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RIP hot rod

The ghost of hot rod tipped that rudy free throw in... Hots is gone but still with us...
 
I remember listening to him and Boone talking about "closing the refrigerator door." Jeff Malone was shooting the Jazz back in the game, and he took what we would call a "heat-check" three to tie it or take the lead. It went in and Boone said, "you know how when you close the refrigerator door it creaks right when it shuts?" And Hots goes, "That was the creak!"

I ****ing didn't appreciate Hots enough, and I thought he was the greatest.
 
Hot Rod was the greatest. That's what makes Locke so hard to listen to. Hot Rod set the bar way too high.
 
I was camping all weekend but I brought a little radio with me so I could listen to Friday and Saturday night jazz games while I was in the mountains.

Listening to the game Friday night I found out the sad news. I got choked up...... felt like I lost a relative
 
I always thought that Hot Rod was the best in the business. Better than Chick Hearn, Johnny Most, etc. Maybe it was because he was in a small market that he never got the credit he deserved...

For whatever reason, this is one of my all time all-time favorite moments listening to Hot Rod: Back in the 80s, there was a game where Mel Turpin got a small shiner by his eye...as he was shooting free throws, the color commentator (forget who it was) said that a steak should be put over his eye to bring down the swelling. Hot Rod quickly responded, "You kidding me? If you put a steak on Big Mel's eye... he'll eat it!". LOL.

RIP
 
Revolution 9 said:
Some many memories. So many games as a boy listening to Hot Rodisms describing Stockton to Malone. Thank you for being a part of my life. You are the best.
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Well said, this is so true for me. Whilst watching two of the best ever play the game was good by itself, his calling during the game made it even more special.

As Hot Rod said, "Stockton to Malone. You have to be able to say it like it's one word."

RIP.
 
Very sad to hear about Hot Rod Hundley the other day. RIP to a great broadcaster, a true professional
and a guy who was a GREAT, GREAT basketball player!! Never really a homer but brought excitement, fun,
passion and exuberance to each game he called. Definitely will be missed. From his days at WVU to his time on CBS tv
doing games to all his years with the Jazz. He was awesome. So much a part of it all.
 
In Kurt Kragthorpe's column on Hot Rod (https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2342114-155/kragthorpe-utah-jazz-legend-hot-rod) he says the Jazz should give everyone the chance to see the Hot Rod Hundley Media Center at the ESA):

And now, I'm insisting that the Jazz figure out a way for every fan to visit that room sometime this year. It's something they've got to see, to help them remember an unforgettable man.
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Has anyone on here gotten to see the HRH Media Center?
 
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