Hear the voice of Jackson, and you might know the football situation on the television called for gravitas, even if the unpretentious voice did manage to arrive at gravitas without trying. Hear the voice, and you might know you’re shirking an errand, and you might not care. The voice took a technical game of stupefying moments and 100,000-strong crowds and distilled it to its humanity. “Phil Fulmer went to see George Cafego, who was an absolute legend in Tennessee football history, two days before he passed away,” Jackson then said, referring to the Tennessee coach and Cafego’s death the previous February. I’ll be watching.’ ”Then, in a turn only Jackson would make, he continued, “Good night, George.

Source: Washington Post January 13, 2018 20:48 UTC