OT: Sports terms you can't stand/are tired of.

[gtcam]

diaper dandy

how many changed diapers are dandy?

 

[David 76]

Hear it less lately but always hated " they came to play"

 

[imno1]

BB IQ
Referring to the team as a product
And I get what the expression 3 and d means but it gets used too often if a guy’s only good skill is 3 point shooting. Someone here commented that Polley might have a chance in the NBA as a 3 and D guy. I can’t see him guarding multiple positions
Oh and casual fan

 

[RichZ]

I hate score the basketball and rebound the basketball.
Fudgy used to drive me nuts when he called every black player athletic (pronounced athaletic in fudgy-speak) and every white player intelligent. Not much of a racist, was he?

 

[jayteeman]

Ask George Carlin

 

[Jaker]

reminds me of Bob Knight and his rant on the "game face" LOL

 

[CTBballfan243]

The Patriots. Oh, I thought you said teams you can’t stand.

 

[jleves]

"Now that's a golf shot!"

 

[wheelerdog]

Student athlete

 

[CTMike]

“Casual fan”

 

[tiger8mush]

"crooked number", especially when Joe Castiglione says it 10 times during a single broadcast.

 

[Yorkeez4]

Anything Dick Vitale says!

 

[uconngb]

"Dribble drive". Looking at you, Doris Burke. How the hell else are you driving to the hoop?

THIS!!!

By far the most annoying.

 

[Horatio]

PHD’s , positionless basketball ( only works if you have at least 5 -6 positionless basketball players) , Dream Team .

 

[mussels]

Seems the boneyard hates all sports cliches. Now here it is gut check time, and I just can't think of any.

 

[Purple Stein]

Exit velocity in baseball. A “football move” in football.

“Launch angle,” too.

 

[methodology]

110% is the term I can't stand.

Or they are playing to win

 

[bmayuc]

I hate when announcers use the term "untracked" and "on track" interchangeably. It's a weird thing alot of them do.

Or "this team really needs to get untracked". All the time. Once you hear it once in a game you will hear it every game.

Dude, that does not mean what you think it means.

 

[Waquoit]

Taint (touchdown after interception) is better than Pick 6. I don’t know why they don’t use it.

“Johnson steps in the way for an interception! Could be a taint! One man to beat! It’s a taint, it’s a taint! Johnson with a taint!”

You could have used any surname for your taint example. You chose Johnson, that took balls.

 

[Magic32]

Physicality drives me nuts, it's used way too much.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Upside.

Athleticism.

Generational.

"Generational" is a fine term but it's absurdly overused. Shouldn't there be only one generational talent at a time in a given sport?

Mike Trout is a generational talent. It's gotta be on that level.

If you're using the term more than that, it's too much.

 

[Waquoit]

I hate score the basketball

Score the basketball was the first thing that came to my mind. It's just stupid.

 

[TRest]

Every dope on espn tv and radio shows stating “The National Football League” instead of NFL like it’s a mandatory requirement.

 

[LIuconn]

“...in the national football league...”

whenever an analyst talks about a player or skill set. There’s only 1 league in town...

 

[Get a Job]

Exit velocity is a real thing it correlates to more hits and homeruns. Sabermetrics

Also physics