One of my fondest memories of Eli Gold calling Bama games is the way Eli would pronounce Cornelius Bennett’s name every time Biscuit would make a tackle. “Tackle made by ole #97 Cooooorrrr-neeeeeeellllll-yusss Bennett….. 🤣
Absolutely. I just watched a video of Eli ringing the bell in the cancer ward…his last treatment and beating it! I’m so glad he’s back this year. I have sure missed hearing him. 😂 ROLL TIDE ROLL!!🐘🐘🐘
But if Teague hadn't done the impossible and Miami kept long gain or TD, Miami would've just declined the penalty and kept the big play. Instead, they had to take measley give yards.
Long time Crimson Tide fan here (+40 years) and I have to agree with Adam. Keith Jackson is the "yardstick" by which ALL other announcers are judged by. Eli is however the best voice for a single team in all of college football currently in my humble opinion.
I listened to the game from right bout the missed fg all the way to the TD throw in my SUV. I much rather heard Eli Gold saying we won or lost than than announcers. When I heard him said TD Alabama I screamed so load my wife came out the house screaming I better be dying cuz our son was. I drank a bottle of whiskey to calm my nerves.
Eli Gold is THE BEST!!! Listening to him call a game is just like watching it. He describes every detail so well you can picture in your mind as he is talking. LOVE him!!!
Chills. I'm sitting here with goosebumps hearing those calls and remembering where I was on every single play. Do yourself a favor: Listen to these calls again but this time close your eyes. Experience the moment like Bama fans did sitting next to their radio. Go from scared and to disbelieving and overjoyed in just seconds. We are so lucky to be Alabama fans, y'all.
Pure Gold! Eli, you are one of the greats in broadcasting. I'm surprised with all the football you've done, you could come down to just 5 of your favorites. #1 still gives me chills. Roll Tide!
As much as I love Alabama radio--possibly the greatest radio call I will ever hear and possibly the last memory I'll let go off when I leave this earth is the ESPN radio call of the final play of the 2018 championship game.
You know it’s a big play when Phil is unable to hide his fandom 😂 Alabama is better than everybody all the way down to the radio guy. Eli is the best voice in CFB hands down.
Eli, your call of George Teague’s pick six in the Sugar Bowl still gives me goosebumps to this day. INTERCEPTED TEAGUE, INTERCEPTED TEAGUE - HE CUTS LEFT, TOUCHDOWN, TOUCHDOWN!!
J L F III that was the game. I actually went into the game pulling against Alabama. I lived in Hoover my entire family Alabama fans a lot of my friends were Auburn fans. Me and my stepdad made a bet for like $5 No point spread just winner. All the hype around Miami I thought for sure I was going to have five more dollars,Well we know how that turned out. After all this time when I look back now I would have never doubted Alabama was going to win that game.
I don't remember that game because at the time I wasn't even 1 year Old yet, but the MVP of that game Derrick Lassic is from my home town and naturally he was what we all heard about in Pop Warner "he used to paly on these fields" and such so in part that game and that award is why I became an Alabama fan even all the way up in New York. He is also responsible for creating a big pocket of Crimson Tide fans in the area
I’m watching this on Friday, October 7, 2022….and I sure do miss hearing this man call Alabama football. I’ve heard he is sick. So Eli, if you’re reading this…get well soon, your Alabama family misses you and your voice. Please come back!😊
I have taken to turning the volume down on TV, cranking up the laptop and finding the Bama radio broadcast so I can watch the game but still hear Eli Gold. I have kids who have never even been to Alabama (we live in CT now) and they treasure his calls almost as much as I do. Doing my best to raise 'em right.
Thanks for the memories Eli and ACT..used to watch the games with the volume down and Eli on the radio back in the day...good times...nobody did/does it better. RTR
i love me some Eli - you've made some GREAT calls - but my all-time favorite is Paul Kennedy's "The Kick" Van Tiffin Iron Bowl call ... i had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Kennedy at a leadership conference on campus at UA; super nice guy .... we appreciate all of the calls made throughout the years!!
Everytime I see that throw from Tua against Georgia i get cold chills i was watching this game with a group of huge Georgia fans i live in Georgia born here but when i was ten years old we moved to Alabama i just fell right into being a huge Alabama fan came in the Bear Bryant era I eventually moved back to Georgia but the Alabama Crimson Tide came with me anyway I was haggled all through out this game Georgia was beating Alabama by all rights I wish yall could have seen the look on the faces of that Georgia crowd some were crying some were just sitting In complete shock some was just down right mad and cussing i got up never said a word as i walked out i said in a very boastful but humble tone ROLL TIDE ROLL
That voice transports me to October Saturdays when there’s no humidity and cloudless azure blue skies with the ratta-tat-tat of distant snare drums. Hurry up October.
