"I wanna tell you something, somebody up there is on our side!" ('76 Finals)
"Shazam!"
"Swish-a-roo for two"
"Heartbreak Hotel!"
"Wham Bam Slam"
"Zing go the strings"
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 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.
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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...
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.
"There are 3 rules I live by: never get less than 12 hours sleep, never play cards with a guy with the same first name as a city & never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Everything else is cream cheese."
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.
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.
