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Attention Racers competing on Nov. 9th & 10th @ Cowtown Spdwy

All Modifieds, Sims Limited Modifieds, Mini Sprints and Sprint race teams that will be racing on November 9th & 10th at Cowtown Speedway presented by Commercial Music are asked to complete a driver profile that is found at the following web site......

www.track-announcer.com

Simply click on "PROFILE" and complete the form and then click on send. This profile will be sent to the track announcers that will be announcing the event. This is a great way to let the fans know a little more about you and even some free advertising possibilities for your ever so important sponsors. If you have already completed a driver profile earlier this year through the COWTOWN RACEWAY WEB SITE OR ANY OTHER PROFILE COLLECTION SOURCE ( Other than the track-announcer.com site ), you THEN NEED TO DO THIS AGAIN. Please go to www.track-announcer.com and complete the profile form if you have not already.

Chris Wright will be your announcer on Saturday night. I ( Douglas Rollo ) will be announcing on Friday night in substitution for your announcer Chris. ( He has prior commitments. ) I look forward to announcing to all the fans at this great raceway and and for the great fans in attendence.

Thank you drivers for completing a profile form and we will see everyone this weekend.

Douglas Rollo

Track Announcer for Texas Motor Speedway and special events.
All American Motorsports
Track-announcer.com

Doug Rollo

I just wonder if "YANKEE BOY" will be in attendance to help ol Dougie out , keep him from spewin a bunch of misinformation like he has done before when the ASCS shows were at Cowtown. Good deal he is only announcing Friday night.

That was some posting. Lol! Not sure if YOU know what you was even talking about. I am the Yankee AND my name is Douglas. Re-read your post and try again. The last event I did was not the ASCS show. I did the Cowtown Speedway Topless 100 show. You must have your info mixed up.

I announce for Texas Motor Speedway's Dirt Track and another track in the DFW area on a full time bases.

All my information comes directly from the racers themselves. But I am inviting you to come up in the booth and fill all the fans and myself in on the correct info that is other than the usual driver name and car number.

Doug Rollo

OK Rollo, Let's go back to July ASCS show at Cowtown, not the Topless 100 or any other event your referring to , your on the mic and telling everyone that the top 4 go to the A out of the Heat and me and YANKEE BOY as you refer to him (which YANKEE BOY has announced more ASCS shows than you ever have), was sitting there and talking and realizing you are stating the WRONG info to the crowd, Well YANKEE BOY thinks he is going to help YOU out and letting you know it is NOT the top 4 but the top 16 in points that go to the ASCS A main out of the heats and the rest to the B and the top 3 or 4 come out of that to the A, Well he runs up to your booth to let you know the info and you come back over the mic and proceed to say and quote "not sure how you do it up there YANKEE BOY but down here we take the top 4 out of the heat to the A and Rollo that IS NOT RIGHT.

Do YOUR HOMEWORK and yey you should of let YANKEE BOY come up to the booth that night and let him announce and GET IT RIGHT because he does his homework ,which obviously you DID not do that night or you would have known the simplest fact of how the ASCS show operates and how they do their format for A main qualifying.

Rollo, All that announcing you do in the metroplex area is very impressive TMS , KMS ,and so on but that does not mean squat when ya cannot get the facts right to be able to tell the fans how the show works , DO YOUR HOMEWORK.

That's ALL I am saying and when someone that does the same thing in this industry that you do , comes up to help you out to get IT RIGHT , DON'T come back over the mic and make and assanine statement like you did in July, surely you can accept help when needed because that night you needed it to get the facts right.

jdsprint71,

My goodness you are straight forward in your posting I see. I hate to say so but you are still mistaken as to who I am. I have not done a ASCS show all year at any track. In fact. My last ASCS show I did was at Devils Bowl Speedway quite some time ago ( 1999 ). Tim Looney use to announce at Cowtown Speedway. He was dismissed of his duties last fall. Randy Miller accepted the job and made it about half way through the 2007 season. Chris Wright took over and finnished out the year at Cowtown Speedway. Bo Rawdon has pursued me to be his announcer for a very long time. I respect my fellow announcers jobs and never try to take there jobs from them. I remember you and a few other posters on the Cowtown Speedway web site throwing alot of veggies and fruits at the announcers regarding their work at the ASCS event at Cowtown. You was pretty brutal to those announcers.

