KeithJackson

Today, ABC college football announcer Keith Jackson told Richard Sandomir of The New York Times that he is retiring ... again. Sports fans will recall that the man with the classic Southern cadence and down-home sayings retired in 1998, only to return the next year to do a limited west coast schedule of games. Eventually he returned to being the network's #1 college football voice, doing games all over the country. Some retirement.

This time around, Jackson, 77, told Sandomir that he was given a schedule by ABC that included east coast games. Since he didn't think that would be good for his health, he decided to retire and "learn to be a senior citizen," despite a lucrative offer by ABC/ESPN to stay. Jackson, who also called baseball and other sports for ABC, was the original play-by-play voice for Monday Night Football when it premiered in 1970. Needless to say, he's been on our TVs for quite some time, and he'll be missed.