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This past Friday I got my first chance to use a microphone. In Kansas there are very few teams who splurge on a piece of equipment like this. Some teams can hardly afford footballs. I had always wanted to use one as I could explain what happened much better than the announcer trying to interpriet signals that can mean 20 different things. I loved having it. There were two main situations where I thought it came in extremely useful.
I called roughing the passer. The contact was not late and was not long or involved throwing the QB to the ground way after the pass. The DE came in high and hit the QB in the head with an arm. I was able to explain why I had roughing because of the blow to the head.
The second was an unusual situation where there was a fumble where only BJ saw it. Everybody except BJ and the kid with the ball thought it was going to be second down. Then BJ said he had B with the ball. The clock hadn't stopped at the end of the play (a different issue, not clock operator fault). I was able to explain that it was B's ball and that the clock should be reset.
I know that some WHs might not feel comfortable enough with their public speaking abilities to use these but I think a mic on the WH is extremely useful. I wish I could get my hands on one each week.
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