You want a good comparison?
Don Cherry.
For the most part, the man is a doofus. However, his passion for Hockey, and his unapologetic bias for sportsmen from his home country, while remaining respectful to all the other competitors (except for the Russians when they first came to the NHL but that's another story) does very little but good for the sport.
When I was a kid and had not yet discovered F1, I was over at my friends place who has English parents. I knew what racing cars were, and I knew that there was racing cars that only the English watched. That was all I knew, wrong or not.
We were off in the other room playing with toys or something, but to this day I can still remember the voice of Murary Walker getting more excited then any man should about a gearbox. He makes _everything_ a spectacle.
Murray has no special commentating skills, except the passion that is required in spades. Years later when I got into F1 I remembered Murray Walker, and it was this experience when I was young that helped. The man can scream into a mic and only sounds better.
Murray's passion, much like your bitterness, can be contagious.
So, ISLAMATRON, what he did that was special was pull many F1 fans into the fold that were not there before.
I guarantee that if Martin Brundle was commentating, I wouldn't have remembered that 1st race.
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