The broadcaster opened up about his two-word on-air tradition.
Tune into any sports broadcast with play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz on the microphone, and you'll be welcomed into the event by the same two words.Nantz has begun broadcasts in the same manner for more than two decades now, ranging from the Super Bowl to the Final Four to the Masters Tournament in Augusta. On Saturday at the"It was a connection phrase with my ailing father," Nantz said in a video posted by CBS to social media on Saturday.
Nantz did it, thinking no one else would notice. But he received a ton of positive feedback from peers, especially when he shared the reasoning behind it. So he kept it up."My dad's been gone now for 16 years," Nantz said. "But every time I come on the air, whether it's this weekend at the PGA, from Butler Cabin at the Masters, the Super Bowl, I look into that lens. I don't get any feedback in return, you just see a lens.
"And like the first shot in golf, there's a little bit of nervous energy. But when I say, 'Hello friends,' for that flicker of a second, I think of my dad. It relaxes me, it calms me, and I'm able to kind of move into the show feeling comfortable, confident and more important than anything, connected to my dad."
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