1. Lawrence Harry Munson was an American sports announcer and talk show host.
18 Facts About Larry Munson
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Larry Munson was best known for handling radio play-by-play of the Georgia Bulldogs football games from 1966 to 2008.
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Larry Munson handled the play-by-play for UGA basketball and Atlanta Falcons radio broadcasts and hosted sports-related talk shows.
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Originally from Minneapolis, Larry Munson attended Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis and Minnesota State University Moorhead.
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Larry Munson served as a United States Army medic in an Army Hospital during World War II.
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At KFBC, Larry Munson met and became friends with co-worker Curt Gowdy.
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On January 1,1946, Larry Munson called the Sun Bowl between the University of Denver and the University of New Mexico for the Associated Broadcasting System.
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In March 1966, Larry Munson was in West Palm Beach, Florida, for the Braves' spring training and read in the Atlanta Journal that Georgia Bulldogs football radio announcer Ed Thilenius was resigning to become a broadcaster for the new Atlanta Falcons National Football League franchise.
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The next day, Larry Munson called Georgia athletics director Joel Eaves to express his interest in the Georgia job, and Larry Munson was hired shortly thereafter.
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Larry Munson continued to live in Nashville until 1978 when he moved to metro Atlanta, after joining the Georgia Radio Network as a reporter.
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On September 22,2008, Larry Munson announced his retirement from being the play-by-play announcer for the University of Georgia Bulldogs.
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Larry Munson was inducted into the Georgia-Florida Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
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The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association awarded Larry Munson its state-based Sportscaster of the Year Award on multiple occasions: 1960,1963,1964,1965 and 1969 as the Tennessee Sportscaster of the year; 1967,1971,1982,2002 as the Georgia Sportscaster of the year.
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In 2007, Larry Munson was presented with an honorary varsity letter from the University of Georgia for his contributions to Bulldog football.
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Unlike many of his peers, Larry Munson avoided any pretense of journalistic objectivity or accuracy during his broadcasts.
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Larry Munson called the Georgia-Georgia Tech game which was at Georgia Tech in 2007.
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Larry Munson provided the voice of God in an episode of the Adult Swim original series Squidbillies.
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Larry Munson died in Athens on November 20,2011, after complications from pneumonia.