OT: Favorite Sport Sounds
So what are your favorite Sounds in Sports?
https://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/sports.shtml
Some of my favorites include:
- a well hit golfball and crack of the bat in baseball
- golfball rattling into the cup
- a baseball hissing through the air
- the perfect swish through the net in basketball
- popping of the pads in football of course
- indy cars speeding by
The heavenly voice of Carl Grapentine in the mic going-
"MICHIGAN TOUCHDOWN"
Also like Carl Grapentine saying "Band, Take the Field!"
Before I clicked on the thread, those two words immediately popped into my head.
Women tennis players
pads were leather, the sound of a puck hitting them could resonate through a building. Old guy memory.
When 100,000+ people yell, "Hail, Hail" ( to Michigan, the champions of the West)
The first note of M Fanfare
Special K. Adds so much "wow" to every experience.
Also a big fan of the Michigan hockey chants (srsly).
WHOOOOOOOAAAAA NELLIE!
The sound of the tennis ball and racquet during a long tennis rally.
The chants from crowds at soccer games.
when a perfectly-thrown punch breaks Conor McGregor's nose.
The sound of 75,000 unwashed rednecks yelling with an angry passion during a WWE cage match.
Crack of the bat on a well hit ball
The sound of a pitch hitting the catcher's mitt
The roar of the crowd on a game-changing play
The sound of a player checked into the boards
The melodious farts of Don Zimmer.
or malodorous?
The roar of the crowd in the Big House at the sight of a big hit!
That roar in particular gives me a primal sense of kinship with the sporting fans of the ancient times, cheering on their own violence-within-sport in the Roman arenas...
Alternatively, the sound in the Big House of an 82 year old blue hair yelling at you to "SIT DOWN" when it's 3 and long and Michigan is trailing by 4 points inside the red zone in the 4th quarter...
Now THAT'S the FauxMo I know!
Engines whining out 800 ponies as the green flag waves!!!
This along with the pit stop burnouts and Jim Nabors singing "Back Home Again in Indiana." Coincidently, someone in our section always happened to be cutting up some onions during that song.
hovering over Lot C waking us to Race Day
sneakers sqeaking on a gym floor
It's great....to be...a Mich-i-gan Wolv-er-ine over and over with your fellow travelers to a foreign land.
This is a great one!
Basically just listen to this:
When too many people in a ballpark thinks a shallow fly ball is a homerun then settle into disappointment in both the play and in themselves.
So like every Cubs fan, then?
Not every Cubs fan. At any given time, half the fans are either taking a selfie or jibber jabbering about the ivy, with a solid 3% complaining about the presence of lights at Wrigley.
"Hi I'm Gus Johnson"
I know it's absolutely terrible and I shouldn't be celebrating it, but nothing beats the sound of a helmet to helmet hit.
The sound of a 90+ mph fastball humming by.
The long, drawn out L calling out the band:
"Lllllllllladies and gentlemen... the 235 member Mmmmmichigan Marching Band. Baaaaaaannnnd, take the field!"
I know it's outdated, but it just gives me good vibes..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnA5HQ0rDA4
Can football just hurry up?
not George Blahblah. Can't stand that guy calling Pistons games or any time I hear him for MSU.
"Drummond slams it down! The Pistons trail by 28!"
Cutting the ice.
my thoughts exactly! skates on fresh ice are my favorite.
Yep, this. And a puck slamming off the glass, a check into the boards, etc.
The sound another man makes when you hit him so hard it knocks the wind out them. Can't quite describe it or put it into words. Almost like someone taking their last breath sound.
That's the sound!
For me it's the early 2000's V10 Formula 1 engines. 20,000 RPMs of pure screeching hellbeasts.
Mid 90's Ferrari V12s are pretty awesome too.
1.) the sound of your skate blade cutting into the ice
2.) a fastball hitting a catcher's glove
3.) crack of the bat
Sound of a ball hitting the sweet spot of a bat. This example is perfect.
Skates on ice
Swish through the net
Crack of the bat
Bronx cheer from the other teams fans
After something amazing happens and you can still hear the crowd buzzing, even though said play was two plays ago.
____ in punt formation. Deep for Michigan, Jabrill Peppers.
Sports are primarily consumed visually, especially thanks to television. The sounds are still heard on tv and radio, of course, but it's not the same. This is a good topic to remind us of other senses that are engaged, especially in person.
Ironically, football is my favorite sport, but the sounds are relatively less appealing than other sports. That is even seen in this thread, where a number of people have mentioned things said by announcers (the football sound that first came to my mind? Howard King: "Good afternoon, and welcome to the University of Michigan football stadium...").
Hockey, to my thinking, is the best sounding sport. There are skates on the ice, crashes on the boards, and sticks on pucks. You can sit close enough to have those sounds assault you in the face in a way not possible in other sports. And it does not come across well on tv.
But worth noting is the incredible noise produced by various forms of automobile racing, which you simply cannot understand until you attend in person. The best of those is probably the old screaming high-RPM F1 engines before they brought turbos back, but other engines are great as well, right down to a nice roaring big block V-8.
on the field at night.
A well hit golf ball hitting the center of a thick tree trunk
Growing up a goalie, one of the favorite sounds was the puck hitting the post.
Was just going to say this!
And it has to be the sound of a well hit post, as opposed to a glance off the post where it still goes in.