Hated sports cliches

• A PAC

  

  When announcers use ridiculous stats to analyze a game. "Tom Brady is 3-0 when playing at home in AFC championship games when the other team has linebackers under 6'6", the wind is out of the north and he eats Frosted Flakes for breakfast." Stuff like that.
• O-Trap

  

  "blood, sweat, and tears"
  
  Not only does it sound horribly cliche, but if tears played such a key role, then someone needs to slap on some Summer's Eve.
• Sonofanump

  ccrunner609;1370240 wrote:quick first step

  I have a quick first step, after that they all pass me by.
• said_aouita

  

  Rebuilding year
  
  
  Face it, some teams are meant to be losers.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Go Browns
• like_that

  

  I wish rg3's dick was in my my mouth. -said
• wes_mantooth

  

  like_that;1370805 wrote:I wish rg3's dick was in my butt. -said

  fixed
• Dr Winston O'Boogie

  

  Body of work. This expression comes from the artist/writer community and has traditionally described a person's whole portfolio. Benign enough. Somehow a meatball from sports radio glommed onto it a few years ago and it has proliferated. Picasso has a "body of work"; Adrian Peterson does not.
  
  Take it to the next level.
  
  There's no question about it - when a coach or player agrees with the premise of a question. Ex. "Was your opponent well prepared? There's no question about it."
  
  "Football". What I mean by this is the propensity for everyone associated with the sport to constantly remind us what sport we are talking about ast though we are constantly forgetting. "Johnny U. is a tremendous "football" player. He sees the entire "football" field". Now granted he's playing for a "football" team with strong senior leadership. But that'st he kind of "football" he's going to have to play if he wants to win a lot of "football" games. Notice that basketball, and especially baseball people rarely if ever do this.
• thavoice

  My pet peeve in sports is from announcers that is for sure.
  
  For instance when they question a play call or a pitch in baseball. It doesnt work, so they blast it like crazy but in reality most times it was the play or pitch but the execution!
  Examples:
  1. Seattle vs Atlanta. 4th and 1. Hawks give it to some back, not Lynch or Russel, and he doesnt get it so they BLAST the play call. (i did as well) BUT if the player gets the yardage for a first down you know what the announcer will say "what a great call. Everyone is expecting Lynch or Russell to get the ball...."
  2. Baseball, matchup pitcher vs hitter. Ya hear it all the time on reds telecasts and I presume every telecast for other teams as well.
  Situation: Batter gets a hit on a FB. He made an out earlier on a breaking ball. "Why did they throw him a FB in that situation? He made an out earlier on a breaking ball"
  BUT if the batter makes an out ya get a comment like this "The batter made an out on a breaking ball earlier so he was expecting another in, but the pitcher fooled him and got him with the fastball"
• fan_from_texas

  A PAC;1369718 wrote:When announcers use ridiculous stats to analyze a game. "Tom Brady is 3-0 when playing at home in AFC championship games when the other team has linebackers under 6'6", the wind is out of the north and he eats Frosted Flakes for breakfast." Stuff like that.

  
  This. Those aren't stats: that's trivia. It may be interesting, but it doesn't have predictive value.
• equus

  "Left to go"
  "Remaining to play"
  Or as I heard one announcer say "Left to go remaining to play".
  There are 3 minutes left.
  There are 3 minutes to go
  There are 3 minutes remaining
  There are 3 minutes to play.
  There are not any combination of those.
• Trueblue23

  

  ccrunner609;1369719 wrote:so basically the whole sport of baseball?

  This. The stupid stats in baseball are ridiculous.
• dlazz

  Offensive/defensive rankings. They're fairly pointless