Dave Johnson (sportscaster)
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Dave Johnson (born May 25, 1941) is an American announcer and sportscaster, best known for his work in horse racing with ABC and NBC Sports and at various race tracks in New York and New Jersey. He also called races in California.
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- From Coffee Mugs to T-Shirts
- Synonymous with Big Races
- A Twist of Fate
- ‘They Don’T Know How Old I Am’
- ‘It Can’T Change and It Shouldn’T Change’
‘And down the stretch they come!’ became so widely known that others started profiting from it without asking permission to use it. From Amazon selling coffee mugs and t-shirts, to major newspapers using it in advertisements, to movies scripting the famous phrase to drive the narrative of a scene – it’s all happened. By 2012, Johnson had become unc...
“Dave made his mark in racing, but he has never forgotten what it gave to him, so he wants to give something back to it,” said Mollica. “He is synonymous with big races, and his catch phrase is synonymous with all that is good in racing. “When he called me about this, he made it clear that anything he recovers, he gives away. People talk that talk ...
The fact Johnson even had a career in horse racing is something that still surprises him. In his 20s, he was working for a law office and going to school with dreams of becoming a trial lawyer. The law office had a box at Cahokia Downs in St. Louis, and he was a frequent visitor. One night the announcer got sick after the first race and couldn’t co...
In the early 2000s, Johnson retired from race calling, but he has done a Sirius XM radio show for the past 16 years. Appropriately enough, it is called Down the Stretch. Although Covid-19 altered how the radio show is recorded, it did not put a stop to it. “It’s still so much fun to do, and they don’t know how old I am by how I sound,” joked Johnso...
“It can’t change, and it shouldn’t change,” he said. “Mainly it shouldn’t change because it works. Racing has some terrible problems, but this is the only thing that works and works really well. People still get involved with the Triple Crown. The national media is all over the Derby and what happens after. I would hate to see that change. “It capt...
After four more months at Triple-A -- his fourth year at the level -- they came calling. Johnson was to pitch the second game of a doubleheader in Boston, the surprise Orioles clinging to a one-game lead atop the AL East. But as was the theme of Johnson’s career, nothing ever came easy.
Oct 5, 2022 · After nearly three decades calling games on TV, Dave Johnson’s tenure as DC United’s play-by-play announcer will draw to a close this Sunday, when the local professional soccer team wraps up its season.
Dec 27, 2018 · “It’s in the net!” The words stopped Dave Johnson in his tracks as he strolled through his neighborhood. It was the late 1990s, Major League Soccer was just a few years old, and Johnson...
Johnson, who grew up in the St. Louis area, spent five years (1972-77) as the track announcer for Belmont, Aqueduct and Saratoga racetracks in New York State, also doing a local TV racing show with Charlsie Cantey and Frank Wright.
Dave Johnson believes in soccer and believes in Annapolis. That combination has driven one of America’s premier soccer announcers and the Washington D.C. market’s most visible media personalities to commit to the Blues.
