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Delight Yourself With An Announcer’s Pratfall Off A Stool

Over the weekend, Xavier took down Dayton in an 86-83 overtime thriller. Star Musketeers guard TU Holloway had 32 points. It was Xavier’s 27th straight home win over Dayton (especially surprising considering Dayton’s had plenty of solid-to-good teams in recent years). But of all the facts and figures one could analyze from such a game, the number we’re most concerned with is one. Why? Because that’s the number of times announcer James Bates comically fell off the stool he was sitting on:

Bates is right: that was not a big-time stool. The one set of legs came off like the whole thing was made of construction paper. He deserves some credit, too, for playing the whole thing off admirably, given he was (understandably) flustered. While the fact that Bates didn’t drown in a pool of his own profuse swearing after falling like that (as we probably would have) is too bad for our own entertainment purposes, it was a good thing for the broadcast. And really, asking for any more than him tumbling straight down to the ground would be getting greedy anyway.

Thanks to reader Justin for the tip.