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Originally Posted by Bob M.
REPLY: The PA guy got ejected!!! That must be a story in itself.
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Yeah. This guy was an alumnus who fancied himself as a play-by-play guy, except that he was really bad. To make a long story short, on the play in question, our QB was scrambling around the pocket looking to make a play when the PA guy screamed into the mic, "AND (QB's NAME) HAS (WR's NAME) WIDE OPEN DOWN THE RIGHT SIDELINE."...it was very obvious the QB had no clue. But as soon as that was said, he stopped running, turned to the right, and threw a beautiful pass which resulted in a TD. The other team's coaches were very unhappy.
After a lengthy discussion, the officials let the play stand (still seems wrong for some reason) and excused the announcer for the remainder of the afternoon. I was in the box because the teacher who signed-up to run the clock had no idea what they were doing, so I was helping them. Having just started PA experience with JV baseball the previous spring, I decided to grab the mic (since he left the rosters) and took over.
When the Assistant Principal in charge of athletics found out the next day what happened, he fired the guy and that started me on my path.