I was kid when Raf made his famous, “SEND IT IN, JEROME!”. i was watching the game with my dad, and that play/call was so exciting… I announced my plans to go to Pitt for college. Lol! Thankfully, I outgrew that idea… but last night Raf threw it back when Martin threw it down! This may be my favorite sports call of all times! Bill Raftery broke out iconic call for Florida's Alijah Martin's epic Final Four dunk
I have now watched this clip about 300 times. I can't stop! The audio of the dunk itself is unreal. Unbelievable moment, and what a call by the best in the biz!
All of us can be soooo very happy for Elijah Martin!! What a great and fantastic story behind this man. Extreme kudos to Coach Golden and his staff for bringing Elijah to Florida!
Dunk happened right in front of me. Next level stuff right there. Thanks for sharing the call as I obviously missed it being there live
Same thing I thought of. Classic call. He definitely saved it….didn’t spend it on the previous breakaway.
I just sat across the isle from Raft on the plane ride back to ATL!! I’m an idiot and literally tell him as we are getting onboard, “Hey, did anyone ever tell you you look like Bill Raftery?” He’s like yeah, I’ve got it a few times.
Ha! I feel like I’ve shared almost all my nuggets from my adventures across the country. Here’s another one. Bumped into Jim Boeheim on the Riverwalk before the championship game. Said he had Florida in a close one and he agreed with me that a game against Duke would have played to our strengths more.
that’s great! And I don’t think your oversight- not recognizing him- was a big deal… just nickel-dimer!
