One of my fondest memories of Eli Gold calling Bama games is the way Eli would pronounce Cornelius Bennett’s name every time Biscuit would make a tackle. “Tackle made by ole #97 Cooooorrrr-neeeeeeellllll-yusss Bennett….. 🤣
Long time Crimson Tide fan here (+40 years) and I have to agree with Adam. Keith Jackson is the "yardstick" by which ALL other announcers are judged by. Eli is however the best voice for a single team in all of college football currently in my humble opinion.
I listened to the game from right bout the missed fg all the way to the TD throw in my SUV. I much rather heard Eli Gold saying we won or lost than than announcers. When I heard him said TD Alabama I screamed so load my wife came out the house screaming I better be dying cuz our son was. I drank a bottle of whiskey to calm my nerves.
But if Teague hadn't done the impossible and Miami kept long gain or TD, Miami would've just declined the penalty and kept the big play. Instead, they had to take measley give yards.
Absolutely. I just watched a video of Eli ringing the bell in the cancer ward…his last treatment and beating it! I’m so glad he’s back this year. I have sure missed hearing him. 😂 ROLL TIDE ROLL!!🐘🐘🐘
Eli Gold is THE BEST!!! Listening to him call a game is just like watching it. He describes every detail so well you can picture in your mind as he is talking. LOVE him!!!
Pure Gold! Eli, you are one of the greats in broadcasting. I'm surprised with all the football you've done, you could come down to just 5 of your favorites. #1 still gives me chills. Roll Tide!
Chills. I'm sitting here with goosebumps hearing those calls and remembering where I was on every single play. Do yourself a favor: Listen to these calls again but this time close your eyes. Experience the moment like Bama fans did sitting next to their radio. Go from scared and to disbelieving and overjoyed in just seconds. We are so lucky to be Alabama fans, y'all.
I’m watching this on Friday, October 7, 2022….and I sure do miss hearing this man call Alabama football. I’ve heard he is sick. So Eli, if you’re reading this…get well soon, your Alabama family misses you and your voice. Please come back!😊
As much as I love Alabama radio--possibly the greatest radio call I will ever hear and possibly the last memory I'll let go off when I leave this earth is the ESPN radio call of the final play of the 2018 championship game.
I will never forget the penn state Alabama game you called. I was listening while I was supposed to be helping my dad. He let it slide cause how excited I was. He knew how much I love Alabama football even though he doesn’t love it the way I do. Awesome memories
I have taken to turning the volume down on TV, cranking up the laptop and finding the Bama radio broadcast so I can watch the game but still hear Eli Gold. I have kids who have never even been to Alabama (we live in CT now) and they treasure his calls almost as much as I do. Doing my best to raise 'em right.
You know it’s a big play when Phil is unable to hide his fandom 😂 Alabama is better than everybody all the way down to the radio guy. Eli is the best voice in CFB hands down.
i love me some Eli - you've made some GREAT calls - but my all-time favorite is Paul Kennedy's "The Kick" Van Tiffin Iron Bowl call ... i had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Kennedy at a leadership conference on campus at UA; super nice guy .... we appreciate all of the calls made throughout the years!!
Thanks for the memories Eli and ACT..used to watch the games with the volume down and Eli on the radio back in the day...good times...nobody did/does it better. RTR
Everytime I see that throw from Tua against Georgia i get cold chills i was watching this game with a group of huge Georgia fans i live in Georgia born here but when i was ten years old we moved to Alabama i just fell right into being a huge Alabama fan came in the Bear Bryant era I eventually moved back to Georgia but the Alabama Crimson Tide came with me anyway I was haggled all through out this game Georgia was beating Alabama by all rights I wish yall could have seen the look on the faces of that Georgia crowd some were crying some were just sitting In complete shock some was just down right mad and cussing i got up never said a word as i walked out i said in a very boastful but humble tone ROLL TIDE ROLL
Roll Tide ALWAYS and forever... Thank you Eli for all the memories...I taught your daughter when she was at Vestavia Elem. Central.... I was also the main carpool lady..loved seeing your Gold Cadillac when you picked her up... years ago.
