How do quarterbacks avoid stripping their throats?

[milestogo]

You can hear them calling plays over the television, and they are doing it for hours. If I yelled like that a few times I would be completely hoarse. But I've never heard a hoarse QB in the post-game interview.

[empedocles]

1. Or coaches/ They yell all the time in practice - and at their many assistant coaches,

around 15 of them, preparation of practices, etc.?

[Ocelot II]

2. Opera singers can sing loudly for hours at a time. They are like trained, fit athletes.

You have learn to use your voice in a way that won't wear it out; I assume anybody who has to shout a lot for their job has learned to do that, either by training or practice.

[MuseRider]

3. What Ocelot said

and youth, at least for most of them? I hate football but I love watching Pat Mahommes (I think I spelled that right). His grace makes me look at him like I am watching a ballet. If it were not for that voice I would miss him. When I hear it I watch, otherwise I just do whatever. I have often wondered the same.

[underpants]

4. Side note - the offensive line is calling their blocking too.

QB calls out the Mike (middle linebacker) which sets blocking for the play around that player. The O line is talking to each other about changes tinkering. Usually it’s the center who calls line blocking but sometimes it’s a guard. Side side note - Dwight Stephenson was the first black center in the NFL since good records were kept - about WWII. Miami Dolphins in the 70’s. The next was a guy in Pittsburgh in the 90’s (forgot his name). There might be some now but it’s still a thing in the NFL - they don’t trust black people to be center like they used to not trust black QBs.

[Best_man23]

7. You're thinking Dermontti Dawson

As for Dwight Stephenson, he played for Miami in the 1980s, following in the footsteps of another HOF center Jim Langer who along with Larry Little anchored the Dolphins lines in the 1970s. Stephenson's HOF career was cut short in 1987 by a cheap shot that destroyed one of his knees.

[underpants]

8. Yep that's him. Thanks.

[Shermann]

5. It isn't constant

They bark a play, then it's vocal rest for a minute or two.

[milestogo]

6. Yeah, but there's so much stadium noise.

Loud barking necessary.

[LiberalFighter]

9. If it was constant it would be more of a deal.