Preds to Celebrate 90s Night by Reuniting Weber, Crisp on TV Broadcast

The band is getting back together for one night only.
Tuesday's game at Bridgestone Arena between the Nashville Predators and the Toronto Maple Leafs is 90s Night, and while there will be plenty of totally awesome activations in the building, the duo that will call the game on Fox Sports Tennessee will also bring about plenty of nostalgia.
The Voice of the Predators Pete Weber will join his original broadcast partner Terry Crisp on the television side for Tuesday's contest, the perfect way to commemorate the occasion and give viewers a blast from the past.

"I'm very excited for it," Weber said. "I'm going to have to go back to that scene out of 'The Blues Brothers' where they're assembling the band and we get R-E-S-P-E-C-T and all of that."
When the Preds first began play in 1998, Weber and Crisp weren't just the men whose voices were broadcasted through the television and the radio dial, they were the soundtrack to something new in Middle Tennessee. Between Weber's call of the game and Crisp's analysis and passion for what's playing out on the ice, they taught the viewers and listeners to love hockey in those early days, helping to build what the Predators have become in Nashville.
Weber is now the play-by-play voice on 102.5 The Game and the Predators Radio Network, but he and Crisp shared a rapport that few others in the business had. Crisp now reports from the Fox Sports Tennessee desk for pre- and postgame duties, and there is usually a line waiting to say hello or snap a photo with one of the few to win the Stanley Cup as a player and a coach in the NHL.
"He's honest, he's enthusiastic and he loves the game," Weber said of what makes Crisp so good at what he does. "And anybody who has walked by him right now up by the Fox Sports Tennessee Zone at Bridgestone can see how he honestly responds to what's happening on the ice."
As serious as the games got at times, there was always room for humor between the two, and one of Weber's fondest memories never even made it to air, although Crisp sure thought it was at the time.

Weber recalled a game in Nashville on April Fools' Day, and the chance to celebrate the holiday was too good to pass up.
In his own words:
"We had always done all of our opens live, nothing taped, and there was that safety net that was never there. Our director of broadcasting at the time decided we would pull a little trick on old Terry. We would accelerate the clock, we wouldn't say we were taping anything, he just never paid attention to the clock, so five minutes ahead of when we would normally go, we start with the whole thing. The plan was as they counted down to us to start the open in our head piece, 5, 4, 3 and at 3, I began to cough, and then at 1, I walked off the shot. Terry is left there by himself and his eyes got as big as saucers, and he is reaching out trying to grab my belt loop and pull me back because he didn't want to have to open up the show. What came out was, 'Well, good evening, everybody, and the Philadelphia Flyers have a whole bunch of injuries as they come in here tonight,' which is nothing that we had planned at all going into all of that… But our cameraman was laughing so hard the camera was bouncing up and down, so he sort of knew something was on at that point in time."
There is always the potential for hijinks when those two get together, and although it remains to be seen what will come from Tuesday's broadcast, one thing is certain - everyone will wish it was still the 90s.
"Just getting together and doing it again will be fantastic," Weber said. "I'm not going to have any need for an adrenaline shot from Tuesday morning onward until the game is over. Who knows, I might be totally spent by the time the game is over, but it's going to be a heck of a good time."