Tim Griffin
Sports reporter/columnist | San Antonio Express-News
About this Author
Tim Griffin has been a journalist for more than 30 years working at a variety of newspapers and websites, including more than 25 years at the San Antonio Express-News. He has covered all four Spurs NBA championship series victories, along with 12 national championship football games and five Final Fours. Griffin has been honored nationally and regionally for his writing and enterprise and was a former national president of the Football Writers Association of America. He is a graduate of the University of Memphis and is married with one son.
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Larry Carlson interviews Tim Griffin, former FWAA President
Not many people roaming the planet have covered more college football than Tim Griffin. And I'm certain that only a handful have covered it as well. Griffin, a former national president of the Football Writers Association of America, has covered 14 national championship games while writing for the San Antonio Express-News, ESPN.com, CNN, Sports Illustrated.com and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
He now works as a content manager for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times after relocating to the Coastal Bend to punctuate his journalism career in the sunshine. Griffin has worked in it all...newspapers, websites, radio, television and multi-media platforms.
Tim is a Memphis boy and earned a degree from Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis). We met and became friends back in the late '80s, covering Houston Oilers training camp, when the Oilers had a youngish DBs coach named Nick Saban. We share many interests -- college football, down home eateries, old TV and movies, classic soul music and, off-the-beaten-path travel -- and were both raised on college football via the radio. I've been fortunate to share football and food with Tim, from San Antonio to Lubbock, Birmingham to Baltimore, Memphis to Atlanta to Glendale to Robinsonville, Mississippi and even Toronto, Ottawa and Winnipeg. Griff is a connoisseur of "meat and three," the Southern standard, and introduced me to Buntyn's in Memphis and Mary Mac's in Atlanta. And I can testify that he and his wife, De De, know how to host a stellar backyard barbecue and stir up a savory batch of gumbo.
So when we met for supper a week ago, and again spoke of the joys of college football on the radio, I wondered why it had taken me so long to bother Tim for some insights into the great game for Texas Legacy Support Network. Here, below, are his responses.
By the way, in Tim's words, he has "a deep appreciation of the art of announcing" those radio games, dating back to a transistor on the pillow as a kid. He cites John Ward (Tennessee), Cawood Ledford (Kentucky), Larry Munson (Georgia) and "the pairing of Bill Schoening and Craig Way, on Texas football from back in the day" as favorites.
Sports reporter/columnist | San Antonio Express-News
About this Author
Tim Griffin has been a journalist for more than 30 years working at a variety of newspapers and websites, including more than 25 years at the San Antonio Express-News. He has covered all four Spurs NBA championship series victories, along with 12 national championship football games and five Final Fours. Griffin has been honored nationally and regionally for his writing and enterprise and was a former national president of the Football Writers Association of America. He is a graduate of the University of Memphis and is married with one son.
SIX POINTS
Larry Carlson interviews Tim Griffin, former FWAA President
Not many people roaming the planet have covered more college football than Tim Griffin. And I'm certain that only a handful have covered it as well. Griffin, a former national president of the Football Writers Association of America, has covered 14 national championship games while writing for the San Antonio Express-News, ESPN.com, CNN, Sports Illustrated.com and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
He now works as a content manager for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times after relocating to the Coastal Bend to punctuate his journalism career in the sunshine. Griffin has worked in it all...newspapers, websites, radio, television and multi-media platforms.
Tim is a Memphis boy and earned a degree from Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis). We met and became friends back in the late '80s, covering Houston Oilers training camp, when the Oilers had a youngish DBs coach named Nick Saban. We share many interests -- college football, down home eateries, old TV and movies, classic soul music and, off-the-beaten-path travel -- and were both raised on college football via the radio. I've been fortunate to share football and food with Tim, from San Antonio to Lubbock, Birmingham to Baltimore, Memphis to Atlanta to Glendale to Robinsonville, Mississippi and even Toronto, Ottawa and Winnipeg. Griff is a connoisseur of "meat and three," the Southern standard, and introduced me to Buntyn's in Memphis and Mary Mac's in Atlanta. And I can testify that he and his wife, De De, know how to host a stellar backyard barbecue and stir up a savory batch of gumbo.
So when we met for supper a week ago, and again spoke of the joys of college football on the radio, I wondered why it had taken me so long to bother Tim for some insights into the great game for Texas Legacy Support Network. Here, below, are his responses.
By the way, in Tim's words, he has "a deep appreciation of the art of announcing" those radio games, dating back to a transistor on the pillow as a kid. He cites John Ward (Tennessee), Cawood Ledford (Kentucky), Larry Munson (Georgia) and "the pairing of Bill Schoening and Craig Way, on Texas football from back in the day" as favorites.
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