That voice transports me to October Saturdays when there’s no humidity and cloudless azure blue skies with the ratta-tat-tat of distant snare drums. Hurry up October.
I was very fortunate to get to meet Eli Gold this past April 8, 2024 at the Florence Conference Center just over the Tennessee River from where I live in Muscle Shoals, AL. It was well worth the money for meet and greet (got my autographs and pictures), dinner, speech and Q&A for Shoals Scholar Dollars, but I wanted to meet Eli. Got to hear his truth of what happened to him at Alabama, but important to me, besides meeting him and talking with him and hearing his story I could utube, I finally got to tell him what I have wanted to, through tears, forever. I dont have cable, by choice, and even when I did go to daddys or somewhere to watch the games, occasionally, we always turned volume down and listened to Eli call the game which was about 2-3 seconds ahead of TV. Over the years, especially when I worked (retired), I preferred to stay home and listen to game on radio with Eli. I could wash dishes, do laundry, if game was scary to burn off stress because it was so true for so many years that I told him, "I could see the game through your Crimson voice better than if I was watching". Could be in the kitchen and hear, he's to the 40, the 30, the 20 and I knew to run to radio to turn up cause he's to the 10, TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA!!!!! That man and that voice is forever ingrained in my Alabama soul. Love to Eli and family and may your health continue to improve and all is well for him and his family. We love you Eli!!!!!
I’ll never forget the Yeldon play. My older brother and his wife had some friends over for a party and I came over and me and him were going to watch the game and the rest of the folks over weren’t really sports fans so they weren’t really paying attention to the game. As the game went on more and more of the guests came in to the den to see what we were yelling at and by the last few minutes of the 4th quarter everyone in the house was glued to the TV. When Yeldon scored the TD me and my brother were literally jumping up and down hugging and yelling and after a bit we noticed everyone was looking at us like we were insane. After a couple minutes I turned to the party guests, most of whom I had just met, and calmly told them to enjoy the rest of the party and went home 😆
I was looking to see how many and who from Alabama are actively playing in the NFL and saw Marcell Darius was playing and wanted to see his pic 6 and hear Eli calling it. It is one of my favorite all time plays Alabama made and I loved and miss Eli calling plays. His TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA was classic . Whether it was from the 4th turn at Darlington or the booth at Bryant Denny you were the best voice there was. Thanks Eli for a fantastic job .
I have very few things that I remember vividly. Driving home from my friends house my senior year cause my parents told me it was too late and I needed to come home I was listening to overtime of the national championship on the radio. I was about halfway home when I heard “TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA DEVONTA SMITH TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA” everything else from that call blacks out as I was screaming in joy for the rest of the drive home
Eli Gold is the Coach Saban of playcallers…When u hear his voice on the radio, football season has started…I will literally watch the tv and turn up the radio just to hear him call it…RTR
I got to grow up listening to Eli throughout the vears, the man is a legend in my book. It's so funny to me that he's from Boston but doesn't have that bostonian accent. In fact I can't place his accent, it's distinct and you know exactly who's speaking when you hear it.
Eli I wish you the very best recovery possible you are a Crimson Tide icon like it or not we love you and we wish you the very best recovery and looking forward to hearing your voice scream out touchdown Alabama
Scott Ellis LMFAO!!! You damn right!!! They never accept the honest facts that they're never going to be better than Alabama!!! I literally want to vomit every time I hear Tammy on Finebaum with that crackhead accent! I bet Phyllis from Mulga has a better house than Tammy lol.
#5 I remember watching that play from the basement of my dorm. It was like a wave: the guys in the first row were the first to realize what had just happened, then it proceeded back as row after row understood from the reaction. Everyone went nuts. Meanwhile, back home my mom (who had not been a college football fan before I went to Bama) walked outside because she could not bear to watch us lose like that. When my dad came out and told her the kick had been blocked, she at first thought he was just teasing her.
