Johnny Most

And, uh, I think, uh, when legends start to get old like this, you know, you see it with a lot of these guys, Van Miller, you know, I mean, your, your guy in Boston there.

Johnny Most.

Johnny Most.

I mean, all these guys get to a point where...

But you still kind of want to hang on to them a little bit because they're, they're still decent.

No.

No, but he's still, he's still decent, and it's a comfortable voice.

You remember Johnny Most, right? Like, towards the end of it, I mean, he still sounded good, like, he still brought excitement, and he was a, you know, unapologetic homer, and he's like, "Ah, the Celtics again screwed again." But he had diabetes, and he was a smoker.

It's, it's a, it's a daily issue, but I will battle through.

Well, it never affected Johnny Most.

He was able to get through with that, the gravelly voice, you know, for his entire career.

Yeah.

He did baseball with Tony Kuback, who later worked for the Blue Jays, Bob Costas and Tony Kuback, Danny Gallivan, of course, when it came to hockey.

I listened to a ton of radio, so that's when I first heard Johnny Most call the Celtics games.

Just so many.

I had the opportunity to flip back and forth on 50,000-watt stations at night, and I had so many voices that had an impact.

Yes.

And the one thing that Johnny had to do, so you had to get out of the way because once you came to the game broadcast, Johnny had to say, "This is Johnny Most, uh, high above courtside-"

High above courtside

... or directly at courtside-"

Yeah.

I think Johnny Most had that microphone, dude.

Is that a vintage microphone?

Martians from a dying planet 140 million miles from the sun planned to migrate.

tonight's game.

Well, we'll get back to Guy Manella and Johnny Most for the tap-off of the second half of tonight's game at halftime.

Milwaukee leading Boston 47-40.

In case you just joined us, the Utah Stars have been eliminated by the New York Nets, who have clinched the ABA championship 111-100.

When Havlicek stole the ball against the Sixers in 1965, on the previous play, Bill Russell threw an inbound pass off of the guide wire that was holding up the backboard and deflected out of bounds, giving Philly the ball.

Without the guide wire, we never would've had that classic call from Johnny Most.

Okay.

But you still didn't have the b...

I did the same thing

... anybody that can put f- a fire out on Johnny Most's pants can do just about anything.

I, we gotta talk about Johnny Most.

We have to.

Because people may not remember this.

He was having health issues.

They needed somebody who could come in that could do both analysis and play-by-play.

And so you w- did not grow up in Boston, but obviously you knew the legend of Johnny Most.

The legend, not a myth, the real deal.

Glenn Ordway, the big O, play-by-play man, color commentator with the legendary Johnny Most, and sports talk legend is joining us.

Don't you like how I use the word legend?

I must tell you, I'm sure you use it for every guest, but it feeds my ego, so I'll take it.

And so the story became, as the years progressed on, you know what happens, Bob.

The stories go to the second person, the eighth person, the 12th person.

Oh, he pushed Johnny most down the stairways.

No, no.