Tim Brando

Did you know…

• That Tim Brando is the 2009 Jake Wade Award Winner. It’s an Annual Award given by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Past winners include Keith Jackson, Dick Enberg, Tony Barnhart, Robin Roberts, and Dick Vitale.
• That Tim Brando is the Host of two time Emmy Award winning Series Football Saturdays in the South.
• That Tim Brando was the winner of the Distinguished American Award in 2001 given the National Football Foundation North Louisiana Chapter.
• Tim Brando’s 15th year with CBS, and next year will be my 13th as Host of The College Football Today.
• My work with the syndicated group Raycom, (formerly Jefferson Pilot) DATES BACK OVER 20 YEARS IN BOTH THE SEC AND ACC.
• Tim Brando is in his 8th year of being the Pre-Season television voice of the 2010 Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints.
• Tim Brando is in his 25th year of broadcasting Nationally, beginning with ESPN, later with Turner Sports, Fox SportsNet, and now CBS Sports.
• Brando’s been broadcasting in the SEC for over 30 years, and actually began calling play by play at age 14 alongside his Father, Hub Brando, nearly 40 years ago.
• Between 1994-96 Brando worked both Atlanta Hawks, and Atlanta Braves games including the 1995 World Series Champion Atlanta Braves.
• Tim Brando has called 26 different sports, and 25 of those were on ESPN BETWEEN 1985-94 still considered an individual record for one broadcaster at the Network.
• Tim Brando covered a Tornado during a basketball game at the 2008 SEC Basketball Tournament in Atlanta. It was a unique set of circumstances chronicled in a 2010 edition of Storm Stories produced by the Weather Channel.
• Brando’s Dad Hub helped put the 1st television station on the air in the 50′s, and had 3 live television shows at that time. The children’s show “tops for toys”, “Search for Talent” , AND the Hub Brando Variety show which lasted til the mid 60′s in his hometown of Shreveport, La.
• Tim, a drummer, and singer with his Dad’s band performed in places like Harmon Newfoundland, Goose Bay Labrador, and Islands of the Coast or Portugal at SAC Air Bases with his Dad’s band Hub Brando & The Dreamers.
• To this day, I love everything RAT PACK! Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
• It’s from this upbringing my love of television history, and Musical History came from.
• After my Dad’s band and television career ended I turned to sports broadcasting as something I loved and had always wanted to do.
• While in high school and college I worked in local radio and television, including as a disc jockey where I worked with the Father of Blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepard. Once Ken Shepard (Kenny Wayne’s Dad) would allow Brando to play the role of Roadie, with Kenny Wayne’s group when he first visited the David Letterman Show.
• Needless to say no one had a clue the guy toting the guitars was really Timmy B IN DISGUISE. ,Hence the 70′s rock, and R&B love affair listeners hear each day on my radio show.
• Brando’s love of College football, and basketball is obvious, but it does not keep me from being critical of what’s wrong with each.
• By example, the BCS WORLD IN CRISIS COUNTDOWN EACH DAY IS A REMINDER OF what’s desperately wrong with the sport I feel represents more of what’s right than any other sport.
• The sound effect where the gravel voice say’s the “WORLD IN CRISIS was taken from a 90′s web site know as Homestarrunner.com, with a character STRONGBAD!
• Brando’s daughter Tiffany tipped him off to the site when the countdown began in November of 2003. That year, Brando correctly predicted that USC could finish number 1 in both the AP, and Coach’s Polls and yet be left out of the BCS National Championship game.
• As it turned out LSU did play Oklahoma not USC for the National Title in New Orleans, while the AP opted to give USC the final #1 ranking.
• The meaning of the Brittany update….some may think we’re poking fun at her, but the truth is we are making fun of Entertainment news.
• Celebrity jock sniffing has become a joke in this country. She’s talented, and from Louisiana and while there have been issues she’s rebounded each time. The problem has never been Brittany, it’s rather the fascination with her that’s out of control.
• Brando still considers the FINAL FOUR the nations number 1 amateur sporting event, and SEMI-FINAL SATURDAY AS THE COUNTRY’S BEST DAY IN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS.