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Loran Smith: Harmon Wages, warts and all

Hamon Wages was a football player and a very good one, often underrated, but always having a flair for the dramatic, turning heads and causing headlines to sometimes drip with hyperbole. Even when there was a faux pas, it seemed to make him more popular with the fan base of the Atlanta Falcons.

That’s because he was honest. Like his first time on the air as a sportscaster when he bleated out to the viewers, “I know what you are thinking that I am terrible,” but adding a proviso that he would work at it and would improve.