I first met Eli when he was doing the radio broadcast of Birmingham Bulls hockey in the early 80s. A friend was working the VIP parking at the civic center and I would go down and hangout until the end of the first period and then we could get in to see the game. We would sit directly in front of the radio booth and fetch beers and hot dogs for Eli for the rest of the game. Boy could he drink beer.
I was in a bar in Knoxville for Rocky Block covered head to toe in Crimson and white and thought I was gonna have to fight my way out of the bar at the end of that game
Back in the day, my friends and I would put the Alabama game on TV (CBS Sports, ABC Sports, ESPN, etc.) but turn down the TV volume switch. Instead, it was all Eli Gold on AM radio in Montgomery. This went back to the days of Gene Stallings, if not before.
Being in New Orleans at a bar on that Bama LSU play was crazy because we were losing the whole game!!! I will say #2 was my favorite though I was shaking and cussing right before the kick! Lol
I listened to the game from right bout the missed fg all the way to the TD throw in my SUV. I much rather heard Eli Gold saying we won or lost than than announcers. When I heard him said TD Alabama I screamed so load my wife came out the house screaming I better be dying cuz our son was. I drank a bottle of whiskey to calm my nerves.
I think it was Musberger that forewarned in the beginning of the Tenn game about the kickers trajectory. He said to watch how it might effect the game later on
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From an LSU fan, and part time high school sports broadcaster, this guy is a treasure.
The respect I have for you! 💯
This is an Alabama football legend and we are all so lucky and privileged to listen to his calls. He truly is Gold..Roll Tide!!
One of my fondest memories of Eli Gold calling Bama games is the way Eli would pronounce Cornelius Bennett’s name every time Biscuit would make a tackle. “Tackle made by ole #97 Cooooorrrr-neeeeeeellllll-yusss Bennett….. 🤣
The best voice in all of college football. Roll Tide!!!!
Stephen H I love Eli but best ever has to be given to Keith Jackson.
Long time Crimson Tide fan here (+40 years) and I have to agree with Adam. Keith Jackson is the "yardstick" by which ALL other announcers are judged by. Eli is however the best voice for a single team in all of college football currently in my humble opinion.
I listened to the game from right bout the missed fg all the way to the TD throw in my SUV. I much rather heard Eli Gold saying we won or lost than than announcers. When I heard him said TD Alabama I screamed so load my wife came out the house screaming I better be dying cuz our son was. I drank a bottle of whiskey to calm my nerves.
@JoJo Hix john ward was great, as a bama fan nothing beats john forney, that dude bled crimson
I am a life long Bama fan. I love Eli. Not sure he’s the best but he’s on my Mt. Rushmore for sure.
ABSOLUTELY LOVE Eli Gold...he IS the voice of The Crimson Tide...MISS you SO much
Tua to Devonta best call ever sound like the calm before the storm.
magcla, I literally jumped 8ft into the air from my couch after this happened.
Yeah but that call on George Teague running down Lamar Thomas and taking the ball away was awesome. It just was negated because of an offsides penalty
But if Teague hadn't done the impossible and Miami kept long gain or TD, Miami would've just declined the penalty and kept the big play. Instead, they had to take measley give yards.
Eli Gold.......the gold standard in CFB broadcasting. We love you, Mr Gold.
Absolutely. I just watched a video of Eli ringing the bell in the cancer ward…his last treatment and beating it! I’m so glad he’s back this year. I have sure missed hearing him. 😂
ROLL TIDE ROLL!!🐘🐘🐘
Hope Eli never retires and lives to call our games for many years to come!! RTR!
Eli Gold is THE BEST!!! Listening to him call a game is just like watching it. He describes every detail so well you can picture in your mind as he is talking. LOVE him!!!
Pure Gold! Eli, you are one of the greats in broadcasting. I'm surprised with all the football you've done, you could come down to just 5 of your favorites. #1 still gives me chills. Roll Tide!
Every time I hear an Eli gold game winning call I get goosebumps
"That feeling in their stomache that is hard to explain". Thats me every game
Me to
Eli is Alabama Football. TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA!
He paints a fantastic picture with his words, always has.
Elli is awesome!
He has painted a great picture of the games for those who couldn't see.
We love you.
