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Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 1, 2022, 11:51 PM
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Just watching the 1978 Clemson-Carolina game on YouTube, with the Jim Phillips call. I sure miss that guy, and that voice. Very nostalgic for me - was there that day (Class of ‘79).
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 5:14 AM
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For me he was THE GOAT
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 6:34 AM
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Those were the days my friend,his death was a terrible loss.
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Agreed. I remember that day
Aug 6, 2022, 2:15 PM
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Riding in to work in downtown Greenville, hearing the announcement on the radio. Genuine mourning, tears.
He was the best at football, basketball, baseball… he did it all and did it well.
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 6:39 AM
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I remember before Jim Philips the announcer used to get very animated after a big play let out a big "Woo Hoo mercy!" Was that Bill Goodrich or someone before him? I was just a kid then.
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Yes...Bill Goodrich was the "woo mercy" guy. He was the
Aug 2, 2022, 8:29 PM
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first guy I can remember calling Clemson games, but Jim Phillips was the all-time best!
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I can remember as a kid playing out in the yard
Aug 2, 2022, 6:59 AM
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with a football and I was pretending to be a Clemson player and running plays while imitating Jim Phillips call of the game.
“Rodney sets them down in the I…”
“Here’s the snap, the spot, the kick, and it’s Good!”
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 7:03 AM
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when you hear an old broadcast you realize just how good he was, I am biased because I listened to him most but there was no one better to me
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips- one other thing
Aug 2, 2022, 7:46 AM
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I met him a couple of times at road games . He was always very kind and accommodating.
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We may have downgraded since Jim Phillips, but UsuK has
Aug 6, 2022, 11:34 AM
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fallen off the cliff with Toad Ellis. He ain't worth the sock lint in one of Bob Fulton's shoes!
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 7:05 AM
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I can remember my Dad sitting in his recliner listening to the games on his little radio. Jim Phillips was amazing.
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 7:14 AM
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Like you, I remember dad listening to Jim call the game, even when we were at the game. He would have an ear phone in one ear and relay to mom and me what Jim was telling the radio audience. It helped me understand the action!
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I remember him tearing my hide up when I drank
Aug 2, 2022, 7:35 AM
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his Sunday beer one Saturday ?
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Re: I remember him tearing my hide up when I drank
Aug 2, 2022, 8:35 AM
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Your dad was "The Man."
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Growing up if Dad and I weren’t at the games . . .
Aug 2, 2022, 1:37 PM
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we’d be wading the Russellville Flats catching supper . . . we’d separate and cover ground as our day started, signaling with “hoops” when we landed one . . . when the Sun was high overhead, I’d work my way towards Dad . . . he always had the transistor on him . . . as the sound carries so well across the water, our “hoops” more often were from Tiger Excitement rather than fish . . .
striperfan your Dad made our Saturdays Special!!!
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Re: Growing up if Dad and I weren’t at the games . . .
Aug 2, 2022, 9:51 PM
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Awesome stuff
Remembering Jim Philips and his game calls
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Re: I remember him tearing my hide up when I drank
Aug 2, 2022, 5:54 PM
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I get emotional remembering spending time with my Dad in his basement workshop on Saturdays in the late 60s and 70s and that familiar voice on the radio during football season ties it together in my memory.
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 7:44 AM
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Jim made you feel like you were at the game. He never missed the essential details.
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 7:54 AM
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Best 2 ever do it
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 7:59 AM
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Loved the guy! Listened to many radio broadcast when I was growing up.
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 8:44 AM
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Loved listening to him. The great ones are all going away and what they've been replaced with just don't have the same feel. I hate UNC so much but I use to love listening to Woody too.
This is going to get a little hate but I like turning on a South Carolina game because, even though he's terrible at math and I hope they get beat every single time, I like to hear the real excitement/disappointment in Todd's voice.
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 1:20 PM
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I do love listening to the pain in Todd Ellis's voice when the gamecocks are playing poorly.
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 8:54 AM
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My father had just recently had surgery for the same condition that took Jim Phillips from us too early: aortic aneurysm. We only knew of the possibility because my grandfather had died of the same thing. Tends to run in families, sons especially, I guess, because I have to have an ultrasound every few years. So far so good!
Anyway, I do miss his voice. Having grown up in Greenville, I rarely went a day without hearing it.
