The mic is always listening.
Never, ever assume there’s dead air. Thats the best lesson you can teach anyone in the radio industry, and yet you can make it all the way to being the announcer for an NHL team, while still struggling with that information. On Friday morning the Flyers dropped a bizarrely cryptic post about “inappropriate comments” made on their official radio broadcast, and for the most part people were confused.
After all, in order to have caught the moment you would have needed to be listening to Flyers hockey, on the radio, in the year 2025. Safe to say it was a fairly small subset of people who heard what went down, but the audio came to light shortly after and everything made sense.
“While you’re down there would you mind blowing me?!”
It’s not just the question being asked, but the classic radio gusto with which play-by-play announcer Tim Saunders asked former Flyers player, and his co-host, Todd Fedoruk. Then the realization of being on the air and the deafening silence that followed.
Ultimately it was a dumb, but fairly benign moment. A dumb joke people have a penchant for making. The two game suspension for Saunders is a slap on the wrist, and hopefully a cautionary tale to remember that the mic is always hot.
Category: General Sports