I remember him calling that LSU game in 2012. Legendary.
Obi-Wan Kenobi I betcha Loser State fans still salty after that one lol.
Oh yeah that’s one of my top five favorite games
Chills. I'm sitting here with goosebumps hearing those calls and remembering where I was on every single play.
Do yourself a favor: Listen to these calls again but this time close your eyes. Experience the moment like Bama fans did sitting next to their radio. Go from scared and to disbelieving and overjoyed in just seconds. We are so lucky to be Alabama fans, y'all.
Roll Tide!
We listen to the Crimson Tide Network every game.
I’m watching this on Friday, October 7, 2022….and I sure do miss hearing this man call Alabama football. I’ve heard he is sick. So Eli, if you’re reading this…get well soon, your Alabama family misses you and your voice. Please come back!😊
As much as I love Alabama radio--possibly the greatest radio call I will ever hear and possibly the last memory I'll let go off when I leave this earth is the ESPN radio call of the final play of the 2018 championship game.
My heart is racing reliving these. This is a classic. Thanks for all you do!!!
I agree with you on #1, sir. Your excitement and your summary were legendary!
I though Eli was about 90 years old he has been on radio forever
ELi is one of the best play by play guys ever.. right up there with all the greats
Greatest Of All Time🐎🐎🐎
THE GOAT! ROLL TIDE ROLL!
Voice of the tide in my time. I'm 45
Same. I'm 41 and grew up with Eli's voice. It won't be the same without him
I will never forget the penn state Alabama game you called. I was listening while I was supposed to be helping my dad. He let it slide cause how excited I was. He knew how much I love Alabama football even though he doesn’t love it the way I do. Awesome memories
The best commentator for the Tide, always! Roll Tide Roll! The road to 18 is now!!!
I have taken to turning the volume down on TV, cranking up the laptop and finding the Bama radio broadcast so I can watch the game but still hear Eli Gold. I have kids who have never even been to Alabama (we live in CT now) and they treasure his calls almost as much as I do. Doing my best to raise 'em right.
Honorable mention: George Teague’s pick six vs Miami (1993)
Agreed
You know it’s a big play when Phil is unable to hide his fandom 😂
Alabama is better than everybody all the way down to the radio guy. Eli is the best voice in CFB hands down.
Best voice in CFB and its not even close
i love me some Eli - you've made some GREAT calls - but my all-time favorite is Paul Kennedy's "The Kick" Van Tiffin Iron Bowl call ... i had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Kennedy at a leadership conference on campus at UA; super nice guy .... we appreciate all of the calls made throughout the years!!
Thanks for the memories Eli and ACT..used to watch the games with the volume down and Eli on the radio back in the day...good times...nobody did/does it better. RTR
I still get chills
Every time I go back and hear Eli scream "Touchdown Alabama" I get chills. Love this man.
Roll Tide Roll Eli! Such beautiful memories you have. I remember them all and shared your excitement as well. Your the best!
Savage be stepping all over Eli's calls.
Everytime I see that throw from Tua against Georgia i get cold chills i was watching this game with a group of huge Georgia fans i live in Georgia born here but when i was ten years old we moved to Alabama i just fell right into being a huge Alabama fan came in the Bear Bryant era I eventually moved back to Georgia but the Alabama Crimson Tide came with me anyway I was haggled all through out this game Georgia was beating Alabama by all rights I wish yall could have seen the look on the faces of that Georgia crowd some were crying some were just sitting In complete shock some was just down right mad and cussing i got up never said a word as i walked out i said in a very boastful but humble tone ROLL TIDE ROLL
Roll Tide ALWAYS and forever... Thank you Eli for all the memories...I taught your daughter when she was at Vestavia Elem. Central.... I was also the main carpool lady..loved seeing your Gold Cadillac when you picked her up... years ago.
That voice transports me to October Saturdays when there’s no humidity and cloudless azure blue skies with the ratta-tat-tat of distant snare drums.
Hurry up October.
