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Ranking the greatest sports broadcasting calls of all-time

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Bill Buckner; the 1980 US Olympic hockey team; George Foreman knocks down Joe Frazier

To have one of the greatest calls of all-time, a play-by-player needs timing above all else. The person needs the skills, but right place and right time tops all else.

So there are technically great calls nightly, but if it is just in a regular-season game, they go unnoticed in history. It has to be iconic, like the way everything came together in The Post’s No. 1 call of all-time, Al Michaels’ “Do you believe in miracles?