WHY DO AMERICANS USE REALLY LAME SPORTS METAPHOIRS ALL THE TIME

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especially polticians....?? it's so AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 5 September 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "step up to the plate" isn't the best example -- that's one that passed into such common speech that it's really idiom.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 September 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

because it makes them sound manly.
plus most of them played college football.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 September 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

anybody else think this was a Calum thread?

― hstencil, Friday, 5 September 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

*raises hand* I'm surprised i didn't see the word "bum" or "knickers" in the thread title, at first.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 September 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I would imagine that Vic is British, but "metaphoirs" sounds French.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 5 September 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

think outside the box Vic, they're just trying to level the playing field.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 5 September 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah, no need for the full-court-press, I was just trying to touch base with ya.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 September 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't lay in bed at night thinking about these threads because it all comes down to what goes on on the playing field. You gotta just take each of these threads one thread at a time and give one-hundred and ten percent to each of them. If someone gets a wittier zinger, that's fine, they played a bettergame today. That doesn't mean that tomorrow is a whole new day and that we won't get them next week. You hate to go up there and strike-out or throw a brick or not get the hits that you wanted, but that's just a fact of life that you have to accept and as long as you've got The Lord, Jesus Christ on your side, you can sleep better knowing that it's all in His hands.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 September 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

fair play tho, vic got there early doors and at the end of the day you know you've just gotta take the rough with smooth.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 September 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I was watching the debate last night & Lieberman tried to go on the offensive but ended up taking one for the team, 'cause Dean really hit it out of the park with his response.

And Redskins over Jets! HAHAHA. Excellent.

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 5 September 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

They should step up to the oche instead.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 September 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Penetrate the crease

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 5 September 2003 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bush performed a tactical 760 gnarly today"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 September 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i think we use the term "hate" too liberally.i hate that early monday morning alarm clock, stepping in animal defication, things of that nature. but people, i don't "hate" anyone. i find some people annoying as all hell sometimes, but i don't "hate" them. well, i do hate the drunk s.o.b that killed my fiance, i hate dictators trying to wipe out our way of life and life itself, but people talking in your idioms, shoot, i don't hate them, free speech and all, ya know?

― ryan t, Friday, 5 September 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Politics needs more skateboarding lingo references.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 September 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

In international news, President Bush's gay twist on the reconstruction of Iraq produced only a tepid recation ...

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Friday, 5 September 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

er, reaction

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Friday, 5 September 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i blame, at least a little, business lingo's infection of our day-to-day lives. (there is a ton of overlap between business-gibberish and sports gibberish, because, well, i think it's pretty self-explanatory.)

― maura (maura), Saturday, 6 September 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

*raises hand* I'm surprised i didn't see the word "bum" or "knickers" in the thread title, at first.

Calum can't be responsible for it all, though....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 6 September 2003 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I say guvnur this
yank sports lingo thing is quite
a sticky wicket

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 6 September 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

we must move forward, not backward, upward, not forward and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards glory.

When I was a child I dreamed of being a baseball.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 6 September 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the usa team has switched to a zone defense, tossing out their earlier man on man strategy. we may be looking at thread overtime, sportsfans!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Saturday, 6 September 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCKING REDSKIN MOTHERFUCKERS

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 September 2003 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(at least the phillies kicked met ass in the last two games!)

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 September 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Lame sports metaphors have totally caught on here too. My friend overheard a colleague say "Well it's your baby, so pick it up and run with it".

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 September 2003 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I don't think it's just Americans. For example: "Keep your stick on the ice."
Also, Nick's post disturbed me.

― kirsten (kirsten), Sunday, 7 September 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.nfl.com/photos/img6616597.jpg

sorry Tad.

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 7 September 2003 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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WHY DO AMERICANS USE REALLY LAME SPORTS METAPHOIRS ALL THE TIME - LIKE "STEP UP TO THE PLATE" ??!