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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Yeah---his call in the first was pretty embarassing---good thing he caught the mistake just before the wire though.
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Was it Clem McCarthy who miscalled the Preakness way back when? He was a veteran of calling many sorts of sports on radio, including football games. Uniforms being what they were in those days, and games played on often muddy fields, he sometimes got the wrong player breaking away towards the goalline; but as soon he noticed the error, he would announce that the player he was calling would lateral to the correct player and would have the right player get the touchdown. His response to questions about his Preakness error was "You can't lateral a horse."