Venturing Outside the Square By Matthew C Wallace I hate platitudes. “It’s ALL good.” “Everything happens for a reason.” “It is what it is.” “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I wonder sometimes if folks spew these hackneyed expressions about, more as a reflex when they really don’t know how to respond to something…
Sit There and Shut Up By Matthew C Wallace PA Announcers, Broadcasters, Scorekeepers, and Spotters are the great observers of events and games. We plop in a chair with our jobs to do. We don’t pace sidelines, benches or dugouts. We don’t argue with officials. We don’t bounce off of walls on calls we disagree…
I Love Grapefruits By Matthew C Wallace …with neatly arranged red sprinkles all over them… Over the years, I have found more fun announcing Girl’s/Women’s Fast-Pitch Softball than, I think, any other sport. The athletes are absolutely as competitive as Boy’s/Men’s Baseball but, for me, they are more enjoyable to watch, primarily, because they are visibly…
Tournament Madness By Matthew C Wallace I was thinking about March Madness. The 60+ games in the dance in addition to all those conference tournaments with 7-10 games each leading up to it represent a mountain of announcing effort. Let’s not be cavalier by leaving out the NIT, the fact there are men and women’s editions,…
CAN you Read iT? By Matthew C Wallace Most all of us have stood the twenty feet away, covered an eye and been asked to read the letters off the Snellen Eye Chart. It’s as commonplace as saying, “Ahhhh”, to the doctor while their tongue depressor agitates your tonsils to a gag. Rather than just being…
What Music To Play? Ask Them. By Matthew C Wallace Music Moves the Needle If you’ve got your game day music totally dialed in, skip this entire piece. If, however, you don’t have your game day music under control, read on… At any type of event, music moves the needle, up OR down. The lack…
Being Prepared to Be Prepared By John McBride Mummers Parade Recently, January 2nd, 2022 in fact, I had the opportunity to be the Public Address Announcer for what has been voted the nation’s #1 holiday parade, the Mummers’ New Year’s Day Parade in Philadelphia. It was a near perfect weather for marching in January, and…
Wanna Announce? Start Here! Anyone Can Learn Public Address Announcing that means you too!!! Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. If you have the desire and enthusiasm, go for it! The world needs good public address announcers of any age. Good announcers make a difference for companies, organizations and institutions they work for as well…
The Starters is a video series which gives people a chance to “virtually” hear the starters of critical championship football games early on in the 20th century. This video gives the listener the unique opportunity to step back in time to hear what names such as Red Grange or George Halas might have sounded in…