Phrases that need to spoken nevermore - nominations please

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Bitter End Club.

As a charter member and witness to many bitter ends, I move that it be dissolved forthwith...

Go Gophers! Beat the Lions!
 

"8 / 9 MEN IN THE BOX"
"AT THE END OF THE DAY" and
"SENSE OF URGENCY"
 

"IT'S ANOTHER GOLDEN GOPHER FIRST DOWN!!!" I'd prefer simply "First Down Gophers".

"The IH Red Zone."
 


Dean S said:
Minnie means "sky" in Ojibwa. There is a township in Minnesota named Minnie. There is a lake Minnie in Minnesota. There is Minnie and Paul on the Twins logo. There is of course Minneapolis (Sky City!). Lake Minnetonka (Big Sky). There is nothing derisive or dismissive in the nickname Minnie for Minnesota. It is merely the first word of two in its original form. That being said, go ahead and plunge forward by dismissing it as "bad".
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99% of the time it is used the person saying it either means 'mini' or is a person that annoyingly shortens everything trying to speak in a language of nicknames.
 


Buck_Buchanan said:
"8 / 9 MEN IN THE BOX"
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I nominate this one to the top of the list.

I bet the average non-Xs/Os viewer really has no idea what this means. So overused and never really explained with a simple telestrator drawing.
 

Running "north and south" or "downhill".
 


> put air under the ball
(cute once or twice, but worn out now)
> offensive possession
(There's no other kind)
> three and out
(weary)
> pick six
(weary)
> running game
> passing game
> kicking game
(what does "game" add to any of those three?)
> under the bus
(shopworn)

Sports is second only to business consultant speak and just ahead of street lingo on the Enemies of the English Language list.
 





And the recent phony-familiarity practice of identifying some players by only their first names.
 

Sid's "close personal friend" or " all the geniuses over at......"
 





Doc hears that daily
 




"What would our offense be like if A.J. Barker had stayed?"
 


badgergopher said:
99% of the time it is used the person saying it either means 'mini' or is a person that annoyingly shortens everything trying to speak in a language of nicknames.
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Yes, when I am at MSP, I hear Minnie or Sota the most often. Business guy comes into town and says to his "bruh" while on his cell phone, "dude I just landed in Minnie...are we still going to Frisco next weekend?":)
 

FanSinceTheFifties said:
> put air under the ball
(cute once or twice, but worn out now)
> offensive possession
(There's no other kind)
> three and out
(weary)
> pick six
(weary)
> running game
> passing game
> kicking game
(what does "game" add to any of those three?)
> under the bus
(shopworn)

Sports is second only to business consultant speak and just ahead of street lingo on the Enemies of the English Language list.
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You are THE MAN. Keep fighting the fight!
 

Somehow I think the Happy End Club will catch on. I hope the happiness does though.



BilldGopher said:
Bitter End Club.

As a charter member and witness to many bitter ends, I move that it be dissolved forthwith...

Go Gophers! Beat the Lions!
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There's a time out on the field
And that's another Gopher first down!!
Rah!
He needs to put more air under the ball!
Run to daylight
A thirty second time out.
 


McGopherFan said:
Has anything more true ever been said?
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Virtually impossible not to fall back on cliches when your talking for three and half hours about a game that can have a whole lot of down time. Limiting cliches may be the best you can hope for.

Oh, for the next couple of games, I'd like to here dozens of:

"That's another Golden Gopher First Down!!"
 

I didn't want to re read...has "under the radar" been mentioned?
 

Another thing that annoys me personally, though I'm not really sure why, is when people refer to specific games by just the score, as in "I still remember 84-13," or "I was at 55-0, it was terrible." I'm not going to reminisce on the Nebraska game by saying "rushing the field after 34-23 was awesome," or the Indiana game last week by saying "Do you remember the end of 42-39? What a thriller!"

Not really related to sports, but it's happened on here before, when someone refers to a person they're arguing with as "my friend," like "You, my friend, have no idea what you're talking about."
 

"She devoured his manhood". A phrase that I've always considered overtly pretentious. And vague! C'mon, how?...where? Inquiring minds want to know.
 

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