Stupid announcer buzz words

[nc mudcat]

After seeing the thread about driver nicknames, which I personally hate, I thought of something else that bugs me: stupid buzz words or phrases said by announcers trying to be cute. I'll start with the 3 worst, in my opinion, picked up from late model races while watching on FloRacing:
1. Bull horns out
2. Time to cowboy up
3. Turquoise laundry

Anyone else?

[riddle28]

yelling slide job when its not a slide job

[Pennsboro32]

Or 3 wide when they're not even close to 3 wide.

[Highside Hustler25]

Or 3 wide when they're not even close to 3 wide.

Yes Mr. James Essex.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

Crown jewel

[bleedblue55]

No announcer is more annoying then WOO Sprints Johnny Gibson. He's the very definition of screechy, screaming cliche's. Oh Baby

[champion24]

No announcer is more annoying then WOO Sprints Johnny Gibson. He's the very definition of screechy, screaming cliche's. Oh Baby

Wrong site, BB55!! A lot of folks on here probably haven't heard him! We all have those that bug us more than others. Some of mine are dynomite, get something yummy for your tummy, drop the hammer, oh baby, etc.

[MRM]

The #1 driver in the country

[ride height]

I filled in at the last moment as announcer at our local track last Saturday nite. It was fun but...It had been a long time since I did any announcing. It’s not easy. The people announcing on the big circuits are talented people with of course different styles. I wish I was half that good. You find yourself repeating certain phrases because you get comfortable with them....I’m guilty of it. Mine is “time to get some dirt in our Dew. Your job is to make it sound exciting even if it isn’t. It’s your job. Give these guys a break. Most of them are very good at it even if you don’t like their style.

[dirtSLMracing]

The main thing that ticks me off is when announcers are trying to sound exciting or cool but give the wrong information. For example "3 wide off two" and it's 2 wide at best with a guy looking... getting the number of laps wrong in the heat race or last chance racing calling 2 to go when it's 6 to go.

[backspace]

I heard an announcer say one time while they were pushing a sprint car to pits that the clutch was out

[LM1]

Giving out lap times in hot laps (nobody cares)Popsicle sticks2nd quick time when only 2 cars have gone or fast time when they're the first carPersonal opinion but 2 of my favorite announcers are in sprint cars (Johnny Gibson and Blake Anderson). Also love Essex, DJ, and Ben Shelton.

[dirtSLMracing]

I think it was last year an announcer was trying to sound exciting and said the wrong driver was leading at Port Royal.. but they were at Portsmouth. 2 mistakes.. lol

[427c.i.]

Smoother than cream cheese on a bagel.
Lockstep formation
2x2x2x2
Drove that one in there almost to (insert nearby city)
caution is out...caution is oooooouuuuuuuuuttttttt!!!

But the most annoying thing to me is when the announcer is babbling on about gawd-knows-what under caution, doesn't see something that's going on and then tries to act like whatever he should have noticed he saw it all along and makes a fool of himself trying to fill in the gaps he missed.

[Josh Bayko]

Every announcer in racing has catch phrases that get annoying.

[NeedforLM$peed]

When they sound like a WWF or WCW wrestler cutting a promo 25 years ago

[Pennsboro32]

It's funny reading some of these phrases and I can hear in my head exactly who says them.

With that being said, there's no better two than Dustin Jarrett and James Essex. They're knowledgeable, informative, and funny without being over the top.

[bleedblue55]

Amazing nobody has mentioned Wesley yet

[Paradox28]

"its going to be a barn burner"

[gumby_32d]

B-Mods gettem' ready, you're next

[JimBo]

When they scream, "Throw a blanket over them" it is annoying to me.

[Mud Packer]

When they scream anything it annoys me. I might be slightly hard of hearing but I'm not freaking deaf yet.

Another thing that annoys me is the amount of silence when race cars aren't on the track but yet they never seem to have time to give you a lineup UNTIL the cars hit the track.

[Buford.Justice]

Or 3 wide when they're not even close to 3 wide.


That's a big one!!!

[formercrewguy]

"THE FIELD OF THUNDER"........I hate that guy.

[NeedforLM$peed]

When Eshelman says "The most powerful late models on the planet"

[wfo2007]

"THE FIELD OF THUNDER"........I hate that guy.

It’s ‘Dixie Feel The Thunder’. Bob Dillner

[Buford.Justice]

Should be a good one!!!!! Yeah right, the track is burned up.

[84wedge]

They're twobytwobytwobytwo

[Late_Model_Mark]

This is a good post. I have listened to the best in over 51 years in both drag racing like Steve Evans, Dave McCleland, Bernie Partridge and Bob Frey, the oval side with Ted Otto, Joe Volkhomer, Johnny Gibson, Eschelmen, Essex, Shelton and the oral beauty of Perry Holman, and have
learned a lot and still learning.

Have heard the babblers, screamers, screachers, and the yellers, and their is a difference . I try to not be annoying, have diarrhea of the mouth and be decent. It still ain't easy to not foul up and be annoying. Announcing is not easy. You will have folks that think you suck, or fairly decent.

A couple of things that get me is when announcers say the leader is coming up on "LAPPED TRAFFIC" when nobody has yet to go a lap down. Or when there are 2 cars racing and they say it is two wide, it is side-by-side, when there are 3 cars racing then it is 3-wide.

It is a difficult deal calling a race in the tower with a bevy of distractions, I have had fans come up and ask me to do a birthday wish and such while calling qualifying.


But I do love it all.


Late Model Mark
TST Announcer

[fastford]

hey , I will put you up beside any ive herd , you do a fine job LMM......

[jr29]

I despise the way announcers have taken to calling the racetrack the "racing surface." Some do it incessantly.

[LM1M]

Calling a rear quarter panel a fender.

[t3r3e3]

I’m not gonna bag on the bad ones, but Mike Norris, Michael Despain, Dustin Jarrett, and the guy who announces for Cedar Lake are pretty good.

[Raceready]

"racing door handle to door handle" and "hub to hub" !

[EDERDS]

Saying that a track that has been terribly prepared or locked down track “Has Character”

[WisWildManFan]

Most the time I’m just happy I can watch a dirt race from my house. All I ask for is good video feed.

[Barbecueboy]

They get paid every time he says” Dixie chopper feel the thunder”…….not sure why that’s so hard for folks to understand…….that’s what they pay them to say.

No different than the “ boogers septic cleaning hobby stock division” announcements they make.

[dirtSLMracing]

BBQ..

Yep they have to take care of sponsors. My only complaint with that is they manage to put that huge logo right over the cars taking the green flag.

[Josh Bayko]

I’ve only ever heard the expression character used for tracks rougher than the Baja 1000.

[Barbecueboy]

BBQ..

Yep they have to take care of sponsors. My only complaint with that is they manage to put that huge logo right over the cars taking the green flag.

It’s paid for too…..I don’t mind it for the first lap….dilner gets a lot of crap on occasion but I like him, even with the faux paux moments…..we all have them.

I can’t stand the term” gaggle of cars”

[EDERDS]

Josh Bayko

I’ve heard broadcasts numerous times call a locked down track as a track having character.

[Hoosier]

SCREAMING: (divisioon) you're next, get to staging