I had to make a quick post to say thanks to (and brag about) Paul McCann, the Nashville Predators PA announcer, for doing a huge favor for us.
For those that haven’t seen, our oldest son, Ian, is a huge Predators fan (like his parents, of course). One of his favorite parts of the game is the starting lineups. He cheers loudly through them, and frequently asks us to play intro videos from YouTube when he’s playing. Then a while back we started introducing him like he was a hockey player (I think my parents started it, actually). He loves it and frequently asks for us to do it “a-gin”. Over and over again. (Sometimes he also introduces himself)
See the video below for an example:
So that leads to what Paul McCann did for us.
I was thinking one day how cool it would be to record a custom audio clip for Ian of the full intro, including laying it over AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck”, maybe adding crowd noise, etc. Then I thought, “Hey, I used to kinda know Paul McCann. Still talk with him on Twitter, etc occasionally. Why don’t I just ask…” So, I posted this:
So with @i_nich‘s 2nd birthday coming up, wonder if we could get @predpapaul to record a game-style announcement for our own little #9 :-)
03/03/11
And Paul quickly replied:
@pwnicholson I’d be happy to… send me the details and I’ll send it back in email… OK?
03/04/11
So I did.
And this was the result!
AWESOME!!!
I keep telling Paul that they really need to sell these. Offer them to Preds Kid’s Club members for at least $5-$10. Shouldn’t take much time if they knock them all out monthly in sessions and re-use the real players. I know we’d have bought one for double that price.
Thanks again, Paul!!
