Special Birthday Congrats - Bob Irving

[Mr Dee]

Wouldn't even think of starting a thread if it wasn't for the fact this is for the best sports announcer I could think of - up here in Canada anyways...

Happy Birthday Bob Irving!

 

 

[HardCoreBlue]

Happy Birthday Bob Irving! You da man.

[do or die]

Happy Birthday Bob..

Class act.

 

[Noeller]

Nobody even in his league when it comes to the CFL. Best ever.... 

[Mr. Perfect]

The man, the myth, the legend. Simply the Vin Scully of CFL football. 

[IC Khari]

Happy ?? Birthday Bob, best CFL broadcaster ever!

[Y2C]

Happy birthday Knuckles.

Simply the best.

[WBBFanWest]

Take away Bob's knowledge, delivery and over-all talent, and he's no better thank Rod Black.  {ducks-runs}

[LimJahey]

Happy Birthday Bob! Gonna be an instant addition to the Bombers ring of honour some day

[Brandon Blue&Gold]

34 minutes ago, WBBFanWest said:

Take away Bob's knowledge, delivery and over-all talent, and he's no better than Rod Black.  {ducks-runs}

But still better than Rod Pederson.   {hides behind a rock}

[ALuCsRED]

Happy Birthday Bob!

[blueingreenland]

Happy Birthday Bob!

I started cheering for the Bombers in 1972, when they had Don Jonas and Mack Herron; I believe that was also the first year Bob did play by play for us on CJOB!!

[kelownabomberfan]

happy b-day Bob.    You are legitimately the only bigger Bomber fan on this earth other than me, and you've been a huge part of my Bomber experience since 1977 when I went to my first Bomber game.   You rock buddy.

Edited August 16, 2016 by kelownabomberfan

[iso_55]

Happy Birthday Bob. You are simply the best!

[WinnipegGordo]

8 hours ago, Brandon Blue&Gold said:

But still better than Rod Pederson.   {hides behind a rock}

Unlike Roddy, Bob would never say we or us when talking about the team he covers. 

Happy B Day Bob, and I like the text option for questions into the coach's show by the way. (text your questions to 204-780-6868).

Edited August 16, 2016 by WinnipegGordo

[Fatty Liver]

Back in the days of black-outs (circa. early-mid 70's) it was common for many Bomber games to be un-televised both home and away.  Living outside the city it was fortunate if I could attend 3-4 home games per year.  Thus I spent a lot of time listening to Bob on CJOB and wish to thank him for every minute of it, he is the best. 

[Guest J5V]

I can watch on TSN but I have to listen on CJOB and that's because of you. Happy Birthday, Bob!

[wbbfan]

class of the league as far as color guys goes. all my greatest bomber memories are narrated by knuckles. 

[wbbfan]

On 8/16/2016 at 1:45 PM, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Back in the days of black-outs (circa. early-mid 70's) it was common for many Bomber games to be un-televised both home and away.  Living outside the city it was fortunate if I could attend 3-4 home games per year.  Thus I spent a lot of time listening to Bob on CJOB and wish to thank him for every minute of it, he is the best. 

that held true into the early 2ks for a ton of people. They used to black us out all the time despite being out side of the black out area. 

[Noeller]

21 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

class of the league as far as color guys goes. all my greatest bomber memories are narrated by knuckles. 

Wow when did Bob start doing Colour on top of PBP? Y'know the dude is such a pro he probably could pull it off... 

[wbbfan]

23 minutes ago, Noeller said:

Wow when did Bob start doing Colour on top of PBP? Y'know the dude is such a pro he probably could pull it off... 

if you want to be pedantic about it, hes allways been half or more color guy telling anecdotes and stories as much as pbp. But since zalnasky left and ob was too cheap to bring any one on the road with him leaving random out of towners filling in hes been doing double duty. Hes allways been more of a vin scully type. 

[17to85]

15 hours ago, Noeller said:

Wow when did Bob start doing Colour on top of PBP? Y'know the dude is such a pro he probably could pull it off...