Sports cliches and other sayings

[Art Sandusky 0]

My favorite is "Lunchpail Guy"

Hell yeah. It's the first thing that pops into my head whenever I think of the Browns.

[CanadianChris 0]

"That's why they play the games."

 

"On paper, this shouldn't be close."

[razazteca 0]

"Its a battle of attrition" , "Liver kick" , "It's only pain there is no real injury" are words of wisdom from MMA announcers.

[CanadianChris 0]

Re: specific golfers.

 

Adam Scott - "Great Scott!"

Ted Purdy - "That was a purdy shot!"

 

I'll think of more as tonight's PGA tour coverage on the Golf Channel progresses.

 

This is about sports cliches.

Those aren't even cliches, they're just bad puns.

[Slayer 0]

Or in 04 when the Vikings made it despite losing the last week of the season, which gave them a game at Lambeau, which they inevitably won either ways. Or in 03 when the Vikings lost the last game of the season at the last second to help the Packers into the playoffs.

'04, yes

 

'03, no, because Green Bay won their game. Had Green Bay lost, then Minnesota would still have gone in spite of the Arizona loss, and that would be a prime example of "backing in"

 

Why do these sorts of things always seem to involve the Vikings??

As Lex Luger would say: "I DON'T KNOWWWWWW!"

[CanadianChris 0]

Another one I just thought of, relating to clutchiness...

 

"He has ice water running through his veins."

[Brett Favre 0]

"He knows how to win."

 

Really? What's the secret?

[KingPK 0]

"Nobody gave us a chance/thought we could do it/believed in us", etc. The whole disrespect angle.

 

The whole Kellen Winslow Jr. "I'm a SOLDIER!" attitude. You are playing a game for millions of dollars; you ain't defending a country.

[Guest Princess Leena]

What's worse is how many players are copying that soldier bullshit.

[Brett Favre 0]

"They just won't go away quietly."

[Darthtiki 0]

They are who we thought they were

[Star Ocean 3 0]

"Shame on you."

 

"Look at the schedule, guys!"

 

"You're too deep in the forest to see the trees."

[the max 0]

For sports with playoff series "Their backs are against the wall" always bothered me. Just say "This is a must win." There's no reason to bring backs and walls into it.

[naiwf 0]

"It was a moral victory". Even in Little League there are no moral victories.

[Art Sandusky 0]

"He knows how to win."

 

Really? What's the secret?

Cheating. Duh.

[MFer 0]

"It just wasn't meant to be"

 

"Things happen for a reason"

 

Shut the fuck up, you guys played like shit. Quit trying to imply that it was out of your control.

 

"Not to take anything away from the other team, but we didn't play the way we're capable of playing."

 

Way to give the other team credit. Whenever you preface a statement toward someone with a "not to" (not to offend anyone...etc...) you meant to say it.

[Red Baron 0]

"Give me the ball more often and we would win more."

 

No T.O. you dropped the ball way too many times today.

 

Al:

 

I beg to differ about defence wins championships for hockey. Defence and goaltending are the major success for winning the Stanley Cup (and special teams as well).

 

 

"We just didn't have the heart/emotion/intensity as the other team out there."

 

 

"(random coach) is a genius for creating plays, using creative players in creative situations that you don't know what he is going to do next."

[Guest Vitamin X]

I have to disagree on defense winning championships as well even in football. While this could start a whole debate on its own, if you examine the last few Super Bowl champs (`05 Steelers, `03-`04 Pats, `02 Bucs, `01 Pats, and `00 Ravens) they all had great defenses and beat teams with great offenses to get to the championship game in the first place (look at how the `98 Falcons beat the best offense of all time, the `98 Vikes, or how the lowly 2000 Giants beat the first Culpepper Vikes, or the Pats owning the Colts, and the Steelers winning last year). I can't remember the last team that had a legitimately great offense and a terrible defense that won a championship in the NFL, maybe the 99 Rams? But then again, they won BECAUSE of a great last second one-yard tackle. And they had the most turnovers in the NFL that season.

 

You need a great defense to win games, but a good offense to go along with it will make you a dominant team.

[Star Ocean 3 0]

Special teams wins championships.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Well, that's why they're special.

[The Niggardly King 0]

"He plays the game the way it was meant to be played."

[Guest]

"Defense wins championships."

 

That's a load of horseshit. I'm speaking in football terms, not basketball, where it really is the end-all-be-all.

No, that's horseshit anywhere. The only way the defense succeeds is if the offense fails, and vice versa. It's a self-fulfilling prophesy. Except in golf, where defense has never won a championship.

 

The ONLY reason the Ravens won the Super Bowl was because of their defense. Without that defense and their crappy inept offense, they wouldnt have even won 3 games that year. The offense didn't score a TD for 5 straight games and they still managed to win 2 of the 5 because the defense only allowed 44 points including a shutout.

 

for cliches I was thinking "I need to step my game up" (before a game) "I stepped my game up" (after a win) and "Give it 110%"..

Oh, bullshit. They won the Super Bowl because they were more disciplined than the other team, made plays on offense, and had one of the best offensive lines in football. The defense keeps you IN THE GAME, but it does not win the game. You have to be able to put points on the board.

 

I would say offensive lines win championships, because when was the last time a team with a shitty o-line won it all (never), but it's not glamorous to make such statements.

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

Are you John Madden?

[Guest]

Why, of course not. The offensive line thing was part of a debate that I was having with someone about defense, and when I brought it up they couldn't give me a straight answer.

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

You were supposed to say "BOOM!", and then we'd all have a good laugh. Those big 'ol offensive linemen are working hard out there to make plays.

[The Niggardly King 0]

"I LIKE these big lugs who don't get that much recognition... they battle in the trenches... BOOM!"

[Darthtiki 0]

Special teams wins championships.

 

Well they gotta give something to all the participants of the special olympics....1 ticket to hell please.

[The Niggardly King 0]

"(Insert coaches name here) is really a different coach than others... he'd rather have a player that will give it his all and leave it all out there... even though he has mediocre talent, than a guy with all the talent in the world, but only shows up to play every once in a while. (Insert coaches name here) is such a refreshing change to most of the coaches in this league."

[Brett Favre 0]

"I tell you what..this team came to play!"

[Guest Vitamin X]

And now it's almost as if we're just trying to recollect as much as we can remember from playing sports video games since the play by play and color is pretty much ALL sports cliches.