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Old Tue Sep 26, 2006, 01:14pm
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Originally Posted by JasonTX
The announcers are feeding the fans with lots of bogus knowledge. They often make up their own rules and the fans believe every bit of it. We all suffer from all this misinformation through the abuse that fans dish out. Anything regarding the rules should be off limits to the announcers.
Or, the announcers could just educate themselves, as I have done.

I have found it to be a great help in broadasting to have been an official, and I think they all (and that includes the armchair critics and the ones in the stands) should try it for a season to see how difficult it is and to understand why things happen the way they did in this instance.

BTW, who were the announcers in question?
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