Longtime Giants radio voice Bob Papa. Credit: New York Giants
Bill Papa remembers how his son "from a very, very young age" would do play-by-play while his mother, Dorothy, cooked meals, using a wooden stick as a microphone.
So he was listening to and describing sports action while his mother worked in the kitchen? Cute. But not exactly.
"No, it was, ‘Mom just put the carrots in the pot!’" Bill said of a typical cooking call.
Such was his son’s dedication to announcing. Eventually, Dorothy fretted it had become an unhealthy obsession and discussed the matter with the pediatrician.