Jimmy always sounded like he was somewhere else when commentating on football or the game got in the way of him doing the crossword … At least George gets excitable about events even tho he cites an amount of shite inbetween.
A cross country quiz stalwart.
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I was actually a contestant on Know Your Sport in the mid-90’s. Won my first round and was second in the quarter-final,with a decent score which was enough to make the semis as a best loser. It went south after that and was 3rd in the semi after I bottled buzzing on a question which I was certain I knew the answer to, but was afraid of being penalised 4 points if I was wrong*
Jimmy was gone from it at that stage and Dangerhere was flying solo. They brought in the late Brendan O’Reilly to warm up the audience beforehand. He seemed a nice chap but died on his arse as he tried to tell a few jokes. Hamilton was a pleasant enough chap but has that distant Northern Protestant type of way about him.
RTE fired beer at us and myself and a fellow contestant from Clare were half-steamed before the first round. He went to pieces on his specialist subject which was Dublin football, strangely enough.
- The question I bottled out of was Who in 1988 became the first British boxer to regain a World Title?
Was sick, as no-one buzzed and I would have been right. Answers on a postcard please.
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Lloyd Honeyghan
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Correct!
Would you have gone through if you’d got it? There’ll be lads on here sending in requests to the know your sport archive now mate for video footage of you.
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It was in the final quickfire round and would have put me in the lead at the time. My concentration went after it and I fell to third. A Kerryman got on a savage run in that round and cruised home. Won it out afterwards, if I recall.
True story (apparently 
) my father once told me.
Brendan O’Reilly was reading out the “cross-channel soccer results” on the radio back in the late 60s or some time thereabouts.
Some wag on the production staff decided to play a joke on him, and changed the name of the opponent of Edinburgh Heart of Midlothian.
O’Reilly read out out the scoreline: “Hearts 2 Lungs 0”.
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A lot of lads around here much older than I thought … @Sidney must be 42, @Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr 44, @backinatracksuit 43, @balbec 62.
I was in primary school in 1992, pal.
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Close enough, kid. I’m 45.
You don’t look a day over 40, mate.
Nah, was in a bar recently with my youngest brother and a girl asked him if he was my son.
I bet he loved that…
In the old days we had RTE 1 and later RTE 2. We had the Olympics, the World Cup, the European Championship, the FA Cup, the Cup Winners cup, the Sunday Game and Sports Stadium. And Sean Mannion fighting in the middle of the night. That was it.
Jimmy was the voice that gave life to many of those events. We knew no better, we didn’t have 24/7 sports and the edgy/hipsterish/tiresome analysis of today.
Jimmy always flew the green flag. I never thought of him as a GAA commentator, to me he was a soccer man.
He was of a different more innocent generation. RIP Jimmy.
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Cough
He did til he copped that it was me she was lamping!
You’d want to watch that at your age…
I probably look older than I am. The milf-like Mrs. Kremmen is 46 and frequently gets away with mid-30’s.
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