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Originally Posted by dilanesp
I don't think Durkin proves what you think it proves. Indeed, Durkin and Denman's heydays coincided with the decline and destruction of the sport.
When the sport was most popular, there were either no calls at all or very basic race callers like Joe Hernandez, Hal Moore, Harry Henson, Fred Capossella, and Jack Drees at most tracks.
I'm not saying Durkin or Denman made the sport less popular, but they clearly didn't make it more popular or arrest its decline.
Somehow in the sport's glory years, it didn't need an announcer to add "atmosphere". (Perhaps similar to baseball's and boxing's glory years where there was a lot less noise at baseball games and boxing matches too.)
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There was NOTHING basic about any of those guys. Except for accuracy and professionalism.
They were the VOICES of horse racing. Fans hung on their every word. The very first thing I began to love about our sport was how Harry Henson described the action at Del Mar. I was a fan of HIS first before really embracing the sport.
To this day fans reminisce about things all those gentlemen said 50 years ago.
Basic? Try Brilliant.
