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Anyone who is a Georgia Fan should know of this man. Larry Munson, a true member of the Bulldog family. To us he was more than a sport's announcer. He was a hero to all bulldogs. On September 22, 2008, Larry Munson and his family announced that he would be retiring from the booth effective immediately. He was with the Bulldogs for over thirty years. He was considered by many as the voice of the Bulldogs.

 I don't know about all of you guys reading this, But my family had the same process every weekend. I loved it.There's nothing like getting ready for that game on Saturday afternoon,Inviting some friends over, getting out the grill, and turning on the TV. But after all of that, there was something different that we did. We would mute the tv and turn on the radio. We preferred listening to Larry Munson while watching the game over listening to the TV. Why is that you may ask? Munson would put a lot of the excitement into the game. He made it much more enjoyable. Many Bulldog fans can probably relate to this, maybe they have done the same. Larry Munson will be remember that's for sure. Below I am posting some of Munson's most memorable quotes and his awards.

Quotes

"We hand it off to Herschel, there's a hole....5....10...12, he's running over people! Oh, you Herschel Walker!...My God Almighty, he ran right through two men! Herschel ran right over two men! They had him dead away inside the 9. Herschel Walker went 16 yards. He drove right over those orange shirts and is just driving and running with those big thighs. My God, a freshman!" - calling Herschel Walker's first touchdown run against the Tennessee Volunteers in 1980.

"So we'll try to kick one a hundred thousand miles. We're holding it on our own 49-and-a-half ... gonna try to kick it sixty yards plus a foot-and-a-half ... and Butler kicked a long one ... a long one ... Oh my God! Oh my God! ... The stadium is worse than bonkers! I can't believe what he did! This is ungodly!" - calling Kevin Butler's field goal in the final seconds to win over Clemson in 1984.

"Touchdown! Touchdown! Touchdown, my God, a touchdown! Touchdown! Touchdown! Massaqoui!" - Matthew Stafford's game-winning touchdown pass to Mohamed Massaquoi against Georgia Tech in 2006.

"Man, we've had some shots, haven't we? Snap to David Greene, there he goes again in the corner and we jump up....Touchdown! Oh, God, a touchdown! With 85 seconds..." - calling David Greene's touchdown pass to Michael Johnson as Georgia defeated Auburn in 2002, clinching the Bulldogs' first-ever SEC Eastern Division championship.

"Buck back. Third down on the 8. In trouble. Got a block behind him. Going to throw on the run. Complete to the 25, to the 30. Lindsay Scott 35, 40. Lindsay Scott 45, 50, 45, 40. Run Lindsay! Twenty-five, 20, 15, 10, 5. Lindsay Scott! Lindsay Scott! Lindsay Scott! Well, I don't believe it. 92 yards and Lindsay really got in a footrace, I broke my chair, I came right through a chair, a metal STEEL chair...Do you know what is gonna happen here tonight? And up at St. Simons,Jekyll Island and all those places, where all those Dawg people have got those condominiums for four days...MAN, is there gonna be some property destroyed tonight!" - calling wide receiver Lindsay Scott's 92-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Buck Belue against Florida in 1980.

"We just stepped on their face with a hob-nailed boot and broke their nose! We just crushed their face!" - calling Georgia's last-second win over Tennessee in 2001.

Awards

•  Munson was inducted into the Georgia-Florida Hall of Fame in 2004.
• In 2003, he received the Chris Schenkel Award presented by the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame.
• Munson was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
• The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association has awarded Munson its state-based Sportscaster of the Year Award on multiple occasions: 1960 (WSM, Nashville), 1963 (WSM), 1964 (WSM), 1965 (WSM) and 1969 (WSTX, Nashville) as the Tennessee Sportscaster of the year; 1967 (WSB, Atlanta), 1971 (WFRC, Athens), 1982 (Georgia Network, Atlanta), 2002 (WSB) as the Georgia Sportscaster of the year.

 Thanks for the Memories!