I have announced many regular and special event shows at small local raceways and huge events that seat up to 160,000 people. I have done it for radio, tv, web broad casting and just for the crowd in the grandstands. No matter were I go. The racing formats can and often do change. The word to the wise announcer is to never say what has yet to be verified. As far as transfers go. This information is difficult to obtain from race scorer's because a window is seperating the scorers from the announcers. Scorer's seldom include transfer information to announcers. The old fashion scoring systems used at 95% of local raceways is hand written scoring. No computerized scoring systems are used. This system often lacks vital info for announcers to pass along. Announcers must always be careful not to interfear with scorer's that are scoring the event. They need heavy concentration to score sprint cars, especially on a track shorter than a 1/2 mile like Cowtown that features high banking for added speed. So asking for info is even hard for announcers. If it is not on paper, it is likely not going to be reported unless the announcer guesses. That is when he get's into trouble.

Will this weekends event be a ASCS sanctioned point scoring event or will it be a event that uses the Cowtown Speedway rules used for it's sprint cars? The flier say's nothing to inform you of this. I have not yet checked the web site.

Am I defending the announcers that worked that ASCS event that you are talking about? Yes I am. It is a difficult job. Announcers have to be worried about timing points, juggling ticket drawing give-aways, making special announcements and advertising statements and talk racing with the fans and so much more. A visiting announcer that has parked himself in the bleachers and plays critic with me is invited to step up to the mic with me at anytime. So I will hope to see him knocking on my door and identifying himself and informing me that he would like to co-announce with me. I have and always will have a open mic for a visiting announcer.

In closing. I never claim to be the best. I claim to be me and what you hear is what you get. I do my research and spend countless time and money to obtain information on racers and the sport. It is a pretty tough job when you announce for not just one track, but for tracks all over Texas. Not to mention the raceways I have announced for in Oklahoma, Louisiana, and other states. I have profile books on racer's from divisions ranking from Cruiser's to Late Models and Sprints. That is alot of drivers dude. Throw in the various series and sanctions and you will then see that it is much more work than just following ONE series or maybe another. I welcome you to Cowtown Speedway this weekend. Sit back and relax. Enjoy the show and don't be so critical. If you find that you are un happy. Come on up and show me your info you have collected and we can let you have your shot at announcing. Afer all, there are alot of tracks looking for announcers. You may be the man they are looking for.

Doug Rollo

Rollo , so your saying you were not announcing at the ASCS show on July 7 ,2007 , put down the Crack Pipe and stop smokin it for a while , I got 2 other witnesses that were with me and YANKEE BOY as you call him, YOU DID ANNOUNCE along with Big Chris and the skinny guy, it was share the mic night I guess , Hell I heard all about Looney and what happend, Tim did a good job and you bet was I hard on the Chris guy last year , did not drive 3 hrs. down to Cowtown and pay $15 bucks to listen to ELVIS IMPERSANTIONS all night, was there to see ASCS Sprint Car races and as well the locals run and did not get a DAM thing out of the Elvis impersantions, wanted info on who was fast in the local classses and who won last year championship and who is the points leader and so on, got NONE of that , paid my $15 bucks and wanted some info about the show on hand and got a bunch of ELVIS IMPERSANATIONS ALL NIGHT , bunch of BS, Cmon Rollo, Yankee Boy knows ya and went up and seen ya in the press box with mic in hand that night July 7,2007 and TRIED TO HELP ya out with the proper facts for qualifying for th e A main for the ASCS show that night but you resorted to name calling , real professional there Rollo, Cmon,Rollo you were not there,now that is good stuff your smokin , guess me and the other witnesses from Okla. and South Texas that were sitting there all night must just have it all wrong , LOL, Ya crack me up .

Hell I am not even talking about this weekends show , IT IS NOT ASCS SANCTIONED , so I am sure Bo Rawdon will have his own rules for it. Will see if we get any info about how they qualify for the A , We can only hope.

Rollo , I plan on coming down to Cowtown this weekend and maybe YANKEE BOY and the regular witnesses from July 07 in the witness program will show up to and we plan to have a hell of a time, watch some sprint car racing along with the other classes and hopefully the announcer will be on his game to give us all the CORRECT INFO for the evening.

Rollo , That's some hellacious accomplishments announcing in front of 160,000 people and all those tracks you say you have announced at and man all those driver profiles you have , the web s site very impressive , Tough to compete against but ya know I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

I want to say something to about 15 things here - but I'm not quite sure when I'll stop laughing.........

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wouldchuck could chuck would

holy crap!!!! you okc boys don't jack around. tell us how you really feel. lmao

jdsprint71,

Sorry JD, but I was not the track announcer that night. Chris and Randy was there from what I know. Was it by chance some other announcer? I have visited Cowtown Speedway a few times this year. Each time I visited that track. I may have been interviewed or even handed the mic to announce maybe one race. But I never announced a full show as a hired announcer. I was hired to announce the Topless 100 event and that is all for the 2007 season. In most every visit. I may have hung out in the booth with the announcers, but never took full control with a mic in my hand. Your ranting and bashing of those announcers on the event you question was uncalled for. And in those ugly postings you made. You never mentioned me. Why? Because I did NOT announce that event. For 80% of this season I was all over Texas and a few neighboring states attending and/or working at events as a announcer. And I must say that I did not and do not do toke a pipe while doing so...lol!

