Picking Chicago's Four Best Sports Broadcasters-- Part 1

From the July 6, 2018, Chicago Sun-Times  "A combo worth carving in stone" by Jeff Agrest.

He's thinking of giving them Mt. Rushmore treatment and admits this is a pretty hard task.

His criteria, the broadcaster had to:

(a) be good at his job
(b)  have a profound and lasting effect on the team's fan base

Any Ideas?  --CootHeyHey

Mt. Rushmore Turns 70

From ABC News.

Can you name the four presidents on Mt. Rushmore?

The huge monument was declared complete Oct. 31, 1941, just five weeks before the US entered World War II.

** It took 14 years to build and cost $1 million.

** If the carvings were scaled to real life people, they would be 465 feet tall.

** Each head is six stories tall.

** The project displaced 800 million tons of stone.

** The noses are 20 feet long.

** Workers had to climb 506 steps each day. They sure must have been in good shape.

** Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was 60 when he started it.

** He died unexpectedly 7 months before the project was finished.

In case you can't name them all: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.

Definitely Something I'd Like to See One of These Days. --Cooter

Mr. Jefferson's Face

From the Flashback National Geographic page.


The face that you see of Thomas Jefferson on Mt. Rushmore is actually sculptor Gutzon Borglum's second attempt on the third president's face. The first attempt, located to Washington's right, was ruined by a flaw in the granite and was blasted off in 1934.

Borglum's next attempt, to George's left, was successful and dedicated in 1936.

Much of the carving of Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt did not go as the sculptor had planned. Originally, the carvings were to go down to their waists.

I Didn't Know That. --DaCoot