View Full Version : The Phil Liggett Appreciation thread
Dead Fingers
09 Oct 2008, 12:02 PM
http://www.sportingtours.co.uk/liggett.jpg
Not only an appreciation for one of the best sports commentators and a voice that is synonymous with the sport of cycling , but this thread allows me to be a nerd and discuss some of the cycling dvd's I have been watching as of late. :p
Currently watching 2001 Ghent-Wevelgem
Next up, the 94 Paris-Roubaix
Twenty26Six
09 Oct 2008, 01:45 PM
"It's an angry peloton..."
Toon³
09 Oct 2008, 09:38 PM
I love the random factoids that he just springs on you when he's doing the commentary for Le Tour.
soccernutter
10 Oct 2008, 12:44 AM
"How can they do it?! I was never able to ride up that mountian...or any mountian!"
cleansheetbsc
10 Oct 2008, 03:15 PM
"It's an angry peloton..."
close the thread. Starts and ends with that one. Although when he has to fill a 5 hour show during a Alp stage, his plentiful descriptions of suffering piling on top of suffering are always very good.
Also the discussion of what wines were consumed the night before and what will be consumed that evening during Le Tour are always great.
Dead Fingers
10 Oct 2008, 03:45 PM
I was at World Cycling Productions (http://www.worldcycling.com/) HQ today, which is only a few miles from where I live.
These are the guys who do all the race cycling dvds.
They are having a Fall sale going on at the moment, so I was there checking stuff out. Right off the showroom they have their editing room and of course, the sound throughout the room was Phill's voice. :)
Moishe
10 Oct 2008, 06:32 PM
"He is riding like the halcyon days of Eddy Merckx."
"And so, the first pedal has been turned in ANGER!"
"And look at that, it's as though someone dropped a bomb in the field."
"He climbs like an angel"
"He's wearing the mask of pain"
"Once again, they've stretched the elastic."
"The elastic has snapped."
"He's dancing on his pedals in a most immodest way!"
....and oh so many more.
http://www.liggettfan.com/
Twenty26Six
13 Oct 2008, 07:13 PM
" ... Having been robbed of the day's prize, you'll notice the big sprinters aren't at the front, sharpening their legs. THEY ONLY LIKE TO WIN - YOU KNOW!! ... "
Twenty26Six
15 Oct 2008, 01:21 PM
" ... The peleton makes natural selections ... "
Moishe
15 Oct 2008, 05:41 PM
"The Columbians are wonderful climbers, they just tend to fall off their bikes alot on the descents, though"
Dead Fingers
13 Feb 2009, 09:30 PM
“I’ve slept with Paul Sherwin now more than his wife.”
Race announcer Phil Liggett, on his long-term partnership with colleague Paul Sherwin.
LOL!
Moishe
15 Feb 2009, 09:34 AM
http://www.velonews.com/files/images/LiggitTOCprol209021.jpg
I thought this was the right place for this.:) Which one of you wants to admit to being the man in the photo?
Twenty26Six
06 Jul 2009, 11:56 AM
"I feel a big depression coming over the peloton."
7/6/09 - Columbia HTC leads a 26 man breakaway at the end of Stage 3.
HuntKop
06 Jul 2009, 12:55 PM
Liggett is amazing.....really top level stuff here.
Moishe
06 Jul 2009, 09:25 PM
Liggett is amazing.....really top level stuff here.
He's been the best commentary for so long now. He says some of the most mind-boggling stuff but all good.
crazypete13
06 Jul 2009, 11:16 PM
It's really a shame that his coverage is limited to the final few KMs in the evening broadcast on Vs. Daytime tour coverage is all Phil and waaaaay better.
Michael K.
07 Jul 2009, 09:44 PM
It's really a shame that his coverage is limited to the final few KMs in the evening broadcast on Vs. Daytime tour coverage is all Phil and waaaaay better.
But you get more Bobke at night, don't you? There's nothing wrong with that.
By the way Bob's Twitter is like marvelously, slightly cracked beat poetry (http://twitter.com/bobkeroll).
"Across the camargue they gypsies of pain will fly, watch the mistral winds blow the peloton to pieces"
crazypete13
08 Jul 2009, 12:20 AM
It's no that I'm anti-Bobke (I deliberately steered clear of that when others wouldn't) it's that Phil is that good.
cleansheetbsc
08 Jul 2009, 08:13 AM
It's no that I'm anti-Bobke (I deliberately steered clear of that when others wouldn't) it's that Phil is that good.
I used to watch the tour at night and Bob was fine. Until last year, after I had ACL surgery and was home for a few days and going in late to work for a few more days, I started watching the tour in the morning. Phil talking play by play for a four hour mountain stage is flat out awesome. Reminds me of listening to Mozart when I used to study for the CPA exam. You know when you are listening to an absolute master of his craft.
Bob, I enjoy his insight, especially from the American perspective, but building a broadcast around his insight for three hours is a bit much on a nightly basis.
Dead Fingers
08 Jul 2009, 08:42 AM
For one of the Spring Classics this year, they had Bob and Phil together, which was quite nice. Paul must have been on vacation.