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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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You couldn't be more wrong IMO. In his prime, Durkin was an INTEGRAL part of the race...not just an observer perched high above describing the action.
His TC and BC calls were ETCHED in people's minds as much as the performances on the racetrack itself.
There was a very good reason why he called those races all those years...it wasn't just luck.
