Bulldawg Illustrated continues its series, featuring long-time UGA personalities of the Fourth Estate. There are many who are published authors along with network television superstars. Our sixth installment spotlights former Georgia Bulldogs’ play-by-play announcer, Ed Thilenius, who like so many media stars got his start in a local newsroom (Athens Banner-Herald).
Before Scott Howard, an underappreciated announcer who underscores the fundamentals of radio play by play, there was Larry Munson; before Munson there was Ed Thilenius who had, at one time, a similar cult following as Munson did.
Thilenius’ teams, unfortunately, did not have the good fortune of winning like those of Munson era.