College football clichés that drive you nuts!
- Thread starter MasterShake
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I throw up a little in my mouth every time I hear Jessie Palmer say a coach "dialed up" a blitz, or a flag route, or a draw, or anything else coaches can call during a football game.
This one drives me crazy...me and one of my best friends try to put it in as many sentences as we can whenever we get to see each other...
"Maturation Process"
Example, "This young quarterback has really developed over the season, he will continue to go through the maturation process and we should see a finished product by season's end"
ERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
"Maturation Process"
Example, "This young quarterback has really developed over the season, he will continue to go through the maturation process and we should see a finished product by season's end"
ERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
I feel a little queezy about this thread.
It opens up a can of worms. Get it?
How about this cliche? "That says more about you than it does about him."
I'm reading down through these posts, and I can't find a whole lot that I agree with.
The one I do agree with is "Anything that Brent Musburger says." In my opinion, his whole "act" is a stereotypical, cliche-ridden effort to "ape" what Keith Jackson did.
It is a fact that in the ministerial world, there will be a few great preachers, and virtually every other preacher will try to copy what the great ones do. A perfect example is the way Billy Graham used to say the word "dwell." His pronunciation was "du-way-el." It was a challenge one Sunday morning to listen to a pastor say "du-way-el" throughout his sermon.
It seems to me that what is considered "cliche" may be due to the fact that the person feeling this way cannot identify with the phrase, or cannot connect the phrase with the action on the field.
Perfect example: I have used the term "speedster" on here. I played the game long before the prolifereation of speedsters as they are today came onto the scene. When we did play a team with a "speedster," I knew that as a defensive back I was the last person on the field to try to keep him from scoring.
Another example: I know exactly what a "downhill runner" is. If you ever got in the way of one of them, you would understand that term too. There is a certain 'thud' that happens when you hit one of those guys that is unlike other experience on the football field.
One thing I have noticed over the years, sure enough, is that as the years, and then the generations, go by, what meant something to a previous generation can mean something entirely different to a succeeding generation.
The prime example of this is the "cliche" spoken today as "pin their ears back."
This saying, when I was a kid in the fifties was instead "lay their ears back."
How and why did "lay their ears back" become "pin their ears back"?
It is a fact that as kids in our society have gone more and more away from outside games to inside games, the old agrarian, "in-the-woods" experience of our forefathers has given way to this DSL, computer-games scene that we see today.
Kids who once grew up in the countryside and small towns knew full well what was meant when an animal "laid his ears back." He knew that just as surely as an African lioness lays her ears back, or even a housecat lays its ears back, an attack on an unfortunate creature is about to take place.
Somewhere in the midst of the years, in football parlance, "laid his ears back" has become "pinned his ears back."
That is amazing, since years ago to "pin one's ears back" meant to completely subdue him in a fight.
So, the person who used to be the one being subdued by getting his ears pinned back is now the one doing the subduing.
I know -- it's confusing.
It opens up a can of worms. Get it?
How about this cliche? "That says more about you than it does about him."
I'm reading down through these posts, and I can't find a whole lot that I agree with.
The one I do agree with is "Anything that Brent Musburger says." In my opinion, his whole "act" is a stereotypical, cliche-ridden effort to "ape" what Keith Jackson did.
It is a fact that in the ministerial world, there will be a few great preachers, and virtually every other preacher will try to copy what the great ones do. A perfect example is the way Billy Graham used to say the word "dwell." His pronunciation was "du-way-el." It was a challenge one Sunday morning to listen to a pastor say "du-way-el" throughout his sermon.
It seems to me that what is considered "cliche" may be due to the fact that the person feeling this way cannot identify with the phrase, or cannot connect the phrase with the action on the field.
Perfect example: I have used the term "speedster" on here. I played the game long before the prolifereation of speedsters as they are today came onto the scene. When we did play a team with a "speedster," I knew that as a defensive back I was the last person on the field to try to keep him from scoring.
Another example: I know exactly what a "downhill runner" is. If you ever got in the way of one of them, you would understand that term too. There is a certain 'thud' that happens when you hit one of those guys that is unlike other experience on the football field.