I was very fortunate to get to meet Eli Gold this past April 8, 2024 at the Florence Conference Center just over the Tennessee River from where I live in Muscle Shoals, AL. It was well worth the money for meet and greet (got my autographs and pictures), dinner, speech and Q&A for Shoals Scholar Dollars, but I wanted to meet Eli. Got to hear his truth of what happened to him at Alabama, but important to me, besides meeting him and talking with him and hearing his story I could utube, I finally got to tell him what I have wanted to, through tears, forever. I dont have cable, by choice, and even when I did go to daddys or somewhere to watch the games, occasionally, we always turned volume down and listened to Eli call the game which was about 2-3 seconds ahead of TV. Over the years, especially when I worked (retired), I preferred to stay home and listen to game on radio with Eli. I could wash dishes, do laundry, if game was scary to burn off stress because it was so true for so many years that I told him, "I could see the game through your Crimson voice better than if I was watching". Could be in the kitchen and hear, he's to the 40, the 30, the 20 and I knew to run to radio to turn up cause he's to the 10, TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA!!!!! That man and that voice is forever ingrained in my Alabama soul. Love to Eli and family and may your health continue to improve and all is well for him and his family. We love you Eli!!!!!
Goosebumps
Alexander's run against florida in 1999 was a good one
They got a name for the winners in the World, They call Alabama the Crimson Tide !!!!
Call Me the AU Fool
I wish he would do a top 100! I'd listen to Eli talk shop all day.
I’ll never forget the Yeldon play. My older brother and his wife had some friends over for a party and I came over and me and him were going to watch the game and the rest of the folks over weren’t really sports fans so they weren’t really paying attention to the game. As the game went on more and more of the guests came in to the den to see what we were yelling at and by the last few minutes of the 4th quarter everyone in the house was glued to the TV. When Yeldon scored the TD me and my brother were literally jumping up and down hugging and yelling and after a bit we noticed everyone was looking at us like we were insane. After a couple minutes I turned to the party guests, most of whom I had just met, and calmly told them to enjoy the rest of the party and went home 😆
True i was there at the game tua and devonta smith
We will miss you this year! Get well soon!! Eli Gold the GOAT!!!
I was looking to see how many and who from Alabama are actively playing in the NFL and saw Marcell Darius was playing and wanted to see his pic 6 and hear Eli calling it.
It is one of my favorite all time plays Alabama made and I loved and miss Eli calling plays. His TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA was classic .
Whether it was from the 4th
turn at Darlington or the booth
at Bryant Denny you were the best voice there was.
Thanks Eli for a fantastic job .
I have very few things that I remember vividly. Driving home from my friends house my senior year cause my parents told me it was too late and I needed to come home I was listening to overtime of the national championship on the radio. I was about halfway home when I heard “TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA DEVONTA SMITH TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA” everything else from that call blacks out as I was screaming in joy for the rest of the drive home
Eli Gold is the Coach Saban of playcallers…When u hear his voice on the radio, football season has started…I will literally watch the tv and turn up the radio just to hear him call it…RTR
That is a great top 5! So many to choose from! RTR and Eli we love you!!!
it wouldnt be as special without Eli.
I got to grow up listening to Eli throughout the vears, the man is a legend in my book. It's so funny to me that he's from Boston but doesn't have that bostonian accent. In fact I can't place his accent, it's distinct and you know exactly who's speaking when you hear it.
That was the best championship call of all time. Eli gold is a legend
underrated NASCAR commentator!
Semi-pro hockey to NASCAR to Bama football. From a Kent State Golden Flash, Eli will always make me respect the Tide.
Eli I wish you the very best recovery possible you are a Crimson Tide icon like it or not we love you and we wish you the very best recovery and looking forward to hearing your voice scream out touchdown Alabama
I smell 3 Barners with the dislikes. They must hate this. That makes me so very happy. Roll Tide!
Scott Ellis LMFAO!!! You damn right!!! They never accept the honest facts that they're never going to be better than Alabama!!! I literally want to vomit every time I hear Tammy on Finebaum with that crackhead accent! I bet Phyllis from Mulga has a better house than Tammy lol.
Nobody calls it like eli
"How about that!!!" Mel Allen smiles.
