Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. That’s why we put these together, hoping it can be helpful somehow to someone!

Hi Brian. Thank you for the feedback! I've never used JV players or student managers for pronunciations, but they sound like they can be another option to get correct pronunciations. Personally, I've always gone to the coach at this level. This lets me go over other housekeeping things with them as I also get names (and maybe even starters!). For HS, the clock stops in the last 5 minutes if the winning team makes a substitution. I double checked this with the NFHS and some local HS coaches I know. This prevents the winning team to waste time on a running game clock by substituting toward the end of a game. The "time of goal" for soccer (...in the 35th mute...) doesn't carry over to field hockey, or lacrosse. Those sports goals are announced by the time on the clock. I can see your point about announcing offsides, especially as an educational piece to your announcing. I've explained fouls in FH and lax myself, when time allows during games, so I can see your point here. The fans certainly appreciated it! As for injuries, I'm going to stick with saying nothing, or playing no music. I feel that the risk of interrupting any communication on the field related to the injured player far outweighs saying anything. I guess that I would suggest going over this ahead of time with your district's athletic director. Also, a resource officer, that may also be a local police officer may have good insight, since they would work directly with any emergency personnel on scene. I will pass your ideas on about your suggestions for future tutorials. I've announced results of other school's teams at halftime when I did a lot of HS games as well. You're right, it gives some kudos to these other teams and may even generate some fan attendance at upcoming games! Thank you again for taking the time to offer some constructive feedback. We appreciate it! Glad you likes the tutorial! Please feel free to pass on the link to the rest of these videos to your athletic director, or any other PA announcers you know.

Believe it or not, sir, we are in editing and production on the Soccer vid. It will be out by the end of the week.

Hey Joe, Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad that this was helpful for you! I don't know what I could've said to help with a fog bowl though! You'll have to tell me how it went.

@@tomwiniecki3057 Me and my spotter had to count the yards and hope we were right. When a play went to the far side to the field I relied on the refs to see where they spotted the ball to know if it was a first down or not. Luckily I was able to see who took the handoff as pass plays for both sides unless they were within 5 yards became impossible. Hope to never have that experience again..LOL

The PA System goes back to 1913 but, yes, 99% would have been on a megaphone. You can see a bit more about all this here: www.publicaddressannouncer.org/history-of-pa-announcing/

I'm glad that you were able to find this helpful! That's why we are doing this!!

This will come as a grand surprise to many but... Sammy Baugh was, in fact, a halfback. Riley Smith busted a blood vessel above his knee in an August 1938 exhibition game between the Redskins and the College All-Stars on August 31, 1938. The Redskins lost to the Cecil Isbell led All-Stars, 28-16. It was such an embarrassing lost for the defending champions that they hustled directly on to their bus after the game. Smith did not know this until the next day but, he injured his leg during the game. He did not play again until October against the Lions. In November, Smith was knocked unconscious twice in the same game against the Chicago Bears. He could take no more. The leg injury, in particular, had taken its toll. On December 9, Riley Smith retired and took a backfield coaching job for Washington and Lee. Most considered him the best player in football, better than Baugh, for the 2 1/2 seasons he played. The team regarded him as the brains behind their success and a brilliant play caller. Everyone on the team referred to him as "General".

First, Glenn Presnell and Dutch Clark spent much of the time trading off on Quarterback duties. So, since they swapped, not too big of surprise Presnell started then Clark entered. Frank Christensen was more of a blocking back and punter. The Lions considered Frank their #1 blocking back so, of course, he got the start as he normally did. Presnell and Clark were scorers, Christensen blocked. In fact, Clark was the NFL leading scorer in '35 w 55 points. How did they often get there? Christensen was blocking. So, the point is that it was never a choice between Clark and Christensen. It was a choice between Clark and Presnell. Plus, the Lions expected much punting. Frank was their punter. The Lions averaged about 13 punts per game. They expected as much in the title game. Ken Strong, the Giants' punter, was the best in football at the time. Frank practiced extra punts just for the game. Interesting stuff. Hope my response was accurate and helped.

Me too! Good luck!

Thanks! Same to you. @@phoenixbrown15

I'm happy this is helpful for you! I'm glad to hear that the explanations were clear and compete. Please let me know what you'd like to see in upcoming videos.

I'm so glad that this was helpful for you! That's why we are doing this! This is a sport that I've played, coached, officiated and announced, so I can see it from all those perspectives and use that in my announcing, not only for basketball, but for all the sports I announce. Again, thanks for your feedback.

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