Tag: Brad Nessler

Brad Nessler told a fantastic Caitlin Clark story during the Iowa State-Iowa broadcast

The Caitlin Clark effect is real.

During Saturday’s Iowa-Iowa State game in Iowa City, CBS Sports broadcasting legend Brad Nessler told a fascinating story about the Caitlin Clark effect.

Clark, an Iowa sports all-time great, has become one of the nation’s most beloved professional athletes since joining the WNBA’s Indiana Fever this past spring.

As Nessler visited a sports bar in Iowa City on Friday night ahead of broadcasting the Hawkeyes-Cyclones game, he noticed that three gigantic screens “the size of a semi-trailer truck” at the bar were playing Friday’s Fever and Minnesota Lynx game.

Apparently, the night’s NFL game wasn’t nearly as important at the sports bar than Iowa fans cheering Clark on in the big leagues.

“They had the Eagles and the Packers on about a 24-inch monitor in two spots,” Nessler recalled. “And every time [Clark] hit a three, the crowd went berserk. And when the game was over, the place emptied out.”

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Nessler said you’d have to be living in a cave to not know who Clark is, and an anecdote like this underscores what tremendous reach she has in the sports world right now.

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CBS Sports announces broadcast team for Ohio State opener

Are you ready for Nessler and Danielson? #GoBucks

College football will look very different this fall and not just because we now have a 12-team playoff or conference realignment. CBS which has aired SEC games for close to three decades signed a deal with the Big Ten this past year and will begin coverage this fall.

The first Big Ten game to air on CBS? None other than your Ohio State Buckeyes! Ryan Day and the Bucks will begin their quest for a national championship on August 31 when they take on the Akron Zips at Ohio Stadium.

CBS Sports will be bringing out the big dogs as it kicks off this new relationship with the Big Ten. It was announced that Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson, and Jenny Dell will provide commentary during the game.

It will be interesting and different to hear this crew doing Big Ten games. The duo of Nessler and Danielson have been a mainstay on Saturday afternoons for years. Many fans would argue the duo, especially Danielson have had a bias for the SEC in the past. Will they be able to switch allegiances after so many years in the South? Time will tell, but one thing is for sure… a new era is upon us.

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Likely broadcast team for Notre Dame-Purdue game on CBS unveiled

Will you enjoy listening to this crew?

We don’t know how Notre Dame will perform during its Sept. 14 game at Purdue, its third contest of the season. We do know that it will be broadcast on CBS as the primary game on that network’s Big Ten coverage. Now, we also know who most likely will be on the call for that game.

CBS Sports has announced that it has retained its lead college football broadcast team of Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson and Jenny Dell for the 2024 season. The team is set to announce every game in the network’s 3:30 p.m. EDT time slot. Since the Irish will be facing the Boilermakers on CBS at that time, it’s a safe assumption that they’ll be calling this game.

It will be nice to see the Irish get the top broadcast team on a network they typically don’t play on. If that’s not a sign of a respect towards them, it’s hard to know what is.

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The CBS Sports broadcast booth blasted Iron Bowl referees for missing a blatant Alabama facemask grab

How did the referees miss this facemask grab?

Alabama football got away with the most blatant facemask pull on Auburn in Saturday’s annual Iron Bowl, the CBS Sports broadcast team let the officiating have it all the way from the booth.

Broadcasters Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson and Gene Steratore tore into the horrific missed call, which saw Auburn running back Brian Battie’s facemask swung around by Alabama wide receiver Kendrick Law on a special teams return play.

Nessler went so far as to say it’s the worst no-call he’s seen in college football this year, and Danielson said you would have to not understand the sport of football itself to not see that this was a facemask penalty. Ouch.

The Crimson Tide clearly got away with a huge, huge penalty on this play, and it’s not often you’ll see a broadcast crew like the one at CBS Sports just go off on how bad a call went for any respective team.

However, on Saturday, Nessler, Danielson and Steratore did just that.

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Dolly Parton delightfully interrupted the Georgia-Tennessee broadcast by singing off-camera

Dolly Parton singing during Brad Nessler’s game commentary is the kind of broadcast interruption we love.

The highlight of college football Saturday so far has been Dolly Parton singing “Rocky Top” at Tennessee to the Vols crowd, as the music icon went back home to celebrate her favorite football team.

Well, Parton’s delightful time at Tennessee also featured inadvertently singing the song during a break in her interview with CBS Sports’ Jenny Dell.

It also happened while CBS Sports broadcaster Brad Nessler was calling a play during Tennessee’s game against Georgia. So, as Nessler was talking, Parton was softly singing “Rocky Top” again for the folks at home.

Look, while some broadcast interruptions can be annoying, this one was quite literally the exact opposite. It’s the kind of charming coincidence that makes Parton one of our most beloved personalities.

Dell joked after the play that she felt like she had a personal concert from Parton while she was singing during the break, which is the kind experience most of us would dream to have at a Tennessee game.

This is the kind of broadcast magic that makes college football special, as viewers at home got to hear Parton sing and Nessler call a play at the same time.

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Brad Nessler apologized to Alabama for the ultimate announcer’s jinx on kicker’s perfect streak

Oh no, Brad Nessler jinxed Alabama’s kicker.

CBS Sports commentator Brad Nessler put on a clinic for how to jinx a kicker on a hot streak during Alabama’s home game against LSU on Saturday night.

Crimson Tide kicker Will Reichard, who recently became the SEC’s all-time leading scorer, hadn’t missed a single kick in 28 attempts for Alabama dating all the way back to Oct. 15, 2022.

Nessler pointed out Reichard’s incredible streak ahead of a 47-yard attempt, and like clockwork, the kicker shanked the attempt as it went wide right of the goalposts.

The broadcaster immediately apologized for the jinx, which is all at once kind of hilarious and just so, so brutal for Reichard and Alabama.

It’s literally Nessler’s job to point these things out during the game for the viewers at home, but the timing of it is just so unfortunate.

Crimson Tide fans will likely blame Nessler’s bad luck for the attempt, but even the great kickers miss a field goal every now and again.

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Georgia OC Mike Bobo’s thunderous high-fives look like they hurt — a lot

Mike Bobo’s high fives look like they HURT.

Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo got a little too amped up during the Bulldogs’ 43-20 road victory over Florida on Saturday.

As Georgia went into The Swamp and got the best of a solid Florida team, Bobo got particularly excited after one moment in the game and gave out high fives to his fellow assistant coaches.

Well, Georgia tight ends coach Todd Hartley was sitting right next to him and got a wallop of a high five from Bobo that looked like it stung a good deal.

Like, Bobo really went in for the sonic-boom high five of the century there on Hartley, who took it like a champ as he held his hand in the air just for a moment after to soak in his hand getting slapped so hard.

To top it all off, longtime CBS play-by-play announcer Brad Nessler provided a genuinely hysterical bit of commentary after the high five was done. His delivery of this was just priceless.

“I don’t want to take too many high fives from Mike Bobo; you could break a finger,” Nessler quipped alongside Gary Danielson as they broke down the super high five from Bobo.

That’s a heck of a line from Nessler, and well, that’s a heck of a high five from Bobo.

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