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Sports announcers, including Joe Buck and Mike Emrick, are doing play-by-play calls of everyday life

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With sports stopped for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus outbreak, broadcasters have turned to everyday life to continue their life’s work.

Over the weekend, English rugby commentator Nick Heath went viral on Twitter after commentating on two dogs running in a park. The creative play-by-play has inspired a popular hashtag, #LifeCommentary, and other famous broadcasters are following along, including the MLB’s Joe Buck and the NHL’s Mike Emrick.

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“Well, you’re joining me live for what I’m told is the Tooting Dogging Final and these two, vanilla and chocolate, doing really well here,” Heath begins in his most popular video Dogging set in London. “Vanilla just over the hill in the distance. Chocolate in hot pursuit. There’s been some lovely footwork. And THERE it is again from vanilla. The spaniel is back in front and that’s confused the hell out of it. Doesn’t know where it is. Twisting and turning. Vanilla is such a worthy champion scampering away. Are we going to get a second lap? It’s just beginning to build up… no! No! She breaks it up as quickly as she started it.”

Heath has released nearly a dozen other videos which have all been surprisingly captivating and exciting.

Heath recently told the New York Times that the videos are meant to be “some kind of placebo” to help sports fans get by while their favorite sports are cancelled. “It turns out that in these slightly curious times, the world desperately needed some levity.”

He added, “For me, sports is not solely about the action on the field. It’s about the atmosphere, the occasion, the sound of it, the look of it,” he said.

Freelance cricket commentator Mark Church, who as worked for the BBC, started doing #commentaryathome with his 10-year-old daughter Isabelle and his grandmother. They’re being shared by Australia captain Aaron Finch and former England captain Nasser Hussain.

Meanwhile, the trend has hit two of the biggest commentators in the United States. MLB on Fox’s Joe Buck has done commentary of his wife and son having a back and forth at home.

He’s also doing commentary of other people hanging out at home to raise money for COVID-19 charities.

Hockey Hall of Famer Mike Emrick has joined the craze doing play-by-play of a windshield wiper being fixed.

It’s everything I didn’t know I needed.

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