Al McCoy Appreciation Thread
Al McCoy Appreciation Thread
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I grew up listening to Al McCoy. I've been through the highs and lows of the Suns with him. Here's the place to show your appreciation for good ol' Al McCoy. I understand he's a really nice guy on top of it all. I wish he was still doing simulcasts instead of Steve Alpert.
Al McCoy Retrospective:
http://www.nba.com/video/teams/suns/201 ... v-1857108/
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I've actually never heard Al McCoy broadcast a game before.
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For shame.Charlie Smithy! wrote:I've actually never heard Al McCoy broadcast a game before.
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He's shockingly short. Of course the massive belt buckle he was wearing when I got his autograph made up for that.
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Al is on a very short lost of broadcasters who are synonymous with their team's public face. You just can't think about the Suns without getting around to Al if you've spent any extended period of time living here because he's been doing their games since 1972! (my youth was spent listening to Al McCoy broadcast the Suns and Vin Scully broadcast the Dodgers on KTAR. That's about as good as it gets)
And while he has done games for the Phoenix Giants, Phoenix Roadrunners, Arizona Diamondbacks and Arizona State Sun Devils, He'll always be a Phoenix Sun.
I just miss the simulcasts - they never have been able to get a TV team that has done the job as well as Al on the radio.
And while he has done games for the Phoenix Giants, Phoenix Roadrunners, Arizona Diamondbacks and Arizona State Sun Devils, He'll always be a Phoenix Sun.
I just miss the simulcasts - they never have been able to get a TV team that has done the job as well as Al on the radio.
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Re: Al McCoy Appreciation Thread
when i was living in phoenix i used to turn on the TV and mute the sound and then listen to the radio with Al McCoy... he too symbolized the suns for me, even more so than KJ/Hornacek/Barkley/Nash...
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I use to do the same thing, especially when it was Gary bender and Keith Erickson. Bender was ok but Erickson drove me crazy. I was happy to listen to am radio with an annoying buzz just to hear Al.
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when was the last time they let him do tv... '94? god miss the old channel 45 days w/ Al.
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I think he was still doing TV in at least 2004.
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I remember hearing on the radio doing Phoenix Giants games in the mid-60s. And also spinning discs as a weekend jockey on the old Top-40 AM radio station, KRUX.
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You win, LL. Before my time.LazarusLong wrote:I remember hearing on the radio doing Phoenix Giants games in the mid-60s. And also spinning discs as a weekend jockey on the old Top-40 AM radio station, KRUX.
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I don't know if you can call that winning Bone.
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it's winning, if the prize is "old fart, emeritus" ...
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