Unlike most occupations where a minor fuck up generally has the chance to go unnoticed, or at worse politely chided and corrected, the treacherous role of a TV announcer, is not one of them.
Considering the worst a few mis-typed words could go astray for most of us is a quick facepalm when you notice you wrote “chers” instead of “cheers” and hope the email recipient doesn’t send back a If I Could Turn Back Time gif, spare a thought for old mate Dick Stockton, whose little mishap will now live on for eternity on the world wide web.
“NICE TYPO DICKHEAD” – Rick from Accounts.
Dick Stockton, in addition to being gifted the kind of name a very bad erotic novelist would come up with, is a footy announcer for Fox Sports in the US, who, whilst calling yesterday’s NFL game between the Jaguars and the Rams, got a bit too committed to his teleprompter.
In extremely Ron Burgundy fashion, Dicky boy forgot to process the words going from his eyes to his mouth, accidentally reading out… well the bit he DEFINITELY was not supposed to.
Dick Stockton is Ron Burgundy? pic.twitter.com/lN4qBppmIc
— Andrew Joseph (@AndyJ0seph) October 16, 2017
“Look on graphic for the final two bullet points.”- Dick Stockton, 2017.
Kudos to the gents for just rolling along as if that didn’t happen though. That’s some good teamwork by any means.
That’s all for now. You stay classy, San Diego.
