Nebraska fans are the WORST at this!!!!
"We won the National Championship 3 out of the last 4 years . . . " (I heard a lot back in the late 90's).
Oh really? We? Remind me when you even attended Nebraska, let alone played for them????
What common football idiom makes you cringe when you hear it?
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Nebraska fans are the WORST at this!!!!
"We won the National Championship 3 out of the last 4 years . . . " (I heard a lot back in the late 90's).
Oh really? We? Remind me when you even attended Nebraska, let alone played for them????
For sure, and it’s extremely annoying. I think a lot of white hats either conciously or subconsciously like being in the spotlight and milk it for all its worth. I wish I could remember which NFL game it was a few weeks ago but the ref was describing a call in way too much detail. Even started a sentence with “you see,” I was laughing so hard
When I was a youth, I thought for many years, well past when I should have known better, that it was "out of bounce" instead of "out of bounds". But I'm also an idiot.
I used to have a hard line stance on this, but have lightened on it recently. I can at least see why you could do it with a college team. I went to ISU. Spent a ton of money to go there. Have a degree from there. I can at least make a weak case that I can say we referring to Iowa State (even though technically it’s not the Iowa State Cyclones, it’s the Iowa State Cyclones football team.)
I absolutely can’t make that same argument when it comes to professional sports or teams of a school you didn’t attend.
The absolute worst is every answer to ANY question on a broadcast is responded with "no question, he is "...." , without question, he ".......". It's the new ummmm, or errrr. They all say "no question" while they think about how they're going to answer. And everything they say has definite question to it.
I was listening to an interview after an ISU game and the player kept saying,"you know". That drives me nuts. If we all knew, why did Walters ask and why you mentioning that.
If you're going to say a team hasn't done X since Y, make sure it's a meaningful span of time. I hate it when a broadcaster says, or journalist writes, "It is (TEAM NAME)'s first win here since 2015." Three years? Ooooh, wow! Did TVs even exist back then?
I hate when they call them southmores instead of soph. Not sure where that term came from. Frosh instead of calling them freshman.
I get so tired of hearing commentators say a player is "One of the best in all of college football." They say it so often it's meaningless. I mean, they apply this phrase to damn near every player they talk about anymore.
Applies to basketball as well, and is just as annoying, if not more so. I'm looking at you, Seth Greenberg.
Applies to basketball as well, and is just as annoying, if not more so. I'm looking at you, Seth Greenberg.
I hate the mandatory coach interview going into halftime and then the opposing coach coming out of halftime. CMC this year coming out of halftime: "Well, we just have to keep playing." CPR a few years back, and my wife and I still quote this all the time with a chuckle: "Well, we need to make fewer mistakes and score more points."
I mean, these interviews are pointless. What can a coach possibly say that will have any meaningful interest to the viewers? He's not going to reveal any actual planned changes. "Well, Cindy Lou, we plan to blitz heavily on first downs this half cuz we think we can catch them off guard!" No, you'll never hear that. There is nothing a coach can say but we want to play better, we want to limit the other team, we want to reduce our penalties, blah, blah, blah...., all meaningless and a waste of time!
I mean, these interviews are pointless. What can a coach possibly say that will have any meaningful interest to the viewers? He's not going to reveal any actual planned changes. "Well, Cindy Lou, we plan to blitz heavily on first downs this half cuz we think we can catch them off guard!" No, you'll never hear that. There is nothing a coach can say but we want to play better, we want to limit the other team, we want to reduce our penalties, blah, blah, blah...., all meaningless and a waste of time!
Frankly I would rather a referee over explain a bit than under explain. So many times the fans in the stands, those watching at home and even the commentators don't understand the rules or don't see everything that the officials saw so a little explanation can be helpful. I am often having to explain rules to fans around me at games because they think ISU is getting screwed when it is actually just the rules of the game.