One thing I have noticed over the years, sure enough, is that as the years, and then the generations, go by, what meant something to a previous generation can mean something entirely different to a succeeding generation.
The prime example of this is the "cliche" spoken today as "pin their ears back."
This saying, when I was a kid in the fifties was instead "lay their ears back."
How and why did "lay their ears back" become "pin their ears back"?
It is a fact that as kids in our society have gone more and more away from outside games to inside games, the old agrarian, "in-the-woods" experience of our forefathers has given way to this DSL, computer-games scene that we see today.
Kids who once grew up in the countryside and small towns knew full well what was meant when an animal "laid his ears back." He knew that just as surely as an African lioness lays her ears back, or even a housecat lays its ears back, an attack on an unfortunate creature is about to take place.
Somewhere in the midst of the years, in football parlance, "laid his ears back" has become "pinned his ears back."
That is amazing, since years ago to "pin one's ears back" meant to completely subdue him in a fight.
So, the person who used to be the one being subdued by getting his ears pinned back is now the one doing the subduing.
I know -- it's confusing.
one that was way over used IMHO everytime a talking head got in front of the camera....."just ask Alabama about Utah in last years Sugar Bowl"
"only 4 things can happen during a pass and 3 of them are bad"
anyone who was born after 1930 and says that is a dummy.
anyone who was born after 1930 and says that is a dummy.
:biggrin2::iagree:
Other ones that really get on my nerves:
"Now he is a football player." No...I thought he was a garbage truck driver.
When a player is out with a "knee" or an "ankle". Every player has a knee and an ankle. It is a sore knee or a sprained ankle. Specify the injury please.
Along the same lines, when a player has to "score the ball." He needs to score a touchdown or maybe points, not a ball. You see that more in basketball than football, but it is still highly annoying.
How about these gems?
"They've got to start getting some touchdowns when they get in the redzone" - thank you captain obvious.
"They will take what the defense gives them" - because when I see a hole in the defense, the first thing that comes to mind is to take a knee.
"The teams record is misleading" - because losing all of your games was an accident?
"They've got to start getting some touchdowns when they get in the redzone" - thank you captain obvious.
"They will take what the defense gives them" - because when I see a hole in the defense, the first thing that comes to mind is to take a knee.
"The teams record is misleading" - because losing all of your games was an accident?
When Dave Rowe used to say "Big man on big man!"
"Its a game of inches!"
"These two teams don't like each other!"
When a player starts taking off running down the field "He can scoot!"
Having said that, my friends and I use them all of the time while watching the games as a joke just to drive each other nuts. :biggrin:
"Its a game of inches!"
"These two teams don't like each other!"
When a player starts taking off running down the field "He can scoot!"
Having said that, my friends and I use them all of the time while watching the games as a joke just to drive each other nuts. :biggrin:
I cannot stand the phrase "Controls their own destiny." Destiny is something pre-ordained and cannot be controlled.
I really don't have a problem with most cliches involving college football.
The only one that does bug me is when a team like USC loses, and the biased announcers say..."USC is a great team but they didn't show up tonight".
One, if they were a great team, they would have shown up. Great teams always show up and give maximum effort.
Two, it discredits the effort of the opponent who DID show up.
sip
The only one that does bug me is when a team like USC loses, and the biased announcers say..."USC is a great team but they didn't show up tonight".
One, if they were a great team, they would have shown up. Great teams always show up and give maximum effort.
Two, it discredits the effort of the opponent who DID show up.
sip
When he a player has an ankle injury - "he's got a bad wheel" or "he tweaked a knee"
A third year junior and he calls him a "young QB"
Kirt H. likes... "the game is moving too fast". he said that about 20 times about the Texas freshman QB
A third year junior and he calls him a "young QB"
Kirt H. likes... "the game is moving too fast". he said that about 20 times about the Texas freshman QB
Any receiver who catches a pass is proclaimed by TV announcers as being "wide open"!! Defender may be only a step away... but the receiver is always wide open.
That reminds me...whenever they refer to a player's hands as "paws."
And you can "throw out the record book" when two arch-rivals play.
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