Originally Posted by
qcpmsame
+1, Phil and Paul and Bob are great at what they have to work with. The experts here will straighten them out I am sure.
American announcing of non mainstream sports (bicycling, track and field, swimming, soccer to a lesser extent) all suffer from the same problem. The audience is assumed to be ill informed and the announcers are constantly reintroducing the whole sport. Can you imagine if basketball announcers explained why fouls are called in basketball every game?