Friday, Nov. 16, 2018
Alexis Torres, alexis10776@gmail.com
As His Worst Critic, Veteran Play-by-Play Announcer Thulin Continues to Strike for Greatness
(Dallas, Texas) – His passion to be a play-by-play sports announcer as a kid, propelled Ron Thulin to a career any sports fan could dream of.
With 44 years of experience, Thulin has covered all sorts of sports such as basketball, football and multiple Olympics. Currently, he is broadcasting games for Fox Sports and the University of Texas at Arlington.
Having the ability to sit right outside the field or court, Thulin has met with some of the most famous professional athletes. In one occasion, he receive two autographs from the distinguished Michael Jordan and he took a picture of his daughters with Shaquille O’Neal on his prime days.
Luckily, for a Sports & Entertainment Class at UNT Dallas, Thulin stop by to share some of his ups and downs in his career as an announcer. He cover it all in his speech, here are some of the things he said:
What does it take to be on Television?
Thulin – “If you want to be on TV and you do not have thick skin get out, do not even try it, if you want to get on TV to get rich do not do it, stay out of it and find something else because you need to have a passion.”
Do you had a purpose on why you want it to be a play-by-play announcer?
Thulin – “My purpose in life was to serve others, that was the way I was brought up and I knew that by doing what I do on the air as an announcer I will be able to serve other people by doing this.”
How do you prepare for unknown sports?
Thulin – “I call all the people I knew that had done swimming and just tell them to tell me about this event, and you just start calling people because there was not internet back then, but now you can just search up something a get everything you want.”
Did you ever had second thought on becoming an announcer?
“You will go through those times were you tell yourself what am I doing? There has to be a better way, but I had people that supported me to be an announcer.
How do you adjust yourself through out the years?
Thulin – “Always being your worst critic, I’m my worst critic; I am tell you nobody takes it worse than me when I make a mistake it keep me up at night and hate when my wife says nobody notice, but I did I notice. I’m a professional I should not be making that mistake.”
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