[NU Sports] annoying fans and PA announcers

[Tom Maycock]

--- Roy Lamberton <rstetson at capps-assoc.com> wrote:
> NU sells the signage at Ryan and I have to assume they also sell
> spots on the
> video system too.

There's definitely advertising both on the board and via the PA, not to
mention sponsored promotions (like the pass, punt, and kick
competition, etc.), nothing new there. And I don't really have a
problem with it.

With respect to the score updates (and the trivia quiz), those are now
being delivered by some who I definitely think is a student, who
appears on the big screen. He's usually stationed up on the "touchdown
terrace" part of the time and in the south endzone part of the time.
Scores are also shown on both the north and south scoreboards--and more
frequently now than in the past. 

The student does an OK job with the updates, but until it was mentioned
here, it didn't occur to me how much I enjoyed our wonderful PA
announcer's suspenseful delivery of the "big" scores. I'll bet he
misses doing them. 

But I would agree that we don't need boneheaded fan interviews,
fireworks or other artificial noisemakers, or any of the other stuff
that is becoming all too prevelant at professional stadiums. 

Tom