There are certain phrases and terms in sports that I find annoying and over used.
My least favorite:
"Burn his redshirt"
Your nomination??
My least favorite:
"Burn his redshirt"
Your nomination??
OT: Stupid Sports Phrases or Terms
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I like "trickeration." A color commentator on ESPN (a woman, I don't remember her name) used it when Cal was upsetting Michigan State with unconventional plays early in Jeff Tedford's regime when he was making Cal respectable. So fo rme it has "innocence by association," so to speak.
Running downhill. Now it's used in everything...I heard it at a basketball game.
"Athleticism"
I must hear it a dozen times during a game
A dude makes a little bunny hop to catch a football and announcers will gush about the players "athleticism"
There's nothing too basic that announcers cant decribe it as a testament to boss level athleticism
I must hear it a dozen times during a game
A dude makes a little bunny hop to catch a football and announcers will gush about the players "athleticism"
There's nothing too basic that announcers cant decribe it as a testament to boss level athleticism
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It is a stupid made up non-word that makes people who use it sound silly, IMO. Opinions vary
Physicality. The word is misused by announcers.
Troy aikman and others use this phrase “try to come away with points on this drive.”
It drives me crazy. The whole
Point is to come away with points on pretty much every drive.
Or jay Bilas “this guy can really shoot the basketball”. Can we just assume that it’s a basketball game you can just say the guy can shoot . We can see it’s a basketball
I don’t watch much baseball on espn. But all that new terminology like spin rate, exit velocity, launch angle , hit probability Well they can shove it up their A$$
It drives me crazy. The whole
Point is to come away with points on pretty much every drive.
Or jay Bilas “this guy can really shoot the basketball”. Can we just assume that it’s a basketball game you can just say the guy can shoot . We can see it’s a basketball
I don’t watch much baseball on espn. But all that new terminology like spin rate, exit velocity, launch angle , hit probability Well they can shove it up their A$$
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After an interception, a bad pass by a QB or a home run given up by a pitcher..."I think he wants that one back"
A classic: "he's got a bright future ahead of him"
A classic: "he's got a bright future ahead of him"
"Now it comes down to WHO WANTS IT MORE."
It generally comes down to who makes a play, which both teams equally want to do. Or who screws up, which both teams equally do not want to do.
It generally comes down to who makes a play, which both teams equally want to do. Or who screws up, which both teams equally do not want to do.
Sports has its own Phrases/Terms/Language which does its best to explain the phenomenon. Rarely do any terms bother me. "Cinderella story" is a little overused in college basketball, but that is a result of Dicky V. along with some others specific terms/phrases particular to the March Madness craze.
"Hating on..." It's incorrect grammar and sounds awful.
In baseball graphics, when they show a pitcher went 5 and 1/3 innings, but show it as 5.1 innings. It's not a friggin' decimal place, which would mean 5 and 1/10th innings.
In baseball graphics, when they show a pitcher went 5 and 1/3 innings, but show it as 5.1 innings. It's not a friggin' decimal place, which would mean 5 and 1/10th innings.
For some reason, it bugs the hell out of me when people confuse "unanswered" and "consecutive", as in "Rutgers scored 21 unanswered and then Indiana scored".
"Must stay ahead of the sticks"
Was said a lot during the Minnesota game.
Breaking News: They don't like getting into 3rd and long!!
No shit. No team likes getting into 3rd and long (well except maybe the Chiefs - they might be indifferent to down and distance).
Was said a lot during the Minnesota game.
Breaking News: They don't like getting into 3rd and long!!
No shit. No team likes getting into 3rd and long (well except maybe the Chiefs - they might be indifferent to down and distance).
This always confuses me in CFB.
Every team is "young".
Rosters are constantly turning over so every team has a young position or two every year.
For example - we had senior QB and TE this year. But a "young" RB room.
Does that make us young or old on offense?
Plum…we’ve seen firsthand that not every coach does try to ‘come away with points’ on drives.
Now now, everybody employs a linguistic stragery that suits their needs.
A shout out to former RU FB and MBB play by play man Bruce Johnson.
FB: The pass is caught, then dropped. ( wouldn’t that be a fumble?)
MBB: Back in 60 seconds with the unhappy recap. How many times did we hear that?
FB: The pass is caught, then dropped. ( wouldn’t that be a fumble?)
MBB: Back in 60 seconds with the unhappy recap. How many times did we hear that?
I can't stand listening to Aikman and Buck and all that baseball crap makes watching games intolerable.
"Next man up" (and yes I know it's a board favorite when a recruit chooses a different school)
So the team isn't just going to fold up shop and cancel the rest of the season?
You sure the next man in line is going to play?
So the team isn't just going to fold up shop and cancel the rest of the season?
You sure the next man in line is going to play?
There's already a word for it though, it's trickery.
Drives me nuts when announcers make up words or phrases to describe things that we already have words for. First one that comes to mind is instead of saying competitiveness, about 10 years or so ago, they came up with "compete level," and now it's "jam" as in "He plays with a lot of jam."
Not really a word or phrase, but I've never been interested in watching pregame/postgame/halftime/intermission analysis ever since it went from actually talking about the game and being informative to now just a bunch of guys joking around with each other and yucking it up, or talking about who tweeted what, etc. And of course there's always a segment where instead of sitting behind the desk, they're standing in front of a giant TV and one of them is always holding a ball/hockey stick/whatever for no reason. I also don't understand why on all of these shows now, the camera is almost always moving, did every sports network hire the cameraman from Cloverfield?
Izzo commented on that last night before MSU's game. The reporter asked him about two of his players who were out due to injury, and Izzo said (paraphrasing here), "I'm not a fan of the 'next man up' idea--if they were that good they'd be starting." I loved it.
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