they got to like the guy.
    
    
    The one thing you have to remember about the guy comes out of his own
    mouth.............
    
    He was asked about why he acted like he did, and he said when the
    Celtics were being beat, he felt like someone was taking something from
    him. He honestly feels that he was, is, and always will be a Celtic.
    
    
    
    Lou
    

    I also remember an interview someone had with him back a few years
    ago.  The interviewer said that many people commented that watching
    a game while listening to Most was like there were 2 different games
    going on.
    
    Most said, "Well, sometimes the game gets really slow, and there's
    not much to comment on, so I add a little drama to it."  (or words
    to that effect.)
    
    Lee

    Farewell Johnny, you gravely-voiced, craven-pandring (tm), blatant,
    arrogant son of a homer !!!!!
    
    I'll miss you the way I'd miss jock itch ....
    
    Now if the C-minus' cain ax Cousy, they may be bale to make the jump up
    to the level of marginal mediocrity ....
    
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    .... but I wonder who will I listen to now to get my anti-Celtic blood
    stirred ???
    
    

>    .... but I wonder who will I listen to now to get my anti-Celtic blood
>    stirred ???
    
 
 See Doc, I knew you'd miss him...  ;^) just read the Celtics' notesfile
 hell I'm a fan and I dropped out of that file cause it got my blood boiling...

 mike   

    Geez, this is almost as good as the discussion going on today in Celts!
    But nobody here has threatened anyone else with bodily harm yet...
    Guess you guys have more experience in diametrically opposed
    viewpoints..  Anyway, I'll miss Johnny, big time...  I'll never forget
    working my way through college hearing the playoff game against the
    Sixers, when he went into his "dog whistle" voice.  And I still get
    chills every time I hear "Havlichek stole the ball"...  He was a
    caharacter, and yes, he did "call 'em as he sees 'em", but it was great
    for a loyal C's fan to have someone in your corner, yelling against the
    indignities of the zebras and McNasties of the world that would attempt
    to usurp the rightful place of the Celtics on top of the NBA heap...
    
    An era has died...
    
    ML

    Who got threatened with bodily harm?  Probably Dock.......  :-)
    
    Hawk

      Hi,
    
        The Celtics aren't even my favorite team and I think Most
        is great!  His announcing to me is analogous to 'humor by
        exageration.
    
        And he also didn't dislike everybody that wasn't wearing
        Celtics green.  I remember a few years back when the Bucks
        (my favorite team) were getting blown out in Game 4 of
        a playoffs sweep, Most said that Moncrief was one of the 
        classiest guys in sports and had a bigger heart than the
        whole arena in Milwaukee.
    
                                            Tony

    
    	Johnny had alot of nice things to say about alot of different
    player's, he just thought the Celt's walked on water and no one
    could tell him different! If you don't like the Celt's all you 
    hear from the man is his blatant bias and not the complements 
    for other teams/coaches/players that were quite prevelant during
    his broadcast.
    
    
    
    Steve

    I see that I'm going to have to take my objective self over to the
    Celtwitsa notesfile ... heh heh heh

    
    Doc, you better be ready over in that file! Bring your boxing gloves!
    People are actually threatening broken bones or worse! 8^))))
    
    
    
    Steve

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    Chick Hearn is Deity. Dave Zinkoff is a true legend ... 
    
    Johnny Least ???
    
    Heh heh heh ... the man is a homer, a craven panderer, and sounded like
    gargled with Draino, and chased it with 195-proof grain alcohol.
    
    In short, if that was announcing .... the C-minus' will be better
    without him.
    
    The only thing I'll miss is his ability to get my Anti-Celtic blood
    flowing with his crapola. Oh well ... as Mr Spock said in Star Trek,
    there are always alternatives ....
    
    Now, why don't you Greenie fans finish the job and fire Bob Loosy
    (Cousy) ?
    
    Then you'll make the quantum leap UP to mediocrity ????
    
    Tee hee hee ....
    
    Dr Midnight
    

    Brother Mike in .0 is 100% correct ... it indeed is sad that such a
    wonderful announcer has decided to hang it up ... Johnny M has probably
    forgotten more about basketball than the entire collective wisdom
    displayed in the negative replies to this topic ...
    
    -- Jim Bob

 Yo Brother Jim Bob, I just heard last night that he's doing a pre-game gig
 on the sportschannel. Including memories from his past, what to look for 
 in the game tonight and favorite nicknames. Guess I'll have to start watching
 the pre-game show now too!!

 mike