I will never forget the penn state Alabama game you called. I was listening while I was supposed to be helping my dad. He let it slide cause how excited I was. He knew how much I love Alabama football even though he doesn’t love it the way I do. Awesome memories
I’ll never forget the Yeldon play. My older brother and his wife had some friends over for a party and I came over and me and him were going to watch the game and the rest of the folks over weren’t really sports fans so they weren’t really paying attention to the game. As the game went on more and more of the guests came in to the den to see what we were yelling at and by the last few minutes of the 4th quarter everyone in the house was glued to the TV. When Yeldon scored the TD me and my brother were literally jumping up and down hugging and yelling and after a bit we noticed everyone was looking at us like we were insane. After a couple minutes I turned to the party guests, most of whom I had just met, and calmly told them to enjoy the rest of the party and went home 😆
Back when I was growing up, we would watch Alabama play on the TV with the volume down, and the good ole radio turned on listening to Eli call the game. Great times!!!
Roll Tide ALWAYS and forever... Thank you Eli for all the memories...I taught your daughter when she was at Vestavia Elem. Central.... I was also the main carpool lady..loved seeing your Gold Cadillac when you picked her up... years ago.
I was looking to see how many and who from Alabama are actively playing in the NFL and saw Marcell Darius was playing and wanted to see his pic 6 and hear Eli calling it. It is one of my favorite all time plays Alabama made and I loved and miss Eli calling plays. His TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA was classic . Whether it was from the 4th turn at Darlington or the booth at Bryant Denny you were the best voice there was. Thanks Eli for a fantastic job .
I got to grow up listening to Eli throughout the vears, the man is a legend in my book. It's so funny to me that he's from Boston but doesn't have that bostonian accent. In fact I can't place his accent, it's distinct and you know exactly who's speaking when you hear it.
I have very few things that I remember vividly. Driving home from my friends house my senior year cause my parents told me it was too late and I needed to come home I was listening to overtime of the national championship on the radio. I was about halfway home when I heard “TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA DEVONTA SMITH TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA” everything else from that call blacks out as I was screaming in joy for the rest of the drive home
I was in a bar in Knoxville for Rocky Block covered head to toe in Crimson and white and thought I was gonna have to fight my way out of the bar at the end of that game
Scott Ellis LMFAO!!! You damn right!!! They never accept the honest facts that they're never going to be better than Alabama!!! I literally want to vomit every time I hear Tammy on Finebaum with that crackhead accent! I bet Phyllis from Mulga has a better house than Tammy lol.
Eli I wish you the very best recovery possible you are a Crimson Tide icon like it or not we love you and we wish you the very best recovery and looking forward to hearing your voice scream out touchdown Alabama
Eli Gold is the Coach Saban of playcallers…When u hear his voice on the radio, football season has started…I will literally watch the tv and turn up the radio just to hear him call it…RTR
#5 I remember watching that play from the basement of my dorm. It was like a wave: the guys in the first row were the first to realize what had just happened, then it proceeded back as row after row understood from the reaction. Everyone went nuts. Meanwhile, back home my mom (who had not been a college football fan before I went to Bama) walked outside because she could not bear to watch us lose like that. When my dad came out and told her the kick had been blocked, she at first thought he was just teasing her.
I first met Eli when he was doing the radio broadcast of Birmingham Bulls hockey in the early 80s. A friend was working the VIP parking at the civic center and I would go down and hangout until the end of the first period and then we could get in to see the game. We would sit directly in front of the radio booth and fetch beers and hot dogs for Eli for the rest of the game. Boy could he drink beer.
Being in New Orleans at a bar on that Bama LSU play was crazy because we were losing the whole game!!! I will say #2 was my favorite though I was shaking and cussing right before the kick! Lol
Back in the day, my friends and I would put the Alabama game on TV (CBS Sports, ABC Sports, ESPN, etc.) but turn down the TV volume switch. Instead, it was all Eli Gold on AM radio in Montgomery. This went back to the days of Gene Stallings, if not before.
I think it was Musberger that forewarned in the beginning of the Tenn game about the kickers trajectory. He said to watch how it might effect the game later on
I listened to the game from right bout the missed fg all the way to the TD throw in my SUV. I much rather heard Eli Gold saying we won or lost than than announcers. When I heard him said TD Alabama I screamed so load my wife came out the house screaming I better be dying cuz our son was. I drank a bottle of whiskey to calm my nerves.
