SEC Storied returns with movie

The eleventh season of SEC Storied begins Sunday, September 26, with “Extra Than A Voice.” The 90-minute movie, which spotlights iconic soccer play-by-play voices from across the SEC, will debut at 7 p.m. ET on SEC Community.

Within the SEC’s unique rise to changing into a cultural establishment within the South, listening to the soccer groups’ play-by-play announcers on the radio was, for thousands and thousands of followers, the one option to observe most video games. Within the early, nonetheless growing days of tv, the announcers’ calls of the video games turned synonymous with the groups themselves, and people announcers, their very own native legends, turned a part of the material of the convention. There’s John Ward at Tennessee, Larry Munson at Georgia, John Forney and Eli Gold at Alabama, Mick Hubert at Florida, Jim Fyffe and Rod Bramblett at Auburn and lots of extra – with all of their calls defining in-game moments that can by no means be forgotten.

“Extra Than a Voice” is government produced by singer/songwriter Kenny Chesney, produced by Don Lepore and directed by Shaun Silva.

“It was essential for me to be part of this movie, as a result of John Ward was such an enormous a part of my life rising up and loving sports activities in east Tennessee,” stated Chesney. “Along with his voice and his phrases, he painted an image of Tennessee soccer that captured my creativeness and the imaginations of so many. Assembly him was one of many highlights of my life – and I am thrilled to be a small a part of this movie that sheds mild on his genius and so most of the different voices who’ve made the Southeastern Convention actually particular.”

Referred to as “The King of the Highway” by the Wall Road Journal, Chesney has entertained thousands and thousands with high-energy stadium live shows which have been a ceremony of summer season for the final 15 years. The eight-time Entertainer of the 12 months’s ardour for a way individuals join within the second was cast as a teen listening to Ward’s play-by-play of College of Tennessee soccer on WIVK. A hardcore athlete who typically trains with varied faculty {and professional} groups, Chesney holds the report for probably the most Billboard No. 1 Nation Songs, has bought over 30 million albums and topped the all-genre Billboard 200 9 occasions. The East Tennessee celebrity has balanced a profession of holding individuals’s lives in his songs and creating documentaries about sports activities that replicate the identical values, braveness and dedication. That is Chesney’s fourth movie in affiliation with ESPN Movies, following “Boys of Fall,” “The Coloration Orange: The Condredge Holloway Story” and “The Believer” on legendary former SEC soccer coach and 1966 Heisman Trophy winner Steve Spurrier.

“Extra Than a Voice” represents Lepore’s fifth ESPN collaboration with director Shaun Silva, together with the Sports activities Emmy-nominated “The Irrelevant Big,” which Lepore additionally co-directed with Silva. With an intensive skilled life in movie and tv, Lepore’s manufacturing expertise, data and creativity has been an asset to each venture with which he has been related.

With award-winning music movies, commercials, and documentary movies in sports activities and music, Silva has all the time put highly effective storytelling on the forefront of his craft and model of longstanding work at TackleBox Movies, his Nashville-based manufacturing firm. Wanting again on his deep portfolio from greater than 25 years within the enterprise, the fixed all through his physique of labor is the flexibility to ship considerate, good and compelling tales that join, affect and transfer individuals in a really real method.

About SEC Community

The Southeastern Convention and ESPN launched SEC Community on August 14, 2014. The community televises lots of of video games throughout the SEC’s 21 sports activities yearly. Programming consists of in-depth evaluation and storytelling in studio reveals corresponding to SEC Nation, Pondering Out Loud and Rally Cap, day by day information and knowledge with SEC Now, unique content material corresponding to TrueSouth, SEC Storied and SEC Inside, and extra. A whole bunch of extra stay occasions can be found for streaming solely on SEC Community’s digital companion, SEC Community+, through the ESPN App and SECNetwork.com. The community can be out there in additional than 135 international locations all through Europe, Center East, Africa and Asia through ESPN Participant, ESPN’s sports activities streaming service within the area.

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