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For Super Bowl broadcasters, game 'boards' are an indispensable booth secret

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74% Informative

Fox is broadcasting Sunday 's Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs .

The announcers use a large sheet of heavy-stock paper loaded with player names, numbers, statistics and sometimes annotated trivia.

"None of it is read,” said legendary CBS play-by-play man Jim Nantz , who has worked seven Super Bowls .

Al Michaels relies on "Malibu" Kelly Hayes , who has been his spotter for every football game since 1978 .

Daryl Johnston , a Fox color analyst, knows how to put a good board together.

Curt Menefee , Fox studio host, had a rudimentary method in his early days as an NFL Europe play-by-play announcer.

VR Score

74

Informative language

70

Neutral language

44

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

28

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not offensive

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medium-lived

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