So, late in my UF career, my friends, the late Charlie Mandese (i miss you, Chuck, and I'm sorry), Doug Lampe - who looks like a white Tony Dungy, and Wade XXXXXX, would wake up early on gamedays and start calling each other.
as soon as one of us was awake and sober enough to call, we would call one of the others in our circle and anonymously say, "Dixie Head-knockin'" and then hang up. This was an imitation of Keith Jackson, perhaps the best announcer ever for college football. It was then that persons responsibility to call somebody else and say the same thing. Then we would all do microwaved shots of Jim Beam. i am not kidding about any of this.
due to the lack of the popularization of email, we never kept in touch, and, unfortunately, Chuck died in 1998 suddenly, and we never got to reconcile.
i miss him. he looked like Charlie Kaufman in Adaptation, but better looking, and he made me laugh. we'd be playing Texas Hold'em if he were still alive, and laughing our asses off.
here's to you, brother.
ABC Sports - Jackson, Keith: "Jackson spent 10 years at ABC affiliate KOMO in Seattle in news, sports and production. He moved from KOMO to ABC Radio West as sports director in 1964 and continued freelance work with ABC Sports before becoming full-time in 1966. He also worked as a radio news correspondent during those years. In 1965, he worked a baseball telecast with Jackie Robinson in the afternoon and covered the Watts riots that same night in Los Angeles.
Jackson was born and raised on a farm near the Georgia-Alabama state line. He served four years in the U.S. Marines, including time in China. He attended Washington State College with the intent to study police and political science, but graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism, learning his trade in the same studios that produced Edward R. Murrow, among others in the broadcast industry.
Keith and his wife of 50 years, Turi Ann, reside in Sherman Oaks, California. They have three children -- Melanie Ann, Lindsey and Christopher. They also have three grandchildren, Ian McKenzie, Holly Elizabeth, and Spencer Thomas Jackson. "
