The new Voice of the Saints knows there'll be many a touchdown call in his play-by-play future, but he knows better than to plan for those moments.
Mike Hoss said he's highly anticipating the start of his new venture calling Saints games when the preseason kicks off next month, but he's going to live in the moment when it comes to his "signature" calls.
"It'll just have to kind of happen," Hoss said in an interview this week. "I've thought about it and I know that if you write down what you think is going to be cool, it's going to sound horrific."
Hoss, a longtime sports and newscaster with WWL-TV, was introduce last month as the successor to Zach Strief as the Saints play-by-play announcer alongside Deuce McCallister.
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MORE FROM MIKE HOSS
WHAT ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO AT SAINTS TRAINING CAMP?
"Obviously a quarterback competition [between Jameis Winston and Taysom Hill], that we have not seen in a long, long time. ... Back in the day that's all the Saints had. Training camp was all about the quarterback competitions. You had John Fourcade and Steve Walsh and Bobby Hebert, and then you had the Billy Joes, Billy Joe Tolliver and Billy Joe Hoberg, Jeff Blake and Aaron Brooks, and so you were always looking at the No. 2. It was always this competition. We've been incredibly, as we've said, spoiled with Drew [Brees], with winning and really his overall health."
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WHAT'S CHANGED MOST OVER YOUR THREE DECADES AROUND THE SAINTS?
"The fanbase is the fanbase, the best ever. Period. I don't care. I've been on podcasts the last few weeks with people all over the country, because the Saints are huge everywhere. ... I think, to me, the thing now is that winning is expected. It's a winning attitude from the front office to the waterboy, to everybody. To every human in that building, it's nothing but about winning.
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"From '87 through '91-'92, they were a good football team and got beyond being the 'lovable losers.' But it was not a winning attitude that permeated everything. Now from '06 and Mickey Loomis, what he's done there, you've got long-term people, ... and so you've got this mentality that winning isn't something that's desired, it is something that's expected. And I wouldn't say that was always a part of this franchise."
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CAN THIS TEAM MAINTAIN A HIGH-POWERED OFFENSE WITHOUT BREES?
"I think they change the mentality a little bit. ... really moving forward, this team might think, well we'd better -- they always say 17-22 [points] in that range, if you do that from a defense, you've done your job -- and maybe if that philosophy is really the new team moving forward, 'hey we can't give up 31, we've got to give up 17.' But, who knows? Maybe this offense is going to average 30. Nobody knows. That's the beauty of this, we don't know, and the other 31 teams don't know. They don't have any idea what this offense is going to be like."
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