Originally Posted by EventServices
When I was announcing a race in Lake Placid (1990), I made a comment as I was calling the Cat 4s to the line. Something like "hold on tight, hide the children, here come the Cat 4s!"
One guy came up and yelled at me for an hour about how rude I was to say that.
It was meant to be funny. He obviously didn't see it that way. Made quite a scene about it.
I never used that line again.
The announcer said about the same thing at the Race for Humanity in Fl. something like Look out folks, make sure your out of the way, here comes the Cat 5 sprint!!
After all that it was an uneventful sprint.