Introduction from Sherilyn...

This has to be the best section of the www.talkdarts.co.uk. This had me absolutely in stitches - only Sid Waddell and Phil Jones have what it takes to commentate on darts with such humor and panache!

In our effort to find our next world champion, especially in the US - who will do the commentary for live darts on television? Sure, we could import Phil Jones and Sid Waddell, but chances are they are pretty busy folks. Yes indeed, growing our own home champion means finding and mentoring a darts commentator with the same wonderful stuff of Sid Waddell!

My idea? Hold a contest for college students to submit their own darts commentary demo video tape - we need to find American commentators to keep the sport of darts alive, especially on live television!

What do you think? Send me your comments, and be sure to think out of the box...the E-mail link is at the bottom of this page. Until then, enjoy Sid Waddell's awesome and one of a kind comments about the sport of darts. Boy, can this man think off the cuff. Will there ever be another like him? Hope so.

From TalkDarts.co.uk: The Voice of Famous Darts Commentator Sid Waddell. The booming Geordie voice of Sid Waddell is now synonymous with darts. He is the Murray Walker of his sport and here is a collection of some of his most memorable efforts.

* Bristow reasons...Bristow quickens...Aaahhhhh, Bristow.
* Jockey Wilson...What an athlete.
* That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!
* He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed
* Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter
* The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips...you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them
* Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.
* It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline
* Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out
* His eyes are bulging like the belly of a hungry chaffinch
* That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.
* It's the nearest thing to public execution this side of Saudi Arabia.
* His physiognomy is that of a weeping Madonna.
* He's as cool as a prized marrow!
* Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.
* He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.
* The pendulum swinging back and forth like a metronome
* His face is sagging with tension.
* The fans now, with their eyes pierced on the dart board.
* He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.
* That's like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank
* As they say at the DHSS, we're getting the full benefit here.
* There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions.
* The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!
* This lad has more checkouts than Tescos.
* John Lowe is striding out like Alexander the Great conquering the Persians
* I get the same effect when I see Steve Davis, I just see two letters... C & S... Cue Sorceror
* By the time of the final on Sunday he should be fit to burst!
* There's only one word for that - magic darts!
* Keith Deller's not just an underdog, he's an under-puppy!
* I don't know what he's had for breakfast but Taylor knocked the Snap, Crackle and Pop outta Bristow
* Even Hypotenuse would have trouble working out these angles
* Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.
* If you're round your auntie's tonight, tell her to stop making the cookie's and come through to the living room and watch these two amazing athletes beat the proverbial house out of each other.
* When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer... Bristow's only 27.
* Eat your heart out Harold Pinter, we've got drama with a capital D in Essex.
* If we'd had Phil Taylor at Hastings against the Normans, they'd have gone home.
* He's playing out of his pie crust.
* They won't just have to play outta their skin to beat Phil Taylor. They'll have to play outta their essence!
* Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.
* Look at him as he takes his stance, like he has been sculptured, whereas Bobby George, with his bad back, looks like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
* He's playing like Robin Hood in the Nottingham Super League
* Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet... and he's in a darts orbit!
* The atmosphere is a cross between the Munich Beer Festival and the Coliseum when the Christians were on the menu.
* Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train!
* He's like D'Artagnan at the scissor factory.
* One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time
* If you had to throw a knife at your wife in the circus, you'd want to throw it like that

From The Talk Darts.co.uk Website...
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