View From The Booth: Ted Ramey recalls his childhood Clash connection

I tell people that the NASL and the Earthquakes were always a presence in my household growing up, but they don’t believe me, or they don’t quite understand. I tell them we had a dog named “Pele.” Maybe that can give you an idea of what my household was like, but the glory days of the NASL all occurred before I could even walk with confidence. I was born in 1982, and by the time I began to understand the sports world, names like “Best” and “Child” were mere ghosts of a league folded, kept alive in the memory of people like my dad, Hal Ramey, former voice of the Earthquakes in the NASL era (and again in the Clash/MLS era, but we’ll get to that later).