John Rawlston announces the lineup before the game between Soddy-Daisy and Cleveland Friday at Soddy-Daisy High School.At the conclusion of Soddy-Daisy’s football game tonight against Bradley Central, John Rawlston intends to call it quits.
Well, sort of.
Rawlston, the enthusiastic and home-grown public-address announcer at Soddy-Daisy football games for the past five decades, plans to turn over the microphone to someone else.
“It’s my last football game — unless we get into the playoffs,” he said. “I’m giving it up. Fifty years is about enough. I hate it, but I think I need to turn it over to somebody else.”
He said he’ll still attend football games in the future, and it would only be right.