# NBA..Atlanta Hawks PA Announcer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-atlanta-hawks-pa-announcer/447903>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 3, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-atlanta-hawks-pa-announcer/447903 "2008-05-03T16:42:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-atlanta-hawks-pa-announcer/447903/1 "2008-05-03T16:42:00Z")

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Congrats from a Celtics fans on the Atlanta Hawks forcing a Game 7. While I hope you lose, this has been a gutty performance on your part.

However, watching the game last night, I was pretty pissed off at the fucking PA ANNOUNCER chanting “defense, defense” and doing other cheerleading duties, even while the ball was in play.

If this is a new thing in sports and I should return to the paleolithic era, then I apologize, but I think it is terribly unsporting and used to be against league rules.

Don’t even get me started on those big white dick-shaped balloons that every fan bangs together in every sporting event.

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**Author:** ![tsm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tsm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsm)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-atlanta-hawks-pa-announcer/447903/2 "2008-05-03T22:01:38Z")

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The Mavs announcer does that too. Bugs the crap outta me.