Latest / OneLegUpAlex Media / Calling Ovechkin's 895th Goal, Kenny Albert Has a Mic For All Seasons and All Moments; Congrats From OneLegUpAlex, Lou and Gabby 040725
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- 0:00Speaker 1: You know, over a year and a half ago on
- 0:02Speaker 1: One Leg Up on Sports and the One Ling Up Network,
- 0:06Speaker 1: Lou Turmonello on Terminilo's Take, asked our friend, the legendary
- 0:11Speaker 1: Kenny Albert, this question right here on One Leg Up
- 0:16Speaker 1: on Sports with Alex Garrett.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Ken any sporting event that you haven't done that's on
- 0:22Speaker 2: your book at list, you know, Lou, I've been I've
- 0:25Speaker 2: been real lucky again. You know, to call Stanley Cup
- 0:27Speaker 2: finals on both TV and radio. Have called baseball playoffs,
- 0:32Speaker 2: NFL playoffs, NBA playoffs, worked one Super Bowl. It was
- 0:36Speaker 2: the world feed, the international feed, so it wasn't on
- 0:39Speaker 2: in the United States, but it was on elsewhere. So
- 0:42Speaker 2: you know, the goal is to just try and keep working.
- 0:46Speaker 2: As you know, I love working the big events obviously,
- 0:48Speaker 2: whether it's season games them out of the sport, work
- 0:52Speaker 2: the eight Olympics, six Winter Olympics, two summers. So would
- 0:57Speaker 2: just love to keep working as many of those big
- 0:58Speaker 2: events as possible.
- 1:00Speaker 1: And remember when we had talked with Kenny, the idea
- 1:03Speaker 1: of Alex Ovechkin passing Wayne Gretzky in the near future,
- 1:07Speaker 1: I mean about a year and a few months later,
- 1:10Speaker 1: was not on the table yet. It was rumblings would
- 1:12Speaker 1: he be healthy enough to do it? Well? Sure enough?
- 1:17Speaker 1: Who was there on TNT with the biggest call of
- 1:23Speaker 1: not only Sunday afternoon, but I would think his career
- 1:27Speaker 1: for both alex Ovechkin and Kenny Albert. Here it was,
- 1:31Speaker 1: but here here and Kenny let the roar of ubs
- 1:48Speaker 1: arena play on for a good few seconds or more.
- 1:53Speaker 1: And congratulations to Alex Avchkin of course for passing Wayne
- 1:58Speaker 1: Gretzky for eight ninety five on road to probably nine
- 2:01Speaker 1: hundred goals and maybe even a little more. But also
- 2:06Speaker 1: behind the camera on the microphone, congratulations to Kenny Albert,
- 2:12Speaker 1: who truly has a mic for all seasons and a
- 2:16Speaker 1: mic for all moments. Kenny, what a great call. And
- 2:20Speaker 1: lou Terminel and I wish you congratulations on being on
- 2:24Speaker 1: the national feed on the biggest moment in the NHL
- 2:30Speaker 1: since I can remember. Congratulations Kenny on behalf of lou
- 2:36Speaker 1: Terminell and I, and of course congratulations on behalf of
- 2:39Speaker 1: your Port Washington fellow native Gabby who watched the call
- 2:44Speaker 1: with us last night, pretty epic moment for all watching
- 2:50Speaker 1: and in the arena yesterday. We are so happy for
- 2:53Speaker 1: you that you got to be on the mic to
- 2:56Speaker 1: call ovechkins eight hundred ninety fifth goal, and of course
- 3:00Speaker 1: we'd love to have you back on to talk about
- 3:02Speaker 1: that moment, what it was like in the building yesterday
- 3:06Speaker 1: as history unfolded in the second period and the entire day.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Congratulations again to Alex Ovechkin, to Kenny Albert, and to
- 3:21Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky. You are always the great one.