The Young Professor

The Young Professor Cast Director & Chief Potassium Enthusiast for The Savannah Bananas. Pro live event host (NHL, NASCAR, PPA Tour, and more). Sharp dressed man šŸ¤µ Ladies. Gentlemen.

Boys and Girls... and Live Event Enthusiasts from around the world! The Young Professor Matt Graifer has been an a live event host, announcer, DJ and speaker for over a decade and has performed in front of more than 1,000,000 people in that time! He is best known as the Host/Chief Potassium Enthusiast for The Savannah Bananas, and he has also announced for NASCAR at the 2022 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at

the Daytona International Speedway. He began his sports career as a professional wrestling ring announcer, before adding MMA, boxing, and then team sports event hosting to his repertoire, working for teams and events like the Daytona Tortugas MiLB team, the Jacksonville Sharks arena football team, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Men's/Women's Basketball teams, the NXL Paintball World Cup, and many more. The Young Professor (aka Matt Graifer) was ACTUALLY that: a young professor! At the age of 25, he started as a professor of an exercise science program where he taught 25 separate collegiate level courses over a nearly 8 year span. He then spent several years as a high school social studies teacher. The Daytona Beach News Journal named him Best Live Entertainer in 2018 and in 2022 he was named one of the 40 Under Forty for the same newspaper. The Professor maintains a remarkably busy schedule, but is always interested in new, exciting opportunities. If you or someone you know is in need of a host, DJ, or motivational speaker for your event: you'd be hard pressed to find someone more experienced, better dressed, or more FUN than the one and only Young Professor!

09/17/2025

Hunting for PWI Pro Wrestling Illustrated because thereā€™s an article about all of the Banana Ball cast who were a part of this yearā€™s tour!

Check it out on their website or snag one at Barnes & Noble . Look for the edition with Willow Nightingale on the cover!

Me and 1975 New York Met Joe TorreThatā€™s how I know him and I will not be taking any questions.New York Mets āš¾ļø New York...
09/17/2025

Me and 1975 New York Met Joe Torre

Thatā€™s how I know him and I will not be taking any questions.

New York Mets āš¾ļø
New York Yankees

Getting el campeĆ²n Damian Priest all set for his big The Savannah Bananas debut on Saturday night in Yankee Stadium.šŸ“ø: Y...
09/16/2025

Getting el campeĆ²n Damian Priest all set for his big The Savannah Bananas debut on Saturday night in Yankee Stadium.

šŸ“ø: YES Network

A fan sent me this photo he took while showdowns were occurring at the game, as I stood outside of the New York Yankees ...
09/16/2025

A fan sent me this photo he took while showdowns were occurring at the game, as I stood outside of the New York Yankees dugout right beside Joe Torre and Jesse Cole.

I believe this is a picture worth a thousand words. Past meets future.

09/15/2025

Damian Priest was blindfolded and searching for the first golden banana with the help of the crowd at Saturday nightā€™s The Savannah Bananas game at Yankee Stadium.

Instead of another picture of me with a cool famous guest, here is me dressed as a rat in front of 49,000 people in New ...
09/15/2025

Instead of another picture of me with a cool famous guest, here is me dressed as a rat in front of 49,000 people in New York City to host the TMNT Movie race at Saturdayā€™s The Savannah Bananas game.

Cowabunga! šŸ¢ šŸ¢ šŸ¢ šŸ¢ šŸ€

So what? šŸ©· Itā€™s wild to think we get to perform for megastars like P!nk , but it sure is an honor.
09/15/2025

So what? šŸ©·

Itā€™s wild to think we get to perform for megastars like P!nk , but it sure is an honor.

A Substitute Teacher and a Professor walk into a Banana Ball gameā€¦Shout out to Keegan-Michael Key for being so cool yest...
09/14/2025

A Substitute Teacher and a Professor walk into a Banana Ball gameā€¦

Shout out to Keegan-Michael Key for being so cool yesterday during The Savannah Bananas and The Firefighters game at Yankee Stadium

Yankee Stadiumā€¦. Itā€™s time. Give me your voices.
09/13/2025

Yankee Stadiumā€¦. Itā€™s time. Give me your voices.

šŸ“– STORY TIME: 9/11 Post Part 2Yesterday I reflected on 9/11/2001 and its impact on me as a kid growing up in the shadow...
09/12/2025

šŸ“– STORY TIME: 9/11 Post Part 2

Yesterday I reflected on 9/11/2001 and its impact on me as a kid growing up in the shadow of NYC and how I credit that with my first real move into the direction where my life was eventually going to go. It was a terrible day that inspired me to have many greater ones later by forcing me to think differently about my life.

But thatā€™s not the only 9/11 when something like that happened to me. So letā€™s look back at 9/11/2015

I was a father of 4 kids and a college professor. My program that I taught in had low enrollment, so they had already decided to phase it out. I thought I was going to be able to find another job at the university, maybe on the admin sideā€¦. But on 9/11/2015 I was brought into our acting campus presidentā€™s office and told I was being let go immediately.

It was humbling and humiliating. I never had set out to be a professor, but I liked it well enough and had done it for almost 4 years at that point. My house and my finances werenā€™t exactly stable at the time and our daughter Lili was only a year old, so I was terrified. It was (or so I thought) one of the worst days of my life.

I started a new job a month later for way less money, and knew I needed to do more to provide adequately for my family. That led me to reaching out to Challenge Entertainment , where I was quickly hired to be a new trivia host in the Central Florida market. I didnā€™t know it at the time, but that side hustle for extra money would transform my life in ways I never would have imagined. It opened doors for me to begin DJing, hosting, and announcing at all kinds of events, and now 10 years later I am one of the premiere hosts and announcers in the world.

All of that came out of getting fired on 9/11/2015. What I thought was one of the worst days of my life forced me to make decisions that wound up being the best decisions Iā€™ve ever made.

I share all of this to say this: you never know what the big plan for you is. Sometimes, an event that seems tragic or unfortunate might be just what you need to put you exactly where youā€™re supposed to be, even if it doesnā€™t seem obvious at the time.

Office for the weekend. šŸŽ āš¾ļø
09/12/2025

Office for the weekend. šŸŽ āš¾ļø

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