"GET UP!!" Its fact, no Boston play by play
announcer is more beloved by his fans than Jack Edwards, and while there is not
arguing, he is more biased than well anyone in the sports broadcasting business
Jack Edwards is a legend and will always be remembered as one of the greatest
personalities in Boston sports history.
Born on March 24th 1957, the now 56 year old sportscaster
began his sports casting career in his late twenties taking scattered play by
play gigs with the UNH hockey team. As time went on Edwards joined the team at
ABC's Wide World of Sports before moving on to cover Olympic skiing in the 1988
Winter Games.
"To me, every game has a dramatic story," Edwards
said when asked to return to UNH and give an interview "Sometimes it's
over in the first act, and other times it's going to go down to the last two or
three lines. And what makes it more fascinating to me is this: the more you
know about sports, the more you realize you can't possibly have any idea of
what's going to happen next. Most of the time, there's a bit of mystery going
into the theater. And who knows what's going to happen in the next two or three
hours when you go into an arena?"
Nevertheless while every game may tell a story, Edwards
bounced around networks and sports for the majority of the next 15 years.
Little League Baseball, MLS Soccer, FIFA World Cup action, even sumo wrestling
were all sports that Edwards called his
at one point. Yet it was in soccer that he really made a name for himself. From
the year 2000 to the one 2 years later, Edwards was ESPN's lead soccer
announcer calling both MLS and international games as often as 5 days a week.
And while his weekly gigs with the MLS certainly brought in the big bucks, it
was one specific call of one specific game in the one specific sport
that made
him so great......
