Steve - I hope FIRST adopts this practice across the board. This instant feedback was great - teams (and perhaps more importantly, the audience) knew exactly what was called and why, and they didn't have to go bother a ref to receive any explanation of their infractions. This kind of communication is essential to avoid confusion and misplaced anger. As an extreme example, the bottle throwing incident at the Cleveland/Jacksonville NFL game in 2001 was instigated primarily by a ref who failed to explain one bit of what was going on down on the field near the end of the game. So I guess the moral of the story is, if you're an announcer and don't want to risk having balls of zip ties and duct tape chucked at you from the stands, you better start descriptively announcing those penalties!
