TV, R school

A simple question: Do radio and television sports guys speak passive as hell on purpose or is Yoda like the national chair of every TV and radio school?

I just watched a replay of yesterday's game in Pitt., and as the winning FG was being kicked, the announcer said, "The kick is up ... good, it is."

Yoda speak seems to be the standard, not only in that game but in every game I watch or listen to. Why?

 

I did all three in school. Never were we told to speak that way. (See what I just did there?)

It might have been a slip, but I don't know. I wasn't listening. It sounds -- and reads -- stupid, so I don't think any professional broadcaster would make that his or her style.

 

You mean, "Never told to speak that way, we were."

 

i was just giving one instance, mike. almost every stinkin' play-by-play guy in the country speaks like yoda. and it seems like national guys aren't any better than local guys when announcing games, either.

 

it's good, like Nedick's

 

Makes them seem wiser, it does.

...or so they think.

 

Indeed

 

just uttered ... "and with a first-down play, tomlinson."

WTF?

 

or "open is jackson."

 

I think it's time to write your Congressman.

 

Perhaps in a situation like this, it's because the first thing you can ID is that a guy is open. It takes a second longer to figure out who he is. So you tell your viewers first that a guy's open or that a guy just picked up a first down or whatever, then you tell them who it is.

But then, I'm not a broadcaster. I just make fun of them.

 

Rick Romo prefers the active voice.