Former Charlotte sportscaster Bill Currie died late Monday in Washington State, but the memory of his days as the voice of the Tar Heels will live on with every Carolina fan who heard him talk. Caulton Tudor of the News & Observer had a good column today
on the man Sports Illustrated once dubbed the Mouth of the South. And Robert Dvorchak had this column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
For my money, Currie was a wordsmith. His often-flamboyant ways – he once described a slow game as about as exciting as artificial insemination – masked gems of the uttered art. My favorite is what he once said about former UNC point guard Dick Grubar around 1969 or ’70, I guess. Grubar was an extremely poised floor leader who always seemed to know where his next pass would go – while looking in another direction.
Grubar, Currie said, was “cooler than the other side of the pillow.”
Got any memories of Bill Currie you’d like to share?
