Announcers at youth football should tell the fans who carried the ball and who made the tackle.  Give down and distance if you want. Feel free to peddle the fried dough and your sponsors. 

There should be no play by play that includes the formation, motion or anything else like that.  If the players can see it and the booth can see it, then so can the fans.  Why call it out?

The number one job of the announcer is to peddle concession products.

I'm just not sure where these amateur announcers got the idea that anyone wanted to hear their voice. That goes for youth and to a lesser extent HS.  They aren't freakin play by play guys or analysts. They aren't on the radio where people can't see what's going on. 

Seriously, just shut up already.

Professional PA announcers in college and the pros certainly don't do all that yapping.

Dave, do you run Toss with out Larry?

Yes, on a false pull. (We toss right, but pull left.)  So if we ran the play I mentioned earlier, but pulled in the opposite direction, we'd call it, "Loose Right, Lee 36 Toss, Larry-O."  The "O" tag is to designate a pull in the "O"pposite direction.  We do the same thing with our Wingback's motion tags:

"Lee"--Left Wingback goes in our standard motion.

"Lee Jet"--Left Wingback goes in jet motion.

"Lee Orbit"--Left Wingback goes in orbit motion.

"Lee-O"--Left Wingback goes in opposite motion (towards the sideline).

--Dave

Announcers at youth football should tell the fans who carried the ball and who made the tackle.  Give down and distance if you want. Feel free to peddle the fried dough and your sponsors. 

There should be no play by play that includes the formation, motion or anything else like that.  If the players can see it and the booth can see it, then so can the fans.  Why call it out?

There might be blind people in the audience who like the ambience of going to games.

The vast majority of the time, an announcer who gives info like this isn't cluing the other team to anything; frequently they get details wrong anyway.  But I'll admit there might be cases where they'd clue you in to a hidden receiver, someone playing an unaccustomed position, or some such.  Even perfectly sighted people in the audience might like the "feel" of a P.A. style like that, although there could easily be audience members who hate it.  I've been at at least one game where the P.A. announcement was simulcast as play-by-play.

There might be blind people in the audience who like the ambience of going to games.

The vast majority of the time, an announcer who gives info like this isn't cluing the other team to anything; frequently they get details wrong anyway.  But I'll admit there might be cases where they'd clue you in to a hidden receiver, someone playing an unaccustomed position, or some such.  Even perfectly sighted people in the audience might like the "feel" of a P.A. style like that, although there could easily be audience members who hate it.  I've been at at least one game where the P.A. announcement was simulcast as play-by-play.

Can we get a rolleyes emoticon? If a blind person goes to a game, have the person next to them tell them what happened.

Go to a college or pro game. The announcer doesn't describe the formation.

It is a youth football game. Sit and watch your kid play. Let's not make this complicated.

Can we get a rolleyes emoticon? If a blind person goes to a game, have the person next to them tell them what happened.

Yes.  Please...

--Dave

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We have one.

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We have one.

Needs motion.

Needs motion.

How about a shift?

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We have one.

I didn't know that was an eye roll.  I thought it was a guy looking up.  This new technology...

--Dave

I didn't know that was an eye roll.  I thought it was a guy looking up.  This new technology...

--Dave

If you hover over them, a little thing pops up that tells you what it represents.

I actually always thought this one was drooling until I hovered over it the other day and it said crying...whodathunk it  :'(

The vast majority of the time, an announcer who gives info like this isn't cluing the other team to anything; frequently they get details wrong anyway.  But I'll admit there might be cases where they'd clue you in to a hidden receiver, someone playing an unaccustomed position, or some such.  Even perfectly sighted people in the audience might like the "feel" of a P.A. style like that, although there could easily be audience members who hate it.  I've been at at least one game where the P.A. announcement was simulcast as play-by-play.

You guys all make strong points.....

However, I was ASKED by the organization to do the play by play cause the fans liked it..... THEN given shit by coaches who really didn't have a clue like I was helping the other team win.... I never called out motion or any hidden formations.... I merely stated play by play-ish formational crap for offense and defense....

Also I only had like 2 seconds from the time they broke the huddle to the time the ball was snapped to say ANYTHING.  If the defense was that quick to shift to something I said over the PA then they don't need my help doing so....

And I think college announcers and pro announcers don't do it cause 95% of the fans have a frikkin clue about football... The same cannot be said about youth games.... 🙂

for us, even when we were DTDW, every position has their own shift tag call - makes it simple for the players.

TE -
-- Trade (flip sides)
-- Tango (Switch with Wingback - get off the line, WB steps on the line)

WB -
-- Jump (go from wingback to Halfback)
-- Tango -(Called side steps onto the line like a slot end)
-- Flex (go from wing to WR)

FB -
-- Ross (Shift over the Right Tackle)
-- Louie (Shift over the Left Tackle)

so we would have called something like "Tight Right Tango - 88 Power"

now we call something like "Tango 132" (dont need a right/left call because there is only one TE and one wing)

saw a wing T team line up in double tight "T" formation and either run plays from this or shift to 100/900, flex-bone and more. They shifted quickly and would get an advantage here and there, not always but sometimes the defense didnt line up right. One thing I thought was a pretty cool side effect was when they shifted the D would jump off sides or be on 1 knee waiting for the shift and get caught by surprise on a knee.

Couldn't hear what the QB said but Im sure the words he used were not to important, most every coaching staff have their own unique nomenclature.

OCD