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    Jackson was the voice of college football, but he really made himself at home in the Rose Bowl

    by Chris Erskine, Los Angeles Times Jan 14, 2018 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES_All I can think: Now Dick Enberg has a drinking pal.

    Keith Jackson was like a big slab of country ham. And a national treasure. We miss him already.

    "The very best place to take a nap is in the back of a cotton wagon," he told me once, in that lovely Southern cadence sports fans loved from coast to coast.

    Jackson, whose death at 89 was announced Saturday, lived for 50 years in the same Sherman Oaks home with views that reached clear

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