NCAA tournament phrases that should be banned

The term "student-athlete" only gets by me in copy if it's in a quote or the name of an award.

 

Can we get rid of "One Shining Moment" while we're at it?

 

Fuggemall. Goddamn it.

 

I'd rather have "March Madness" or "Big Dance" or whatever rather than the word "tournament" 71 times in a story.

Maybe that's just me trying not to be boring.

 

I really have no problem with March Madness...it's a copyrighted description of the tournament and all that it encompasses.

I'm with everybody on Cinderella, though.

 

I also don't like references to "the NCAAs", not to be confused with the NITs.

 

If you are writing a story in which the "tournament" (or dance or madness) is referred to 71 times . . . you're too late. It will be boring.

And all the synonyms in the world won't change that.

 

And now the NFL is trying to patent the phrase "The Big Game," so when people talk on the air about the Super Bowl but can't say Super Bowl they will not be able to say "The Big Game" either. What's next? Trying to patent, "This Sunday's Game"

 

They're doing that because across the country, every tom-dick-and-harry party store and appliance store and sports bar, you name it, they want to run some kind of sale, giveaway or promotion centering on The Super Bowl(TM), but they can't say "The Super Bowl(TM)" unless they pay a licensing fee to the NFL, so instead they say for "The Big Game," so now the NFL wants a fee for that too.

 

I second this motion. God damn NCAA.

 

Fuck the NFL. The only thing the NFL has cornered the market on is giving thug criminal players free passes.

As for sports in general, how about we stop rferring to the commentators as "on-air talent," since most of them have none.

 

Bracketologists. Kill that word forever, and salt the soil beneath which it is buried, similar to what was done to Carthage. "Educated guessers with a platform" is the more accurate description.