Ian Eagles gives Jets-Giants local announcer flavor
Ian Eagle reminisces on-air about his time spent at WFAN during WFAN's 20-year anniversary at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria. Credit: Patrick McCarthy
Ian Eagle will call his first regular-season Jets-Giants game for CBS Sunday — a natural choice given his New York-area roots and popularity among New York-area viewers.
In fact, the TV networks that carry the game regularly have given the people what they want by assigning play-by-play men who can relate to the teams and rivalry.
This will be the fifth time in the past seven iterations Jets-Giants will be called by a local, including one father-son team and current or former announcers for the Knicks, Nets and Rangers.
Kenny Albert called the 2003 and ’11 games for Fox, and his father, Marv, handled the 1993 game for NBC. In 1996, Mike Breen worked the game for Fox.
The only non-New Yorkers to get a crack at it in the past 22 years were Kevin Harlan for CBS in 1999 and Dick Enberg for CBS in 2007. Verne Lundquist called the 1988 game for CBS.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
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