By Andrew Cline on 3.8.07 @ 12:07AM
Color man Billy Packer excites and incites -- and always misses the call.
Great moments in history as called by CBS Sports college
basketball commentator Billy Packer. (Hear Packer blow the most
obvious call of the year here.)
Boston, March 5, 1770
Packer: An angry mob of Bostonians is squaring
off against a small band of soldiers, and it looks like things
could get ugly. I mean, tempers are hot, people. The Bostonians are
taunting the soldiers. You know, they remind me a little of a young
Michael Jordan, the way he used to toy with his opponents, try to
unnerve them. The Bostonians are doing the same thing. Their star
center, Crispus Attucks, is really letting the redcoats have it.
He's right in their faces. The mob is daring the soldiers to fire
and is starting to hit at them with clubs and a sword. The redcoats
have loaded their muskets and, oh!, they've fired into the crowd!
Attucks is down! Several others are scattered on the ground around
him. Now, you hate to see that, you really do. But you know, if
you're going to taunt you have to expect to get a reaction. I mean,
that mob had it coming. The officials ought to let that one go.
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