John Rooke, Patriots Stadium Announcer for more than 30 years

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“Everytime he [Tom Brady] would do that [to me], I’d look around to see if anybody could see.”
- John Rooke
This week Untold Patriots Stories welcomes the multifaceted John Rooke. If you are watching the Patriots at the stadium, you are listening to John. And you’ve been doing so for half of the team’s existence. Hear JR explain how he became the Stadium Announcer and what the job entails. How is Gillette different from Foxboro Stadium? What else is John involved with? What exclusive did he tell us? What are some of the most memorable games he’s called. How did he navigate the Fog Bowl? What historic game did he miss? What does he expect from this year’s squad? Does he think Drake Maye should be playing? What topic got him animated? What does he believe was one of Coach Belichick’s biggest fallacies? And, of course, we hear his signature “First Down” call.
All this and more are answered this week on the podcast!