Howard David is a veteran American sportscaster.
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Over the years, David has been the radio play-by-play man for several pro sports teams including the NBA's New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks, and Boston Celtics, and the NFL's New York Jets and Miami Dolphins. He also had stints with the New York Cosmos soccer team and as the voice of Princeton University basketball and football.
Howard David was discovered by Mizlou Television Network President Bill Schwing while working as a morning Dee Jay in Trenton, New Jersey. He soon became the top announcer for Mizlou, covering more than 300 sporting events including major college football bowl games, NIT basketball, NASL soccer, and college bowling. Many of these games can still be seen on TV4U.Com
David also worked for the CBS Radio (later Westwood One) network as lead play-by-play voice for its Sunday Night Football coverage until 1995, when he was promoted by CBS Radio to take Jack Buck's place on the network's Monday Night Football broadcasts. In 1998, David added a second full-time position when he joined WFAN (also a CBS property) to become the play-by-play voice for the New York Jets after Ian Eagle became a part of CBS television's return to NFL coverage.
David's Jets duties took precedence over his Westwood One duties, requiring a substitute when the Jets would play on Monday night or in the playoffs. One prime example of this came on Conference Championship weekend in 1999. At the time, CBS would send the Monday night crew to cover the NFC Championship Game, which featured Falcons and the Vikings in Minneapolis. However, the Jets had also advanced to championship weekend and were to take on the Broncos in Denver later that afternoon. David followed the Jets' broadcast team to Denver while John Rooney, one of the network's secondary announcers, called the NFC title game alongside Matt Millen.
At the end of the 1999 season, the Jets returned to their long time radio home at WABC and David followed them there while keeping his contract with Westwood One. Following Super Bowl XXXVI, David left the Jets and departed Westwood One to take a position in Miami, where he served as the Miami Dolphins' radio voice on WQAM and also hosted a talk show on the station. His contract was not renewed after the 2004 season. After his assignments ended David returned to national broadcasts, becoming one of SportsUSA's NFL voices. He called games for that network until 2008.
While working for the Dolphins station, David became embroiled in a feud with radio personality Neil Rogers, who tagged David with the name "Moe Howard David" and continuously mocked David with Three Stooges-type comedy bits featuring Moe and his sidekick, Steve "Goldy" Goldstein, another personality on the same station. Rogers and his listeners referred to him long after David left the station, with Rogers regularly playing a clip of the Moe character saying "doy doy doy." Rogers left the station in 2009.
Currently, David is one of Westwood One's NFL voices, having replaced Bill Rosinski in the booth for the Sunday doubleheader coverage the network carries. He also is a substitute for Dave Sims on Sunday night when his other broadcasting endeavors leave him unavailable. David is joined in the booth by Dan Reeves.
In 2006, David provided hand-by-hand coverage for many events at the World Series of Poker for Sirius Satellite Radio. He is currently trying out for the time slot vacated by the departed Tony Bruno on Sporting News Radio.
| Preceded by Jack Buck |
Monday Night Football national radio play-by-play announcer 1996-2001 |
Succeeded by Marv Albert |