What Football Phrase Annoys You The Most?

[Denzera]

My least favorite phrase is actually the word "football".

Pregame show guys and announcers are always saying "football team", instead of just "team"; "football field" instead of just "field"; "football player" instead of just "player"; "football game" instead of just "game"; and others I'm probably forgetting right now.

Once you start noticing it, it'll drive you crazy.

That's definitely a candidate. "VINCE YOUNG JUST WINS FOOTBALL GAMES!"

And remember, you don't execute running plays, or handoff to your running back... you RUN THE FOOTBALL! That's what the Jaguars need to do, they need to RUN THE FOOTBALL!

...cause, you know, if they tried bringing a beach ball out there and handing it off, there'd probably be a flag on the play or something. Definitely want to make sure you're using a football and only a football.

edit: football.

 

[Dr Pain]

The “whole 9 yards” which is not about football but about giving them the whole 27 feet of ammunition in each 50 Caliber gun on a WWII fighter plain. You give someone the whole 9 yards when you shoot them you don’t go for the “whole 9 yards”

 

[Fixit]

I also despise when announcers call an end-around a reverse, and a reverse a double-reverse.

 

[Fanfrom1960]

"Off the edge"

"That team never quits", or "that team could easily have quit."

"Thrown Under the Bus"

"That team is very physical." (especially this week)

 

[Lampshade]

One that really irritates me, and was in constant use earlier this year, is "calling the dogs off".

 

[RussFrancis]

"IT IS WHAT IT IS"!

The latest catch phrase. This one has just worn on me because "what exactly is what what is"?? I hear so many guys say this, and of course we understand generally what they mean, but give an answer already. Like the Baltimore players explaining away their complete and total crumble in the last few minutes of that game when referring to the penalties and supposed 'bad calls'. Give an answer fellas. Explain without copping out and taking the easy road. "It is what it is". Someone wash it away, please.

 

[MRBLAZE]

Not really an annoying phrase, but every time someone says a game is going to be or is a dogfight, I can't help but think of Michael Vick and then am disgusted a little.

Also Bryant Gumbel has so many annoying phrases...

"it appears to be a first down" after a player is like 5yds clear of the first down marker. Way to go out on a limb, Bryant.

 

[reflexblue]

We have to make plays........duh. no sh!t.

"He gives 110%" .... how is that possible.

John Madden: " I think to myself ,what would Bret Favre do"?

We have to take it One Game at a time! Goes with we have to make plays catagory....duh, no sh!t. What are you going to play two at once.

 

[Marshy]

Without a doubt when any NFL analyst refers to the game as the "National Football league"

"To be a quarterback in the National Football League..."
:bricks:

 

[Jagwyer]

Great game manager

 

[TheGodInAGreyHoodie]

when they pronounce an "R" at the end of re-see-vah.

Randy Moss and Wes Welkah ah da 2 best re-see-vahs in da league.

there is only one "R" in re-see-vah and it is at the beginning.

 

[raspberry]

Not so much phrases as mispronunciations.

Jag-wires (or worse, Jaggy-wires) vs. Jaguars
lacksadaisical vs. lackadaisical
Tuh-RELL Owens vs. TEHR-ell Owens

 

[LaBrady]

Anything with "class" in it. And it seems like the class card is only used in football lately.

 

[TheGodInAGreyHoodie]

The “whole 9 yards” which is not about football but about giving them the whole 27 feet of ammunition in each 50 Caliber gun on a WWII fighter plain. You give someone the whole 9 yards when you shoot them you don’t go for the “whole 9 yards”

9 yards won't get you a first down. I want the whole 10 yards.

 

[patchick]

Without a doubt when any NFL analyst refers to the game as the "National Football league"

"To be a quarterback in the National Football League..."
:bricks:

Ooh, yeah! That's the extreme version of "Football Player," "Run the Football," etc. Does any other sport talk about its league like that? Have you ever heard...

"To be a shooting guard in the National Basketball Association"
"To be a third baseman in Major League Baseball"
etc.?


And another that sets my teeth on edge:

"The keys to this game are going to be who makes the big plays and who wins the turnover battle." Right-o, keys that don't involve knowing squat about either team, how handy! (An NFL coach actually offered this classic "expert analysis" in a Globe article this week, made me stop reading the article.)

 

[sbcpats70]

"They're a physical team"

IT'S A MFing PHYSICAL SPORT, MORONS!!!!!

 

[Pats Fanatic]

"To be a shooting guard in the National Basketball Association"

Saying that reminds me of people that call the NBA, The Assocation for some reason I hate that.

 

[Fanfrom1960]

when they pronounce an "R" at the end of re-see-vah.

Randy Moss and Wes Welkah ah da 2 best re-see-vahs in da league.

there is only one "R" in re-see-vah and it is at the beginning.

10 characters. There's another annoying one (10 characters).

 

[brdmaverick]

"what they will need to do to win this game is run the ball, play good defense, and win the turnover battle"

 

[Pats Fan in Indy]

"the team nobody wants to meet in the playoffs." especially this week. ummmm.... WE'RE the team nobody wants to meet in the playoffs!

"the Colts are under the radar" or something like that. Really? Is a 13-3 team with a first round bye really under the radar? I'm TIRED of hearing that.