I am compelled to ask you this. Why did you folks not visit with the announcers and discuss this issue? Why did you not be tactful in your comments and offer suggestions, advice or provide your comments? I know these two guys and they are nice people. They will nite bite you or fight with you. Those two men did not deserve what you folks did to them. Like em or hate em. They did NOT deserve what you did to them. It was rude, un justified and out of line to handle it the way you did. Show some class and handle yourselve's a little more respectfully next time with them, me or anyone else that happeneds to not meet your expectations. I am sure you have it in you to be this way.

I look forward to meeting you and your friends. I sincerly hope you all have a good time. You will have to put up with me on Friday night. Then Big Chris will be your announcer on Saturday night. I welcome you to contact me and I will provide you with my phone number so we can talk. I am VERY interested in meeting you all. I hope you take me up on this. I am like Big Chris and Randy. I don't bite and I won't hurt you.

Doug Rollo

WOW, I think Mr. Rollo has a case of amnesia or maybe he was abducted by aliens and he really wasn't announcing that night?

UNFREAKINBELIEVEABLE, I want to come live in your fantasy world, guess the others that were there with me that night as well as a couple of thousand Texans just plain missed out on it, I can see this thread is getting nowhere.

First you say in a post above that you were NOT Announcing that night and in the post directly above you say you might have been in the booth , Now what is it, seem to be WAFFLEING on your story here Rollo, C'mon you were there announcing how the top 4 out of each heat went to the A main, me and Yankee Boy know it and you know it , did'nt your momma tell you not to be a Fibber.

As for the bashing of the Announcers at this event WRONG AGAIN, Rollo I bashed Big Chris from a show in 06 for not paying attention to the show at hand , WHAT WE PAID $15 TO SEE, Not Elvis Impersanations like he did the WHOLE night, You say it was ugly ,YOUR OPINION , just call it a little constructive criticism , Seemed to have helped Chris as he learned from it and cut out all the BS the last several times we have been there, stuck to the show and let most of the other stuff for down time,Not right before or during the races , Never said a bad word or called Chris any names , you might want to go ask Chris and as for the Randy guy , he seem to be the best of you 3 sticking to the show and what is going on about the races as well as being informative about the races ,NEVER one time bashed him for ANYTHING, Rollo you seem to have selective memory syndrome , remember what you want to. Hell your the one calling paying customers names over the mic after they tried to help you with some correct info Remember "YANKEE BOY"?, Now let's talk about Ugly ,HMMMM!

I will be at Cowtown Sat. night pay my $20 and see some of the best flat out sprint car racing at one sweet 1/4 mile , Drink a little ICE TEA (by the way it is very tasty) and like I said before plan on having a heck of a time at the Circle of Dirt on New Hope Rd. in Kennedale,Tx., Me and the people in the Witness Program will be coming along as hopefully will be ol YANKEE BOY too, As for me worried about you or anyone hurting me , trust me that is the LEAST of my worries, come seek us out and you can tell us about that SMS you have and how you were not announcing on July 7 and maybe be able to tell YANKEE BOY that he did not see you in the booth or try to help you out by giving you CORRECT info on qualifying for the ASCS A Main. Look foward to it.

Like I said before UNFREAKINBELIEVEABLE!

I said it before and I said it again. I have been hired to announce at Cowtown only once this season. This weekend is my second time. Bo has pursued me as a announcer for his track for quite some time. I have respected my fellow announcers positions and never wanted to take there jobs from them. That is how I roll. And I will say again, I may have visited Cowtown on a few occassions. I never was the track announcer during those visits. I may have been interviewed or even announced a race. But I was on the mic for very short periods. While I was at that track or any track I visit. I NEVER treat a visitor of the speedway in a bad way, NEVER. The same goes for drivers and my fellow announcers. You are no exception as well.

For your happiness, I will allow you to give me fault for what ever dislikes you had in your visit at Cowtown. I will take the blaim for it all. I am man enough to accept this and shoulder that responsability. Now you take responsability for the VERY rude actions you had done for the badgering and the lack of tact you used with those two fellow announcers of mine. One piece of warning. Your last tirade you folks had made Bo Rawdon pretty upset. ( Not to mention those two announcers. ) Your thoughts and your opinions can and will go much farther when you use a much different approach about it..

Look for me to announce the event the best I can Friday night. I am soliciting driver profiles here on this site and others. I will be visiting drivers in the pit area. All in a effort to get the info I need on the race teams. I will collect all info I can get from the race officials BEFORE the event starts. I will have VERY LITTLE chance to get info from them during the event. Everything I collect will be delivered to the race fans. All the while I must meet the needs of advertisings and messages to the fans that the speedway has. Hopefully I will meet your wishes and have made your long trip to Cowtown a enjoyable one.

