Editing Vin Scully (section)

===CBS Sports (1975–1982)===
From 1975 to 1982, Scully was employed by [[CBS Sports]], where his most prominent assignment was calling [[NFL on CBS|National Football League]] (NFL) telecasts. He worked alongside several different [[color analyst]]s, including [[Sonny Jurgensen]], [[Paul Hornung]], [[Alex Hawkins]], [[George Allen (American football coach)|George Allen]], [[Jim Brown]], [[John Madden]], and [[Hank Stram]]. Scully called [[Dwight Clark]]'s touchdown [[The Catch (American football)|catch]] in the [[1981–82 NFL playoffs#NFC: San Francisco 49ers 28, Dallas Cowboys 27|NFC Championship Game]] on January 10, 1982, which put the [[1981 San Francisco 49ers season|San Francisco 49ers]] into [[Super Bowl XVI]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2022-08-03/vin-scully-played-a-role-super-bowl-improving-fans-experience-play-by-play|title=How Vin Scully helped improve the Super Bowl experience for fans|date=August 3, 2022|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> It was the final NFL game he announced. "This was a hell of a game to quit doing football," he commented.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sharkey-Gotlieb |first=Simon |title=Revisiting Vin Scully's classic NFL career |url=https://www.thescore.com/nfl/news/1111827 |access-date=August 3, 2022 |website=[[Score Media and Gaming|theScore.com]]|date=September 28, 2016 }}</ref>

Scully also contributed to CBS's [[PGA Tour on CBS|PGA Tour golf]] coverage, usually working with [[Pat Summerall]], [[Ken Venturi]], and Ben Wright. From [[1975 Masters Tournament|1975]] to [[1982 Masters Tournament|1982]], he was part of the team that covered the [[Masters Tournament]] for CBS.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://classicsportsmedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/history-of-masters-golf-tournament-on.html |title=History of the Masters golf tournament on TV (1956–present) |date=April 9, 2013 |newspaper =[[ESPN Classic|Classic Sports Network]]}}</ref> He also worked occasional [[Tennis on CBS|tennis]] events for CBS. Scully's CBS commitments led to his working a reduced schedule with the Dodgers, who hired [[Ross Porter (sportscaster)|Ross Porter]] to cover for games that Scully couldn't call.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106867097/if-you-dont-like-scully-you-dont-like/ |last=Sherman |first=Kris |title=If you don't like Scully, you don't like baseball |date=June 26, 1977 |newspaper=[[Press-Telegram|The Independent]]}}</ref>

Scully also had his first of two stints calling baseball for [[Major League Baseball on CBS Radio|CBS Radio]] during this period, broadcasting the [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Game]] from  [[1977 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1977]] to [[1982 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1982]] (usually paired with [[Brent Musburger]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espnfrontrow.com/2016/10/legend-hails-legend-brent-musburger-salutes-vin-scully/|title=Legend hails legend: Brent Musburger salutes Vin Scully|first=Ben|last=Cafardo|date=October 20, 2016 |website=[[ESPN]]}}</ref> and the [[World Series]] from {{wsy|1979}} to {{wsy|1982}} (alongside [[Sparky Anderson]]).<ref>{{cite news |first=Neil |last=Amdur |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/19/sports/tv-sports-artistry-of-scully-dazzles.html |title=Artistry Of Scully Dazzles |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 19, 1982}}</ref>

====Departure from CBS====
According to CBS Sports producer Terry O'Neil in the book ''The Game Behind the Game'', Scully decided to leave CBS in favor of a job calling [[Major League Baseball on NBC|baseball games for NBC]] (beginning in 1983) following a dispute over assignment prominence.<ref>{{cite book |last=O'Neil|first=Terry|date=1989|title=The Game Behind the Game: High Pressure, High Stakes in Sports Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yg-DAAAAMAAJ&q=Vin+Scully|publisher=Harper and Row|page=110|isbn= 9780060160197}}</ref> CBS decided going into the [[1981 NFL season]] that [[John Madden]], whom CBS had hired in 1979 and who had called games alongside [[Frank Glieber]] and [[Gary Bender]] his first two years, was going to be the star [[color commentator]] of their NFL television coverage. But they had trouble figuring out who was going to be his play-by-play partner, since Scully was in a battle with CBS' lead play-by-play announcer [[Pat Summerall]] for the position. At the time Scully was the number two announcer for CBS, a position he had held since 1975, and was calling games alongside the former [[Kansas City Chiefs]] head coach [[Hank Stram]], who had been promoted from CBS' number three broadcast team alongside [[Curt Gowdy]].<ref name="NYTimes2016"/>

To resolve the situation, both Scully and Summerall were paired with Madden<ref name="NYTimes2016">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/sports/baseball/vin-scully-nfl-pat-summerall-john-madden.html?_r=0|title=The Day Vin Scully Didn't Land That N.F.L. Broadcasting Job|last1=Weintraub|first1=Rob|date=May 23, 2016|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref> in four-week stretches, which coincided with each of their respective absences due to other engagements. While Summerall was away calling the [[US Open (tennis)|US Open tennis tournament]] for CBS as he did every September, Scully called the first four weeks of the season alongside Madden. After that Scully went on to cover the [[1981 National League Championship Series|National League Championship Series]] and [[1981 World Series|World Series]] for CBS Radio, as he had done for the past few Octobers, and Summerall returned to the broadcast booth to work with Madden. Scully then teamed with Stram for the remainder of the NFL season.<ref name="NYTimes2016"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Lyons |first=Dan |url=https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/12/29/john-madden-death-vin-scully-tribute-pat-summerall |title=John Madden's death: Vin Scully pays tribute |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=December 29, 2021}}</ref>

After the eighth week of the NFL season, CBS Sports decided that Summerall meshed more with Madden than Scully did and it named him to be the announcer who would call [[Super Bowl XVI]] for CBS on January 24, 1982, at the [[Pontiac Silverdome]]. An angry Scully, who felt that his intelligence had been insulted by the move,<ref name="NYTimes2016"/> was assigned as a consolation prize that year's [[1981–82 NFL playoffs#NFC: San Francisco 49ers 28, Dallas Cowboys 27|NFC Championship Game]], which he called alongside Stram. Summerall took Stram's place alongside [[Jack Buck]] to call the game over [[NFL on Westwood One Sports|CBS Radio]].<ref name="NYTimes2016"/>