Announcing Penalties

[Kirby]

I try to announce just as if I was mic'd up. Matter of fact, I commute to work 45 minutes each day, so I continually go over scenarios and how I would announce them in my head just to keep myself awake!

[MJT]

Definitely just as if you had the mic, but louder cuz you don't have one.

[Warrenkicker]

I have verbalized while signaling fouls for years. In fact at the quieter middle-school and JV games it is easy enough to tell everyone what happened. Once I even gave an explanation of a situation to the crowd at the end of a varsity game. There was a tie-breaker issue and we had to reassure both teams that we had no need to run the try.

[glyphrunner]

I always verbalize my calls and explanations. This (usually) alleviates the need for explaining to the non-deciding players and coaches again after giving the signals.

Also, as Warrenkicker stated but also at a lot of our varisty games, the crowds are generally so small that I can let everyone know what's happening. Sadly to say, turnout for football games at all in this region (NE North Dakota / NW Minnesota) is sketchy at best.