PA Announcers

[KeithK]

In my mind, Bob Sheppard is the gold standard by which PA announcers are judged.  Professional and classy all the way.

As someone recently said to me, the Colgate PA announcer is a perfect example of what not to do.

[RichH]

[quote lhayes]I love Arthur Mintz's style (especially "Good evening, hockey fans" -- our family's standard get-psyched phrase for years now).  The announcer who always drove me crazy was at Princeton, with announcements for "Princeton TIGERRRRRR goals."  As Al says, it's bush league stuff.  We don't need it.  And my impression this year was that Princeton now agrees, though I couldn't be sure since the PA was so inaudible.[/quote]

Back in the mid-90s (OK, I know I'm doing too much of the "back in MY day" stuff recently), the guy who did the PA for Cornell basketball was almost as bad as the Colgate guy.  In his repertoire:

"THUNDERRRRRRRRRRR FROM DOOOOWWWWWWWN UNDERRRRRRR!!!"
"TICKLES THE TWINE FOR TWOOOOOOO!!!!"  etc. after every score.
and he would "Michael Jordanize" the CU players' names:
"BRANDT........SSSSHHHHHHHHHUCKMANNN!!!!!  FOR *THREEEEEEEE!*"

Maybe it was fun for some of the kids in the crowd, but we just laughed at (and were embarrassed by) him.  I remember shouting "go to Syracuse" or something like that.  The rumor was that when he left, he went to Syracuse.