User:SHU2008/Paul Roper

Paul Robert Roper (born June 12, 1986 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American sportscaster for WSOU-FM.

Educated at Seton Hall University working with the student radio station, WSOU. He started early after getting rejected from the ESPN reality show Dream Job in the summer of 2004. After quickly moving up the ranks to news and then as a disk jockey, Roper became a sportscaster where he's been ever since. He was Assistant Technical Operations Director from 2005 to 2006 and is now serving as one of the Assistant Sports Directors.

Jersey Pilots
Roper started a new page in his career when he became the play-by-play broadcaster for the Jersey Pilots of the ACBL in the summer of 2006. He was teamed with Rutgers graduate Alan Barr, and despite the Seton Hall-Rutgers rivalry the duo proved to be an entertaining broadcast team. Barr left the organization following the season to become the sports information intern at Florida Atlantic University.

Vermont Mountaineers
Roper was recently hired to the be broadcaster for the collegiate baseball team in Montpelier, Vermont. He's been sub-par at best, but believed to be the best Paul ever to broadcast Mountaineers games.

Style
Roper has a down-home manner of speaking, often addressing his viewers as "folks". However, when the moment arises, Roper will usually sound amazed at an incredible play, no matter what the score. "Wow!", "How about that?" and "Look at this!" are the many exclamations Roper will say during the course of a game.

Calls and utterances
I'm Paul Roper! (His introduction for almost anything on the air, even commercials.)

Thank you, (name). (in homage to Carolina Hurricanes broadcaster Chuck Kaiton thanking the voiceover on segue from the commerical break)

How about that razzle-dazzle! (spoken during an alley-oop or amazing play.)

We all know what Michael Jackson's TV's are tuned into. (His signoff during the Little League World Series)

You're ass is grass! (A threat he made to his arch rival)

She just gave her the "Oh no, you didn't look"! (After Seton Hall guard Shantel Brown was knocked down in front of Roper on the broadcast table.)

Here's the 0-1. Swing and a high fly ball going into the leftfield, going back is Renaud, looking up, and IT'S OUTTA HERE! HOME RUN, CURT SMITH! His first base hit of the night comes at the most important time! Curt Smith has won the game in the bottom of the 11th with a game-winning solo home run! Ballgame over, and the Mountaineers have won it 3-2 in 11 innings! (June 20th, 2007)

The Pirates have numbers going to the other way! Harvey sends it ahead to Gause who drives to the basket, layup is good! AND! THE! FOOOOUL! Paul Gause returns to the court for the first time in three weeks and scores his first points of the night at the most important time! He can put the Pirates up 7 on the three-point play as the Rutgers fans are headed home to the Grease Trucks! (Call of Paul Gause's basket and foul in overtime against Rutgers, 1/30/08)

Trivia

 * Roper's first and last fight was with the Muffin Man who dealt a blow to his legs which is the cause as to why he may run funny


 * Roper once fell into a pile of money but later realized it was green sludge


 * Roper is known to be a great soccer goalkeeper, unfortunately he couldn't walk on as there were superior goalies at Bound Brook High School.


 * Roper was born in Brooklyn, and moved to South Bound Brook, New Jersey in December 2001.


 * Roper was hit by a car when he was five years old, temporarily slowing his growth.


 * Roper's favorite song is Brass Bonanza. Despite this, he is an avid New York Rangers fan.


 * Roper once took a dump in the middle of a party. Literally, in the center of the party. People could not get to the other side.


 * As of February 1st, 2008, Roper has 400 friends on Facebook.


 * Roper showed up to Greensboro, North Carolina in March of 2006. You figure out the rest.


 * He was roommates with John Brickley, who currently lives in Ephrata, Pennsylvania due to a restaining order from Seton Hall. Brickley drives by the few Sonics in the northeast everyday.


 * Roper lost his virginity before his father did.


 * Roper not only believes the moon landing was fake, he also believes the moon is fake.


 * Roper spoke only in the third person from December 2006 to February 2007.


 * Roper knows why people park in a driveway and drive on a parkway, he just won't tell anyone.


 * Roper's AIM password is "Jaboobies"


 * Chuck Norris dressed up as Paul Roper for Halloween.


 * Apple pays Paul Roper 99 cents every time he listens to a song.