Why do TV sportscasters SHOUT the SPORTS news, especially the NAMES?

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[Oeditpus Rex]

1. HAVEN'T YOU HEARD?

SPORTS ARE LOUD!

IS THIS A LOUD THREAD?

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2. I CAN'T HEAR YOU

[u4ic]

3. I hate to think

what the local hockey talk show host's blood pressure is...:scared:

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4. Does he get excited when they show a fight?

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11. It's radio

but the idgit gets excited over everything. :eyes:

Didn't think it would be world shattering news when a player dons a new helmet. :shrug:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. It's part of the great brainwashing system to convince Americans

that sports are the most important thing going on in the world at any given moment.

Actually, sports are pretty dull much of the time, so the sportscasters have to act as if they've just witnessed some kind of miracle to keep the fans interested.

I took my mother to the doctor yesterday, and there were multiple copies of three different newspapers lying around in the waiting room. Most of the men who came into the waiting room picked through the piles of newspapers and extracted ONLY the sports pages.

One even went and picked out the sports pages from ALL THREE papers, leaving the rest behind.

(I'm convinced that this "brain dead except for sports" syndrome is one reason why women over 30 complain about the lack of decent men.)

[Fox Mulder]

6. I don't even touch the sports section in the newspaper.

I usually just toss it aside and only read the news (and the comics, of course)

BTW, I read the Star Tribune (since the endorsed Kerry in '04). :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Well, the bozos in the waiting room were getting the

sports pages from the Strib, USA Today, and the Pioneer-Press.

(It's not as if your team is going to fare any differently if you check out their results in three different papers.)

I also find the "just the sports pages, ma'am" syndrome in my local coffee shop in Linden Hills, which is REALLY discouraging.

[havocmom]

8. Used to think I hated sports on TV

Turns out, it was the announcers I hated. Watching with sound off is better.

[catmandu57]

9. To make it EXCITING

I like watching some sports, it's the guys on the news doing the sport segment I can't stand, I rarely watch them.

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10. Actually I meant sportscasters on the news, giving summaries of the day's

sports - they seem to shout and almost lift up from their seats when doing the sports news.