Kevin Harlan Is As Good As Anyone In Football | Hour 2
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It's second down, 14-31 of the Giants. It's a shotgun snap to the Ram quarterback. Stafford sets, side-on throw, leaping catch, 20, down the middle, 10, pass mark, 5, Adams, touchdown! What a throw and what a catch! 31-yard touchdown for the Rams who go up early late first quarter on the Giants.
This guy is as good as there is in the game. As good as there has ever been. He does not come to us from an office. Of course, he comes to us from a study. This is exactly
where it
is. that Kevin Harlan should join us from. More than 40 years NFL, NBA, as good a play-by-play guy as there is, enthusiasm unmatched, the NFL voice for Westwood One's Monday Night Football coverage. Kevin, I'd like to thank you for being on the show, and I'd also like to try something here with you off the top. I wonder if you could just tell us how you would ask somebody in the house to go get you coffee in your normal voice and then do it the way that you would do it on Westwood One. I don't know what your normal voice sounds like, really.
Well, my wife is in the next room here. I go, honey, would you mind getting me a piece of meatloaf? And, you know, maybe it'd be like that or around the grandkids. But if I were in the booth and Kurt Warner was over there by the buffet table, I'd say,
come on, Warner, give me some meatloaf.
You know, we could go back and forth. Isn't it amazing that I've been able to hold on to a job? You said 40 years. I hadn't really thought about that, to hold on to a job like that with all the... Looking at that clip, you think that guy should not be broadcasting a game. He should be in some kind of institution of some sort, because clearly there's a problem. But when you do a game, you kind of lose yourself in the game. And since these things, since my employers... have decided this is a good idea at CBS and at Westwood one. And before TNT and now at Amazon, I didn't really know what I looked like. And I can only imagine over those 39 previous years, they probably thought he's either nuts or like, you know, we need a boost.
And so I always, I cringe when I see these things pop up, I bet my companies know I don't like them. But that's kind of the world we're in right now. So I don't have much of a choice.
I was going
to
ask you if you liked watching yourself there or if it
made you
self-conscious.
Do you? Do you like watching yourself? Well, no, no,
I can't. No, I can't. I can't do it. But your enthusiasm there is so infectious. Like, how is it that you're looking at that and saying, I don't like how I look there when you're meeting the moment. And after 40 years, you're still meeting the moment. Like, that enthusiasm is not rehearsed. It's not practiced. you're losing yourself it's it's why you're so it's one of the reasons you're so great because you match the enthusiasm of the customer
well you're I appreciate words coming from you that means a lot and I know you and Jonathan and Greg all feel kind of the same way in that and that when you're doing it writing a story doing the show producing the show whatever it might be as you're going through it, you kind of lose yourself in the broadcast. And I think if you're distracted or you're worried about the camera, which I never even think about it being there, but if you go through all those different things, you probably lose the essence of why you're trying to do what you're trying to do. You're so into the game, you're not thinking about how you look when you're doing the game. But now that I see when they post these things up there how I look, I'm embarrassed.
But I can't change now at this stage. I mean, it's kind of... It's kind of what I'm doing, but if I were a younger man, maybe starting out, I'd probably think of a way to tone it down. I am a fan, like the three of you are. We wouldn't get into the business if we weren't fans of sports and the people that play them and the people that coach them. And I guess I'm kind of lost in that world and schemes and substitutions and why they're doing it and why they're not succeeding or are succeeding.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:47
2
How did Kevin Harlan first fall in love with broadcasting?
4:47–6:33
3
What does Kevin’s “normal voice” sound like compared to his on‑air call?
6:33–12:48
4
Why does Kevin say his radio calls are better than his TV work?
12:48–21:44
5
What routines does Kevin use to protect his voice and avoid losing it?
21:44–36:21
Speakers
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