Broadcasting Experience
- College basketball analyst, NBC Sports and CBS Sports
- Basketball analyst, 1988 Olympic Games
- Color commentator for CBS Sports' March Madness
- Perhaps his most famous line as commentator came during the 1992 NCAA Tournament, when McGuire blurted out "Holy mackerel! Holy mackerel! Holy mackerel!" following a game winning buzzer-beater by Georgia Tech's James Forrest.
- Following his broadcast of a 1996 NCAA Regional Championship, McGuire garnered fame for dancing with the players of Syracuse who were celebrating their entry into the Final Four. He would do the same the following year with the players from the University of Minnesota. The Minnesota players proclaimed they wanted to "Get down with Al!"
- McGuire's broadcasting career was capped by a warm and poignant reunion less than a year before his death. When Dick Enberg joined CBS Sports in 2000 after a long career with NBC, McGuire was able to be reunited with Enberg and longtime CBS commentator Billy Packer. Late in the 2000 season, the trio called its final game together, nineteen years after working the 1981 national championship game for NBC.
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