Remembering Paul’s Calls
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost two years since the “Voice of the Razorbacks” was tragically killed in a car crash.
Paul Eells
Paul Eells‘ sentimental value to Razorback fans across the world has been priceless. Every now and again you hear stories of men and women overseas on various military bases tuning in to an Arkansas football game. From thousands of miles away online, Paul’s voice gave them some comfort away from home.
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For 28 years in Arkansas, grown men sat beside radios in the deer woods or in their cars like an anxious child, hoping — and even praying — to hear Eells yell, “Touchdown, Arkansas! Oh my!”
This year will mark the second for the Paul Eells Golf Classic in Cabot. Money raised from the event this Thursday and Friday will go toward scholarships for broadcast journalism students in the state. As Democrat-Gazette sports editor Wally Hall wrote recently, it’s a great cause.
More info on the tourney and the upcoming celebrity softball game this Saturday in Little Rock can be found here.
KATV in Little Rock, the former television home of Eells, will be releasing some of Paul’s best Razorback game calls, complete with video, as the event approaches this week. The first installment features calls within the last seven years.
Enjoy.
The Hogs kick off the 2008 season against Western Illinois in just 108 days.
[…] Courtesy of Brandon Marcello and The Slophouse blog, we came across this compilation of some of Paul Eells’ memorable radio calls from the last seven years. Good stuff. Fall afternoons just aren’t the same without Eells’ trademark celebration of the Hogs entering the end zone. […]
Mr. Eells was the genuine article. He was Arkansas’ answer to Vin Scully, Jack Buck, Curt Gowdy and others. He had that magical ability to make the radio listener feel just as much a part of the action with a style uniquely his own.
Back when I was on the Hill, we didn’t have the internet. After graduation, I wasn’t fortunate to live in range of ARSN affiliated stations. So, it was years later when streaming audio brought his voice to my first computer. And at that moment, memories of being in Razorback Stadium and marching in that “A” in front of the crowd came rushing back.
He is missed but no doubt enjoys dwelling in a much better place. Like Broyles, his shoes cannot be filled. Comparisons would not be fair to Chuck Barrett.
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