Behind the Mic

By Mike Wilson

Sometimes I fall asleep watching Sportscentre and dream opinions. When I wake up, this is what I find:

In The great city of champions the teams have been going thorough some tough times. The Eskimos have been a bubble team just to make the playoffs and when they do it's a first round exit. And of course, so have the Oilers who own the first overall pick in this years draft. And this year, both of those teams have lost a big part of their history.

I'm talking about the voices of the teams. For the Oilers, Rod Phillips, a man who has called the games for them for every season dating back to their WHA days. The Oilers have yet to find his replacement but Bob Stauffer is believed to be the front runner.

As for the Eskimos, The man who has called the games for them for more than 50 years, Bryan Hall, called it quits this year. But the Eskies have found their new guy and I'll tell you all about it right after I tell you about TONY ROMAS just kidding.

The new guy isn't such a new guy to 630 CHED, the carryer of the games. Morley Scott has been named the voice of the Edmonton Eskimos but has experience behind the booth. He started with the Oilers in the early 1990's and was replaced by Stauffer last year.

Personally, I was not a fan of Halls spurts when he would ignore the game during an exiting play to tell us about TONY ROMAS or some other sponsor and then tell the listeners about the touch down that was a result of an interception and a few laterals.

And while Rod was away a few years back, Scott called the hockey games without any flow. So maybe he'll be great for football.

We'll see how Scott will do and who will replace the hall of fame voice of the Oilers, Rod Phillips.

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Mike Wilson

Keyword: TONY ROMAS