"Hello everybody I’m Lindsey Nelson and welcome to Shea Stadium in New York."
"We were going to be televising 120 games in color. Lindsey Nelson eyed a men’s clothing store on Broadway.
"Show me all the jackets that you can’t sell," he told the owner, buying seven “gaudy, awful” coats.
The next month a cabbie said:
"You’re the guy who wears all those wild jackets on TV!"
Lindsey told a friend:
"See!!!
He doesn’t know my name, but he knows what I do.
Against the Yankees, it pays to advertise."
His radio/TV mates often scavenged jackets on the road, with Bob Murphy saying:
"If we saw a wild enough jacket, we’d tell him."
Nelson claimed he owned 335 of the multi colored jackets.
Once Lindsey`s oldest daughter Nancy bought her Dad a jacket in Ireland.
Both were stopped at customs.
The customs inspector, a Mets fan, joked:
"Nobody would wear a jacket like this."
Nancy Nelson beamed:
"My Daddy will."
Lindsey Nelson was the announcer during the first NFL game to feature the use of "Instant Replay", which Lindsey had to explain repeatedly during the game, reminding viewers that:
"This is not live."
"He had no tolerance for mistakes.
I don't think he was late once in his whole life."
Bob Murphy.
"He was tremendous guy, we were very close.
It was more or less like family."
Ralph Kiner.
"The game is the important thing.
The announcer should never get in the way of the game."
Lindsey Nelson.
Murphy, Nelson, Kiner.
LEGENDS!!!!