Once again. I welcome you to Cowtown Speedway this weekend and I WANT TO MEET YOU ALL.

Doug Rollo

Your right there Bobcat , I DID overstep the boundaries there on the Crack Pipe deal and for that I am sorry , guess a bad choice of words and guess me and ol Yankee Boy(Mr.Rollo choice of words) and the others must have been smokin it as you refer to it callin the kettle black while there back in July, We must have all just been in a haze the whole night.

With that statement made I'm Done.

Wow, this post has prompted me to go ahead and register. I have been a long time viewer of this page and always enjoy it - even when things get a little testy. This one though has helped me decided to go ahead and post something, although I have been laughing pretty hard at this whole post.

I don't know Rollo personally, but have heard him announce a few times, thus have seen him before. And I can confirm what sprint71 is saying. Rollo WAS at cowtown on July 7. I went to watch the ASCS race and they had 3 announcers that night, one of which was Rollo. As for sprint71, I do not know him either but have seen his car race a few times at State Fair Speedway and Meeker. I do however want to stick up for him on this one - Okies must stick together.

I must say I was rather confused that night at Cowtown, they WERE announcing that the top 4 advance to the A.(Rollo you were there that night, so you are included). I have been to many ASCS races and don't ever recall them using that format, as they use DRAW and PASSING POINTS. I just ignored what was being announced as I was pretty sure I knew better.

My point of this post is to have Rollo be more careful before attacking back at some-one when it was obvious he WAS at that race. I sure wish he or either of the other two would have listened to the gentleman who apparently tried to give the correct information according to sprint71.

I plan on being at the race on Saturday as the racing is always GREAT at Cowtown. Rollo, you are a good announcer, so keep up the good work, just be careful.

I was foolish and that was the one ascs cowtown race I didn't attend the entire year. But aside from the buds of mine who went down - there were a couple of Texans I talked to at the Bowl's Winter Nationals that mentioned the same exact thing. I think most anyone who's ever been to multiple ascs shows in the past knows who Randy Ward is........hence why quite a few knew of the Yankee comparison. But everyone I talked to thought it was Rollo as well..........

I do, however, wonder what the comment was made in reference to. I suppose if conducting ones self in a highly professional matter 100% of the time means somethin like your a "yankee" - then we need a lot more Yankees. Maybe it was because he wasn't local? There is not a an announcer who knows sprint drivers and sprint car racing better than Mr. Ward. Thats kind of an unfair statement too - he's knowledgeable about all dirt track racing. As now he's covering some SW Texas Dirt track racing on his news in San Angelo. Where ever Ward goes - he'll be a helpful force for the dirt track racin in that area. And thats taking nothin away from Rollo. But however it happened......there were some who thought you insulted Mr. Ward. And whereas I was not there - as well as I know JD (sprint) - he's not much one to make stuff up.........And also - speaking of Yankee's - I believe Don Hubbard was born in the Northeast - and he does great reportings on sprint car racing in this region. On a weird side note - I can't stand the NY Yankees though.........don't know where it fits in with all this - but there it is.lol

Thats my only 2 cents - as the only 2 who need to discuss it any further are Mr. Rollo and Mr. Ward.

How much would could a wouldchuck chuck if a 
wouldchuck could chuck would

I was born in Ashtabula, Ohio in 1965 and moved here in 1969, what does that make me? Oh yeah, that has already been announced - an idiot.

David Smith Jr.
www.oklahomatidbits.com

For goodness sakes, JD and the Track Announcer either need to kiss and make up, or put on the gloves. I think I still have Jack Claxtons phone number. Although he's retired, maybe we could co-hearse him into doing the play by play.

lol.

Ohio? seriously? why the hell would you move here? the sprint and dirt racin up there is "off the hook"

How much would could a wouldchuck chuck if a 
wouldchuck could chuck would

I'm not even gonna touch that one.

thats an UNFREAKINBELIEVABLE idea

lol. makin humor not fun JD.

How much would could a wouldchuck chuck if a 
wouldchuck could chuck would

I too was at the July 7th race at Cowtown Speedway. I also heard the Yankee Boy comment and thought it was way out of line. ASCS always takes the top 16 in passing points to make the A-main not the top 4 in each heat. I also didn't like the Elvis impersonater. When I go to a race track I am there to watch the races. I want to know about the racing that is going on that nite.

David there is nothing wrong about being born in Ohio. I was born in Chillicothe, Ohio (Which has a very nice high banked dirt track) Go Buckeyes

CCC you are right about Randy and JD (sprint). Don Hubbard man I don't know LOL