High School sports mainly done in smaller communities. I have called the local HS football, basketball, & baseball for the past 17 years. Some conference games are over 3 hours away so it’s not always a case of “driving 5 minutes” to go watch it in person. A lot of the local folks can’t make it to those games and can follow on the radio. Also we stream live on the internet so the alums who don’t live in the town anymore can follow…….we also had a coach whose Dad was in Iraq listening to the football games at 4am local time.
Have called games with future NFL’ers Grant Wistrom, Ladell Betts, Brandon Loyd, Gijon Robinson, and a few others. NBA, MLB, and NCAA players too.
It’s difficult to imagine, I suppose if you live in a bigger city, having the local games on the radio. I grew up in a Chicago suburb and we had one game that was on the radio and we went nuts. Not a big thing in smaller towns and not all that uncommon.
High School sports mainly done in smaller communities. I have called the local HS football, basketball, & baseball for the past 17 years. Some conference games are over 3 hours away so it’s not always a case of “driving 5 minutes” to go watch it in person. A lot of the local folks can’t make it to those games and can follow on the radio. Also we stream live on the internet so the alums who don’t live in the town anymore can follow…….we also had a coach whose Dad was in Iraq listening to the football games at 4am local time.
Have called games with future NFL’ers Grant Wistrom, Ladell Betts, Brandon Loyd, Gijon Robinson, and a few others. NBA, MLB, and NCAA players too.
It’s difficult to imagine, I suppose if you live in a bigger city, having the local games on the radio. I grew up in a Chicago suburb and we had one game that was on the radio and we went nuts. Not a big thing in smaller towns and not all that uncommon.