Sportcasters

Long time announcers Dick Vitale and Tim McCarver, who also had very long career as a major league catcher, in THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD (1988).

Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer and longtime Boston Red Sox announcer Curt Gowdy as themselves in THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD (1988).

“How about that?!”
Longtime announcers Dick Enberg and Mel Allen in THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD (1988).

Verne Lundquist as himself in HAPPY GILMORE (1996).Lundquist is a longtime announcer, currently with CBS Sports. Lundquist was commentator for sport show, “Bowling for Dollars”, in Dallas, Texas in the early 70′s. During this period, Lundquist starting interviewing Dallas Cowboys players and their first head coach, Tom Landry, at their sidelines, during halftimes, practices, pre-season and pre-game warm-ups, in Dallas. Lundquist currently does play-by-play for CBS college football (teaming with Gary Danielson on the network’s broadcast of Southeastern Conference games) and college basketball action, as well as The Masters and PGA Championship golf tournaments.

This is more for New York sports fans. In A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001), check out the guy walking down the stairs; its long time New York-based sportscaster Warner Wolf. If you watch the entire scene, you can tell Wolf is having a hard time not looking directly into the camera.