[NU Sports] annoying fans and PA announcers

[michael.vance at att.net]

Michigan State's PA announcer used to be at the opposite extreme.  His tone used to be total deadpan, no matter who had the ball and no matter what they did with it.  He made comedian Steven Wright and Ben Stein's "Bueller... Bueller" look lively.  We haven't been up there in a couple of years, but if I remember correctly, last time we were there he had a little more inflection.  It may have even been a different guy.

And NU's out-of-town score updates are downright frequent compared to what you get at Ross-Ade.  Some Purdue fans were complaining about it before the game last week and sure enough, they were right.

I'm not sure I like the reporter on the field at Dyche though.  It strikes me as someone's RTVF project and without accompanying video (which would make it cool) it doesn't add anything.
 
--
Michael 
mailto:michael at vance.com


-------------- Original message from Jonathan Hodges <jonathanwhodges at gmail.com>: -------------- 


> Obviously the announcers always give a home-team slant and it's hard 
> to go into another stadium and appreciate their announcers. I do 
> agree that the Big Ten/Top 25 scores should be posted more regularly. 
> Right now they appear during some timeouts and between the quarters 
> depending on if a promotion is going on at the time. I don't see why 
> they couldn't dedicate one half of the south end zone board to scores 
> and the other half to the promotion. Also, the scores sometimes seem 
> to be delayed significantly at times. They added the on-the-field 
> reporter recently as well for the trivia quiz and score reports, which 
> really doesn't do much in the stands where you can see the whole field 
> anyways and can't hear it really well. 
> 
> Jonathan 
> 
> On 10/19/05, Brad Wilson wrote: 
> > It's funny about this kind of thing. We like the NU PA 
> > announcer -- though I find him over the top -- but my 
> > Wisconsin friends who come to Evanston can't stand 
> > him. 
> > 
> > I can't stand Penn State's lion growl but our 'Cat 
> > roar doesn't bother me. 
> > 
> > I suspect we like what's "ours" and dislike what 
> > isn't. 
> > 
> > On that front, could we get more out-of-town scores 
> > announced at Dyche? BT, ND, Top 25, would be nice. And 
> > about every 15 minutes would be good. 
> > 
> > bw 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "Entertainment is what which you receive without effort. Art is something 
> where you must make some kind of effort, and you get more than you had before." 
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> > 
> > "Quis ipsos custodes custodiet?" -- Juvenal 
> > 
> > 
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