Ray Scott was a sportscaster, best known for his broadcasts for
the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League.
Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Scott began his broadcasting career on
local radio in the late 1930s. His first NFL broadcasts came in 1953 over
the DuMont Television Network; three years later he joined the Packers,
and it was in Green Bay that his terse style of play-by-play developed its
greatest following.
Scott was also the lead television and radio announcer for Major League
Baseball's Minnesota Twins from
1961 to 1966, calling the 1965 World Series on NBC television.
In 1967 Scott became lead NFL announcer for the CBS network; that year
he broadcast the infamous Ice Bowl game as well as Super Bowl I, both of
which involved the Packers. During his tenure with CBS he called four
Super Bowls and nine NFL (later NFC) championship games.
CBS fired Scott in 1974, replacing him with Pat Summerall (who had been
paired with Scott as a color commentator). He was subsequently employed by
a number of NFL and MLB teams. Scott also broadcast college football,
college basketball, and golf at various points in his career.
Scott was twice named National Sportscaster of the Year by the National
Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, and was given regional awards
by that organization 12 times in four different states. In 2000 he was
posthumously given the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award by the Pro
Football Hall of Fame.
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