There have been excitable broadcasters over the years, but then there was Bill Wilkerson — who put the exclamation on EXCITABLE! calls.
Name a sport that has been prominent in St. Louis, and Wilkerson broadcast them all in his pioneering radio career that spanned more than 3½ decades. He was at his peak when doing football play-by-play, whether calling Missouri or St. Louis Cardinals games. He’d get so wound up that he seemingly was about to leap out of the booth as his energy and enthusiasm for those teams boiled over in compelling moments.
“MIZZ-OOOR-EEE! MIZZ-OOOR-EEE!