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The Art of Spotting: Your Gateway to the Broadcasting Booth
I want to focus on something specific to football broadcasting: the art of spotting. While statisticians help with basketball and baseball, football uniquely requires someone to quickly spot what's happening on the field. (Soccer and hockey might use spotters too, but I can't speak to that since I haven't called either professionally.)
There’s two reasons it’s important to talk about using a spotter for our purposes of making the most out of a broadcast:
