Over-used "Cool" Words

Not a word, but...

"The pass was too tall for the receiver..."

Oh fucking really?

And I swear if somebody tells me they "shot themselves in the foot" in a press conference again I'm really going to do it. And the incessant need to place the name of the sport being played into the analysis also gets my goat. "They're a really good football team... the measure of this basketball team will be... you just have to protect the football...." Filler for actually analysis, I says.

Anything with the words "motor," "moxie" or "trey" involved also get the boot.

 

Bringing the "A game"

Witnessed this one many years back and re-told it a few weeks ago.
Co-worker interviewing coaches for a football preview.
Coach X says something along the lines of needing to give "100 percent on each play." Reporter quickly said, "That probably won't do it, coach, because I just got off the phone with Coach Y and he said his team was going to give 110 percent."
Coach X then said, "We're not worried. Our 100 percent is better than their 110 percent any day."

 

I wrote a column at a football game involving two bad teams, and I wrote that one seemed to be running the run-and-shoot yourself in the foot offense.

 

And why does every football coach in creation seem to have to explain that he's talking about football.
Our football team expects to play a good football game. That's a good football team over there, a very well-coached football team, but we have a good football team too.

 

Nice. Wish I thought of that one.

 

Sirs, Madames,

On page 2 and no mention of "jacked," up or not.

YHS, etc

 

'Virtually'

 

Good start.

Add:
It's all good.

Basically.


I'm sure I'll come up with more as I encounter them.

 

"Window of opprotunity." I must have heard this 20+ times in the last few weeks. The other one I hate, that it seems to me nearly every prep coach says after a victory nowadays. "We were focused on winning." Hate it, hate it, hate it. Sick of hearing it.

 

Forgot one:

Arguably.

 

That's one of the funniest things I've ever read

 

But there's an i in win.

Base knock and red zone are among my personal (least) favorites.