Wow can't believe I'm just finding this.
Great memories-Roll Tide- Judge Eddie Sapir 58
I miss him NASCAR on TNN
He also did NASCAR on MRN Radio as well.
#5 I remember watching that play from the basement of my dorm. It was like a wave: the guys in the first row were the first to realize what had just happened, then it proceeded back as row after row understood from the reaction. Everyone went nuts.
Meanwhile, back home my mom (who had not been a college football fan before I went to Bama) walked outside because she could not bear to watch us lose like that. When my dad came out and told her the kick had been blocked, she at first thought he was just teasing her.
I can't argue this list at all, but truthfully shocked no George Teague call.
The one against auburn in '09 on "The Drive" wasn't too bad either. RTR!
I think the strip is one too...RTR!
The strip AND the High-Stepping Pick 6
Great call's!!!!!
I first met Eli when he was doing the radio broadcast of Birmingham Bulls hockey in the early 80s. A friend was working the VIP parking at the civic center and I would go down and hangout until the end of the first period and then we could get in to see the game. We would sit directly in front of the radio booth and fetch beers and hot dogs for Eli for the rest of the game. Boy could he drink beer.
The one that instantly came to my mind was the Penn State "Desperation Block". Glad it made the list.
We miss you Eli Gold and Roll Tide.
Giving me chills #RollTide
This channel is very quality
That good old southern boy... from Brooklyn, New York.
I was in a bar in Knoxville for Rocky Block covered head to toe in Crimson and white and thought I was gonna have to fight my way out of the bar at the end of that game
I'll miss you Eli. I was 22 when you started calling plays for the tide. I'm in my late 50s. I'm a little salty about current events.
Honorable mention; the onside kick against Clemson in their first National Championship meeting!
Can't believe he skipped the entire decade of the 90s. Antonio Langham interception comes to mind.
I want Eli to be the voice of my car's GPS!
Back when Amazon first debuted Samuel Jackson voice option for Alexa, I was like, man, we need an Eli Gold option!
Tj yeldon lsu was my ringtone for years
Why did this make me cry!? RooolllTiiiddeee
I remember more of you as saying “you’re listening to mrm radio, the voice of nascar”
Eli was the voice! It’s not the same, Alabama will Roll on, but geesh we miss you! God bless you and your health!
I remember that final play in the 2018 nation championship
Back in the day, my friends and I would put the Alabama game on TV (CBS Sports, ABC Sports, ESPN, etc.) but turn down the TV volume switch. Instead, it was all Eli Gold on AM radio in Montgomery. This went back to the days of Gene Stallings, if not before.
Being in New Orleans at a bar on that Bama LSU play was crazy because we were losing the whole game!!! I will say #2 was my favorite though I was shaking and cussing right before the kick! Lol
The best period
Why can't I find Eli's calls of Alabama's losses on this forum? The ONLY one I could find was Chris Davis' kick six in the Iron Bowl.
I listened to the game from right bout the missed fg all the way to the TD throw in my SUV. I much rather heard Eli Gold saying we won or lost than than announcers. When I heard him said TD Alabama I screamed so load my wife came out the house screaming I better be dying cuz our son was. I drank a bottle of whiskey to calm my nerves.
I think it was Musberger that forewarned in the beginning of the Tenn game about the kickers trajectory. He said to watch how it might effect the game later on
I seriously thought #1 was gonna be George Teagues strip against Miami
I would watch the game and listen to the radio, wasn't the same for me when Stabler left
Dish network has a simulcast of the game & eli w/no delays. It's called hometown radio.
I’d like to have heard his call when George Teague took the ball away from Lamar Thomas in the 1993 Sugar Bowl. 👍
Eli Gold has been on ESPN for college basketball as well.
The corner guarding Smitty thought they were going for an out route to pickup some of the yardage as well.
Dennis Riddle, 1996 Iron Bowl!
ROLL TIDE ELI!!!
Please let CBS or ESPN hire Eli Gold ❤
What's up with the E.D commercial at the end 😂
Ala b ama and Georgia 2018.