OT: Worst TV Announcer sayings

Submitted by bringthewood on

What Announcer/Commentator saying grate you the most? My current choices are "trickeration" for trick play and "pick 6". What are your's? These can be lame, overused, cliché, your choice.

Wide Open

September 29th, 2009 at 12:51 PM ^

Pretty much any time the ball is in the middle of the field on 4th and short an announcer will say it's "Decision Time" for Coach X.

Isn't it decision time on every down? It's called "calling the plays".

jlcoleman71

September 29th, 2009 at 1:26 PM ^

......I can't listen to him anymore.......

Also, listening to the NFL guys get all giddy like a school girl every time they mention the "wildcat formation"....wildcat.....wildcat........big deal, they hike to a RB or something......high schools and college have been doing variations of this forever.

Donkerm

September 29th, 2009 at 1:32 PM ^

Anything about young qaurterbacks needing to "just manage the game"... so sick of that phrase.

Or Rod Allen saying about a pitcher "he brings his great _____ with him to the mound EVERY FIFTH DAY"

El Jeffe

September 29th, 2009 at 1:38 PM ^

I have two:

1. From basketball: "score the ball," as in, "Michigan just needs to score the ball and they'll be all right."

2. This one's more specific and nerdly. I hate when Troy Aikman inserts the word "what" needlessly into sentences, as in: "Romo panicked a little there. The pressure wasn't nearly as bad as what he thought it would be." or "Manningham has more speed than what the Giants thought he had."

AMazinBlue

September 29th, 2009 at 1:59 PM ^

"Irregardless of _______" is the dumbest phrase ever. What does that word actually mean?

Also, the whole RBIs vs RBI thing is silly. Call them RBIs, technically RBI is an acronym and the acronym plural is (RBI)s or RBIs. To be absolutely accurate I guess it would be RsBI which sounds stupid.

Also also: "Pound the rock" and "a down-hill running team". Is there such a thing as an uphill-running team? Does that mean they don't run hard or are slow.

Also, also, also: "ill-advised pass" If it's an interception than...duh.

Sambojangles

September 29th, 2009 at 2:07 PM ^

I hate it when announcers say a team "has to punt" or "has to settle for a field goal." Ignorant announcers perpetrate the myth that 3rd down is the end of the story. More often than not, going for it on 4th and short is the better play, and intelligent announcers would at the bare minimum mention the possibility of going for it.

Topher

September 29th, 2009 at 5:51 PM ^

"I hate it when announcers say a team "has to punt" or "has to settle for a field goal." Ignorant announcers perpetrate the myth that 3rd down is the end of the story. More often than not, going for it on 4th and short is the better play, and intelligent announcers would at the bare minimum mention the possibility of going for it."

I think a big part of this is that former players are overwhelmingly represented as gameday commentators. I can't remember the last time even a coach was a color man, let alone someone who hasn't been cut a check from an athletic organization. Then you start to realize that many former athletes were paid to play the sport, not necessarily understand it or come up with ideas, so you understand why their observations are trite and they are indoctrinated into the conventional wisdom of your sport. Too many are like that guy from Miami who said he wanted to get into the on-field fight with Fla Intl - caught up in the spirit of the ballgame and/or the banter in the booth, without really thinking that people are listening.

One thing that drives me nuts on this front is broadcasters laughing it up in the booth over some joke that has nothing to do with the game.

And for some reason the play by play guys are jocksniffers (witness the Tim Tebow obsession) so they are star-struck and never debate these fools behind the scenes. I suspect the producers are as well, since I never hear these guys get any better.

Feaster18

September 29th, 2009 at 3:42 PM ^

The two I can't stand: From multiple sports, any time a fight breaks out, we hear "Extra-curricular activities". Just say "fighting" instead.

From basketball: "Three-point land", as if it's some break-away former Soviet Republic.

captainlonghair

September 29th, 2009 at 4:15 PM ^

"Hold on folks..." Of course this has great value in the Brent Musberger drinking game, along with other Musberger quotes.

It's a little too late for this, but I adapted the Musberger drinking game to the Little League World Series. The list as follows is by no means complete:

1 drink if:
-the word "youngsters" is said (very common)
-"folks" of course still applies
-when mentioned, "in the little league game.." to distinguish it from MLB
-whenever mom is shown in the stands (must be ID'd as mom first)
-a kid cries
-a kid under 100lbs bats
-a kid over 6ft bats

2 drinks if:
-double play

finish your drink if:
-Musberger calls a HR before the ball goes over the fence
-you don't "hold on"
-Pete Caroll or Charlie Weis are mentioned
-Tim Tebow mentioned

eh, I'm bored with this. feel free to add to this...

Anonymosity

September 29th, 2009 at 5:25 PM ^

1. The use of "literally" when the speaker actually means "figuratively."

2. The phrase "spin cycle" when a basketball or football player executes any sort of spin move. Any announcer is almost guaranteed to use this phrase when Dwyane Wade is involved.

brooklynblue

September 29th, 2009 at 6:29 PM ^

"If so and so hadn't been tackled, that could have been a touchdown(!)". Well, no shit Sherlock.
Also, "Now its a football game" when the score gets closer, as if they were playing cricket beforehand.

The War Room

September 30th, 2009 at 10:14 PM ^

...an announcer - usually in basketball - starts going on about how "long" a player is when referring to wingspan, as in, "Wow, Brent Petway in the Michigan frontcourt is so long, he really makes the opposing team think before driving the lane."

I mean, I though Petway was great and all, but really, there are some things about my athletes that i just don't want to know...

ChiliDog

October 1st, 2009 at 1:02 AM ^

"The defense has to pin their ears back for this one". Pam "man hands" Ward loves that phrase. Im also sick of hearing Craig James rant about Georgia at the begining of every season, predicting a NC. A WAC playoff was also referd to as a WAC-off last week by some turd trying to get laughs as well. Very witty.