I don't think you could say that there is any one person who is not a coach, athletic director or administrator who has done more for college football than Keith Jackson. I've always denied it was mine. It was actually a phrase of Dick Lane, one of the television pioneers. Thank you, and enjoy the story. With a college football game unfolding before him, Jackson has the ability to transform it into a work of art with his words.
Players are warriors, and their battlefield is the gridiron.
With a telephone at his ear in his Los Angeles home, however, Jackson is simply a digitized voice on a weekday afternoon. There's little in that voice to indicate what it is capable of doing. Maybe, though, that's why so many people respect Keith Jackson as much as they do. He is so much more than a voice. I think Keith Jackson loves college football.