Years ago I did play-by-play for a private high school in Arkansas. They went undefeated, which made the job fun, and played a Missouri team in the play offs. A radio station in Miz paid me to allow them to simulcast my broadcast and asked if I could be impartial. My local team got mad at me because they said I appeared to be favoring the Miz team.
I have called HS football and basketball off and on since 2002. I was 16 when I started.
When I am calling a game. I don’t care what area im in. I try to be the same and take the middle road.
I was calling a playoff game once and there was an interception returned for a touchdown and the score was then 28 to 19. I said something like “That may do, it may be slipping away (from the losing team) now. I happened to be in that schools press box. And this guy came up to me and time that I had a bad attitude and he would see to it that I would never be able to broadcast a game there again. LOL. I kid you not. The next year I went back to the same place and as I passed the same guy and he said hi.
sports and bring out the extreme emotions sometimes