J. Paul McConnell (circa 1979): Long-time radio voice of the B.C. Lions is retired in southern France.
The gifts of a great play-by-play broadcaster are interwoven to the point where it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact appeal.
Is it genetic — the timbre of the voice — or the training, the timing and the descriptive ability to paint imaginative word pictures on airwaves?
Who knows?
All we know is that good broadcasters are prepared, ...
