Regardless of whether we are, “Hondo” is, and of course that trumps everything else. Jim Henderson was the New Orleans Saints’ radio play-by-play announcer from 1986 until today, and he velvet-voiced Saints fans through some of the most trying, and almost all of the most triumphant, occasions in franchise history.
Few men better have had command of the language, and fewer have been able to convey it in such a manner as to mesmerize listeners, to become their guides, to become the friend who sits on the couch and watches each and every game with them without fail, even though his couch was a radio booth, sometimes thousands of miles away.