Defending the announcers

[Jimgolf]

It seems to me that the general tenor of this board is that people who are not officials have no business criticizing officials because they are not qualified since they have never officiated.

Yet posters on tbis board frequently complain about announcers, even though I haven't heard of any posters being professional announcers.

You have no idea how much work goes into being a television color commentator for a major sporting event. First, they must study the six words you cannot say on television. Second, they spend upwards of an hour getting their hair sprayed. (There should be a medical study investigating the link between hair spray and forgetting basketball rules.) Thurd, they get pounded with pancake makeup.

You have no idea.

Walk a mile in their patent leather shoes before you complain.