Over the years, basketball has had some great announcers and a lot of them with big quirks. Think Al McGuire, Dick Vitale, Bill Walton and, we hasten to add, Charles Barkley.
Barkley has been funny his entire life. He laughed his way through Auburn and when he was waiting for the draft, realized that Philly would likely take him and not pay him nearly what he had expected.
So he gained like 50 lbs. in a big damn hurry to discourage them from picking him.
Didn’t work, and as it turned out, Philly was a great place for him to play basketball and, aside from throwing people through windows and the like, has cracked people up ever since.