Public Address announcer/ Play by play

[j51969]

Originally Posted by fullor30

Anyone in Chicago area remember the P.A. guy who did many big games in Public league, shootout double headers, etc?

Most annoying guy you've ever heard. Similar to the And One announcer. LOUD volume, all about him.

HE"S ONLY A SOPH AAAAA MOOORRRE!!!




DARTANAIN JOHNSON TO THE LINE FOR THE THREEEE POINT PLAY!!!!!

False Double flagrant on announcer. Play resumes with the two smallest players Rho-Sham-BOing at mid court for ball out of bounds at half court. New announcer call the play by play. I can't find the book reference.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by j51969

False Double flagrant on announcer. Play resumes with the two smallest players Rho-Sham-BOing at mid court for ball out of bounds at half court. New announcer call the play by play. I can't find the book reference.

It was in an interp a few years ago.

[j51969]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

It was in an interp a few years ago.

I kinda remember, but was it the two smallest players or captains of the opposing cheer squads???

[bradfordwilkins]

I do a lot of ball in NYC and this is a common occurrence at all age groups for NON-academic league ball. I actually enjoy it

[Terrapins Fan]

so, there's no REAL rule against it.

Thanks. That's what I thought.

[Cobra]

Originally Posted by j51969

False Double flagrant on announcer. Play resumes with the two smallest players Rho-Sham-BOing at mid court for ball out of bounds at half court. New announcer call the play by play. I can't find the book reference.

Ro-sham-bo - A game (usually to solve a dispute) where two men kick each other in the balls as hard as they can. The first person to give up loses.

"That's my duck." "No, I'ts mine" "Fine, let's play ro-sham-bo"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=roshambo

[Time2Ref]

Cobra;641841 :ro-sham-bo - A game (usually to solve a dispute) where two men kick each other in the balls as hard as they can. The first person to give up loses.



I've never heard of that game before. If I had to play, I would want to go first..

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Time2Ref

Cobra;641841 :ro-sham-bo - A game (usually to solve a dispute) where two men kick each other in the balls as hard as they can. The first person to give up loses.



I've never heard of that game before. If I had to play, I would want to go first..

If I knew ahead of time of that possibility, I would probably have on my catcher's gear.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Cobra

Ro-sham-bo - A game (usually to solve a dispute) where two men kick each other in the balls as hard as they can. The first person to give up loses.

"That's my duck." "No, I'ts mine" "Fine, let's play ro-sham-bo"

Urban Dictionary: roshambo

Shouldn't there be a forum for the officials?

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Cobra

Ro-sham-bo - A game (usually to solve a dispute) where two men kick each other in the balls as hard as they can. The first person to give up loses.

The Urban Dictionary has the following account of the etymology of this word:

After: Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807).

As a lieutenant general, comte de Rochambeau commanded the French expeditionary army sent to help the American Revolution during 1780 to 1782. His skillful leadership and professional wisdom were vital to the American-French allied victory at Yorktown in September 1781.
Rochambeau was so skilled at kicking the British's balls in battle, that his victories were called "Rochambeau's".

His name, in corrupted spelling, became slang for any number of contests or confrontation resolved by competitive nut-kicking.

Hey! I'll roshambo (Rochambeau) you for the last beer!
( etiquette usually dictates that the challenged gets first kick .. unless he's an idiot).

Turns out that there really was a comte de Rochambeau who helped the Americans during the Revolution, and his name has gone to everything from USN ships to playgrounds!

I'm not sure I believe this as an etymology, but somebody in Urban Dictionary-land is thinkin'!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Turns out that there really was a comte de Rochambeau who helped the Americans during the Revolution.

When he passed through Connecticut, in June, 1781, on his way from Newport, Rhode Island, to Yorktown, Virginia, he set up his camp right down the street from me. He entertained his officers at one of our local taverns. Every once in a while, somebody digs up some Revolutionary War artifact at the encampment site.

Once somebody found an old metal whistle with "Mark T. DeNucci, Sr." engraved on the whistle. Really.