The Art of Broadcasting

Many people over look the difficulty it takes to create a sporting game. All the players, coaches, and stadium staff must work together to have a function event. TV personell go through the same difficulties in order to broadcast a sporting. One of the toughest most underrated in difficulty jobs in sports is commentating a sport especially a sport like hockey. In this blog I will try to commentate a few minutes of a playoff hockey game. I will have the game on mute so I don't get any idea. Wish me luck......and excuse the spelling errors, this will be difficult.

Hi and welcome to today's broadcast, my name is Josh Orlan and your tuned into game three of the playoff series featuring the New York Rangers and the Washington Capitals. There is currently 14: 25 left int teh second period and the Capitals have just brokent the game open to a 2-0 lead. Now lets get you down to the game action...

Alex Ovechkin win the draw...Its sent into the low boards, back around to Lombardi who sends it back in...Dubinsky with the puck and he gets tripped up....There is a delayed penalty on the ice. The net minder Lundquivst leaves the net for an extra attacker... and Federov touches the puck to stop play.... Jurincawill be serving two for tripping.... The puck gets dropped int ehj Washington zone... Naslund wins the draw to Avery.. He hands it off to Redden who blasts a shot... ITs blocked in front of the net....Puck comes back out and gets sent down by Mike Green...There is a little scrum in the boards and Avery takes down Semin... That will be another penalty for one of the most heavily penalized men in the game.... The Puck gets dropped in the neutral zone and it is won and brought in by Federov....Federov passes it into Backstom who passes it back to Federov...The puck gets sent to the left boards for Ovechkin who makes a nice move and gets stopped by Lundquivist....The Rangers Naslund then takes it out of the zone...He has some speed and he goes offsides....

This officially ends my broadcast of the Washington Capitals and the New York Rangers... That was about 2 minutes worth of broadcasting. Not only is it missing so much detail a conventional listener would get but it is also only two minutes worth of broadcasting. I was already tired of broadcasting at that point. Anyway the moral of this blog is that we need to appreciate the jobs that commentators do because very few people have the ability to do the job....

Oh and btw the Capitals just scored again making it 3-0 looks like a blow ou to me.