Public Address announcer/ Play by play

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by bas2456

And boom goes the dynamite

Idiot at my game this evening used that one a couple of times.

[BillyMac]

We have a guy here in my little part of Connecticut who announces the foul immediately after the preliminary signal. As I'm heading to the reporting area I hear, "Big Walnut Tech foul on number eleven, Bobby Smith, his third, team's sixth". It can be very distracting. I only work there once every few years, and I have to ask him to be more patient every time. I guess other officials are not as distracted as me. Of course, I have problems remembering the fouler, and the foulee, under the best of circumstances. Double fouls are a nightmare for me.

[tjones1]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

We have a guy here in my little part of Connecticut who announces the foul immediately after the preliminary signal. As I'm heading to the reporting area I hear, "Big Walnut Tech foul on number eleven, Bobby Smith, his third, team's sixth". It can be very distracting. I only work there once every few years, and I have to ask him to be more patient every time. I guess other officials are not as distracted as me. Of course, I have problems remembering the fouler, and the foulee, under the best of circumstances. Double fouls are a nightmare for me.

There was a guy who did that in college games around here. The only problem is sometimes he'd have the right number and sometimes he wouldn't. Obviously, when he didn't, the coach would go nuts saying "you just called it on someone else. blah blah blah" Those college officials didn't like it too well and lets just say they found a new announcer.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by tjones1

There was a guy who did that in college games around here. The only problem is sometimes he'd have the right number and sometimes he wouldn't. Obviously, when he didn't, the coach would go nuts saying "you just called it on someone else. blah blah blah" Those college officials didn't like it too well and lets just say they found a new announcer.

Last yr I finished my FB/JVB set and stayed to watch the V game.

I went into the locker at half time with the officials and among my questions and comments I asked about a particular backcourt call the "PA announcer announced." I said it didn't look that close to me. He looked at me and smiled and said - "That's because I signaled a carry!" Hmmm.....

[buckrog64]

More common in football probably than basketball is to have the PA guy act like he is on the radio. The problem comes when he announces on the personal foul for face mask that it's an automatic first down. Then when the five guys in the stripes on the field don't give a first down, they must be the ones who are wrong.