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Remembering Verne Lundquist's SEC on CBS career

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ATLANTA -- There have been enough tears on this Verne Lundquist farewell tour fill a production truck.

"I'm an emotional guy," said the 76-year-old face of the SEC on CBS. "I cry at the opening of a refrigerator door -- especially if there is a ham sandwich inside."

As the moment draws near when we will no longer hear and see Lundquist on football Saturdays, the inevitability has sacked us.

On the eve of his last SEC on CBS game with Lundquist -- the two will link up one last time for the Army-Navy Game on Saturday, marking a record-setting ninth call of the game by Verne -- producer Craig Silver began the usual Friday production meeting last week with a lump in his throat.