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Help me remember this:
Aug 2, 2022, 9:07 AM
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Was sometime in the ‘70’s, in VA, somehow our little receiver had slipped out to near the sideline, uncovered. Jim Phillips noticed him and was whispering into the microphone like the VA coaches would hear him. Play went uncontested for a TD. The call on the play was classic JP. Just can’t call the receiver’s name.
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I remember that name
Aug 2, 2022, 9:44 AM
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was he in Orangeburg?
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Re: Help me remember this:
Aug 2, 2022, 6:11 PM
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It was October 1988 and we were losing 7-3 to Virginia. Coach Danny Ford gave me and my Dad tickets to the game, is why I remember it so well. The play happened right in front of us and I remember showing my Dad Davis was lined up all alone and Rodney nodded to him when he seen it. They took a quick count and Rodney fired the ball to the wide open Davis!
Side Note, I remember Danny Ford screaming on the Sideline "Who Called that play" he was livid in spite of the score. But one of the sideline coaches with headphones came running over as he was chewing Rodney Williams out and told him what happened. Coach Ford grabbed Rodney and hugged him after the revelation of the play was made known to him. Was a surreal moment! One of the best games defensively I remember watching!
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Re: Help me remember this:
Aug 2, 2022, 9:13 PM
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Nice Tiger Ray. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 9:37 AM
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I still think back to only having the radio to listen to for Clemson games. Jim was a great play by play announcer. I worked at a golf course in high school. One day I answered the phone and it was Jim wanting to speak to our golf pro. Talked to him for a few seconds.Our golf pro, Tom Vargo, said Jim was a great guy and friend. That was in 1986.
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Even if I wasn't at the game, he painted a picture and
Aug 2, 2022, 9:53 AM
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I could see everything as it was happening.
I felt like I was on the 50 yd line.
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 10:12 AM
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If we left the game early, we could hear Jim all the way to the car because so many tailgates had their radios tuned in. Now no one ( including me)seems to want to listen to our current guy. It was special.
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 11:04 AM
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Living in NC, if my dad couldn't attend a game he would drive about 1/2 hr away so he could listen to them on the radio.
Our house was just far enough away that he couldnt listen to the games.
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He’s a Clemson legend and was the best in the business.***
Aug 2, 2022, 1:26 PM
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Re: He’s a Clemson legend and was the best in the business.***
Aug 6, 2022, 1:49 PM
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I've been attending Clemson games regularly for 54 years. Still, I feel like I've been to more Clemson games with Jim Philips than with any other soul, living or dead. Sometimes I'd have to drive the car 40 miles to some nowhere hilltop where Jim could tell me, just me, about the game. Sometimes my buddies and I could not wait to get back to the car to listen to Jim's post game call in show.
Sometimes on Jim's post game shows, you'd get the impression he might have had a drink or two and and then just love it when the blasted some silly caller about their bad takes on the game.
Jim was the best. Jim liked the word 'garnered' more than any other English speaking person in the world. He was also big on 'gleaned'. When he said, "HI EVERYBODY" I knew it was on and that both Jim and I were excited.
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Re: He’s a Clemson legend and was the best in the business.***
Aug 6, 2022, 2:27 PM
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Scampered was another!
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Re: Remembering Jim Phillips
Aug 2, 2022, 1:42 PM
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Iconic. That's the word I think of when I think of him. Very select company. He's our Keith Jackson
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I remember our old country home, clean fresh air
Aug 2, 2022, 5:29 PM
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and flowers growing in the field, along the path, beside our swimmin hole.
Mama hollering through the screen, "would you kids like some homemade ice cream?"
That was such a simpler time and place,
Bluebell tastes just like the good old days.
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Jim Phillips is Clemson football. Period.***
Aug 2, 2022, 8:59 PM
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Re: Jim Phillips is Clemson football. Period.***
Aug 2, 2022, 10:16 PM
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Awesome, remembering Jim Philips game calls
Football and basketball were fun-to listen to.
What a memory
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In Jim's presence 1 late evening at WFBC Radio board room
Aug 6, 2022, 11:20 AM
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around 1975? where I had just hung 4-5 custom-framed Sports Illustrated posters and he walked in, looked at them, turned to me & asked where I found them and walked out without another word.
He never knew I was the station's new commercial interior designer & furnisher OR a Clemson Tiger grad or fan..for it didn't matter, to us.
Neat to have his beloved Son striperfan on TigerNet 47 years later!
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