The announcer for our high school has said the same exact thing for each type of play for the past 5 years. So, to answer the question, basically everything. Seriously, can't you get some new phrases?
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Overused & trite sports phrases
- Thread starter mrpackerguy
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pretty much everything they spew at an interviewer.....one game at a time,110%,....blah.....
The guys who thank God/Jesus/Lord/etc for winning. As if God/Jesus/Lord/etc gives a crap who wins the game.
-Mike
-Mike
+1
Also, apparently it is necessary to append "in this football game" to every other sentence, in case the viewer doesn't know what subject is being discussed. "There's three minutes left in this football game." Thank you! If you had just said, "There's three minutes left", I might have thought you were microwaving a frozen dinner.
I also like referring to past greats in plural: Your Joe Montanas, your Troy Aikens, your John Elways.
Lately, I am getting irked by the use of the word vanilla.....as in:
"They're playing a really vanilla offense today"
Also I am totally getting sick of sports talk radio in general. The Packers play one game a week and people can somehow spend the rest of the week talking about a single game. Don't get me wrong I like the NFL, but some people are way too into it... and yes it's a free country, do as you wish.
"They're playing a really vanilla offense today"
Also I am totally getting sick of sports talk radio in general. The Packers play one game a week and people can somehow spend the rest of the week talking about a single game. Don't get me wrong I like the NFL, but some people are way too into it... and yes it's a free country, do as you wish.
IIRC, it was Phil Simms that started this ****, and it spread like cancer. I think most sports media outlets have a manual urging commentators to put "football" in front of every noun related to the sport.
EDIT: I have sports radio on now previewing today's games. Quote:
"The Jets are a good football team. They run the football well and protect the football well. Their roster is filled with solid football players".
Baseball:
"Walk-off" is played-out. I've even heard "walk-off" referenced to defensive plays.[/QUOTE]
this is the one that gets me
"Walk-off" is played-out. I've even heard "walk-off" referenced to defensive plays.[/QUOTE]
this is the one that gets me
" it's do or die time " i remember a few years back hearing an interview with robert smith, the all star running back for the minnesota vikings, about why he retired. he said as part of the minnesota viking public relations package, they had this program called public day ( or something similar ) where they would visit schools, hospitals, make public appearances - in general make themselves available to fans. he said he had a hard time dealing with visiting a pediatric oncology ward where kids were battling cancer for their lives and going to practice the next day and hear that " it's do or die time "
"It was odd sometimes for me to be at the hospital on a Tuesday, doing community work, and to have people come up to me and say, 'This is really fantastic,' '' Smith said. "I haven't seen my son smile like this in a long time. Thank you.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smith_(American_football)
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"It was odd sometimes for me to be at the hospital on a Tuesday, doing community work, and to have people come up to me and say, 'This is really fantastic,' '' Smith said. "I haven't seen my son smile like this in a long time. Thank you.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smith_(American_football)
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I'd like to say just one or two phrases that get me, but it's whole interviews that seem pretty used up. This is universal in sports, and goes from youth level to the pros. It's the player interviews. They always ask the player that has taken 100 too many hits on the head what strategies they'll employ against a team (or which they've just used), and the answer is always the same.
"We played hard, and we played to win. We had good defense, but they were a tough team. Everyone gave 110%."
Ugh. Quit asking them questions. Of course you played to win, dolt! Really, sports radio and all the pre-game and post-game shows are snore fests to me.
I'd rather watch a weekly in-depth critique and highlight show about a Metallica concert.
Terry Bradshaw- "Did you see the way Kirk dropped the solo on Sanitarium?"
Jimmy Johnson- "Yep. But, he made a quick recovery, and then took us all the way home."
Guest commentator, Mike Tyson- "He Thshould've twied jutht a bit harder on the thlow pawt. Dat'th da tear jerker moment fuh me."
"We played hard, and we played to win. We had good defense, but they were a tough team. Everyone gave 110%."
Ugh. Quit asking them questions. Of course you played to win, dolt! Really, sports radio and all the pre-game and post-game shows are snore fests to me.
I'd rather watch a weekly in-depth critique and highlight show about a Metallica concert.
Terry Bradshaw- "Did you see the way Kirk dropped the solo on Sanitarium?"
Jimmy Johnson- "Yep. But, he made a quick recovery, and then took us all the way home."
Guest commentator, Mike Tyson- "He Thshould've twied jutht a bit harder on the thlow pawt. Dat'th da tear jerker moment fuh me."
Football commentator: "He's limping noticeably." If you don't notice it, he ain't limping!
Basketball commentator: "They need to find ways to score the ball." No kidding. Also, can't you just say "score"?
Basketball commentator: "And he hits the three from outside." Aren't ALL three-point shots from "outside"!
Basketball commentator: "They need to find ways to score the ball." No kidding. Also, can't you just say "score"?
Basketball commentator: "And he hits the three from outside." Aren't ALL three-point shots from "outside"!
As I sit here watching football, I'm reminded how annoying it is that players are always referred to by their college, no matter how long they've been pro. "great play by the seventh year pro out of East Western Tennessee Tech!"
At the risk of incurring a TB infraction, I must +1 this sentiment. Please people...your god may love you and you may feel that whatever athelticism & skills you possess are entirely a gift from your god, but there's no way in hell (or heaven) that your god smiled on your team at the expense of your opponent's. None whatsoever. Zero.
Unless your god is a vain, malicious, selfish god...is that what they're saying?
This one is really buggin me lately....using the first initial and 3-4 letters of last name to "rename" a player. Examples:
Aaron Rodgers: "A-Rod"
Travarius Jackson "T-Jack"
I hear a ridiculous one yesterday, but can't remember it.
Aaron Rodgers: "A-Rod"
Travarius Jackson "T-Jack"
I hear a ridiculous one yesterday, but can't remember it.
