"Uncle Verne" Lundquist is turning the 2016 SEC football season into a farewell tour.
CBS confirmed months of rumors today by announcing that 2016 will be Verne Lundquists’s last calling SEC football games on the network. Lundquist has been in the television business for 53 years and called just about every type of sports competition you could want to watch. But it has been over the past decade calling the SEC’s weekly marquee matchup where he has really endeared himself to those who enjoy honest enthusiasm mixed with canned storylines and name mispronunciation so bad it makes Mama want to come out of the stands and hit somebody.