Vern Lundquist played the final hole of the 2024 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday, ending his career as an acclaimed broadcaster in style. Lundquist called his 40th and final Masters on CBS Sports over the weekend, which was planned as the final event of a career that began in part as the radio voice of the Dallas Cowboys.
Lundquist's departure partially overshadowed a one-sided event won by top-ranked Scottie Scheffler and with Jim Nantz and Tiger Woods paying tribute during the final afternoon's play at Augusta.
“Verne announced in 2018 “ Every play, Nantz said during Sunday's broadcast. “I would like to apply to you the last sentence of the book you wrote Verne: Thank you, in my words, thank you for the memories. Your voice was a beautiful instrument. For all. Thank you for the wonderful soundtrack of our lives. “
March 20, 2014. Buffalo, New York, USA.Sportscaster Vern Lundquist shines in the men's second half
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Woods' words of gratitude to Lundquist became a bit of an internet meme. A similarly lauded handshake between the golfer and the broadcaster saw the broadcaster blocked by a tree with only his arms showing.
Long before becoming a mainstay at Augusta, Lundquist appeared at Pokes games on the Cowboys Radio Network from 1969 to 1983. Her most famous call as Cowboys announcer came the following season, although Lundquist served as the team's Super Bowl voiceover in 1977-78. He called tight end Jackie Smith “the sickest man in America” after he dropped a critical pass that could have been a touchdown in a 35-31 loss to Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XIII. called.
In addition to his duties with the Cowboys, Lundquist left his mark on Texas sports broadcasting as a sports anchor for WFAA in Dallas and KTBC in Austin. He would parlay that local success into a high-profile national career, primarily working for his CBS.
Lundquist is perhaps best known to modern audiences as the network's primary play-by-play man for the weekly SEC Game of the Week, the annual Army-Navy game, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and the Winter Olympics.
His recent notable calls include George Mason's upset win over Connecticut on the hardwood in the 2006 Elite Eight (“George, the dream is alive!”) and the 2013 Iron These include the Auburn running back who missed Alabama's field goal in the bowl (“Unanswer”). prayer! “).
