"You Don't Say!"

[Freddy]

Lake Superior State University annually publishes its list of words and phrases they figure should be banned from the English language. "Polar Vortex"..."Hack"..."Skill-Set"..."Polar Vortex" -- all qualified for suggested censorship for 2015, amongst others you're probably sick of, too.

What words and phrases all-too-commonly used/misused by fellow officials, coaches, players, fans would you like to see banned this year?

[Freddy]

Officials: "In my game, . . ."

[Adam]

For the kids

[bob jenkins]

"In my little corner"

[jeremy341a]

Definite knowledge. As you can not have definite knowledge of a continuous variable at any time other than when the clock is initially set.

Even if you have a count that is not definite knowledge of the exact time. Even if you seen the clock at 31.8 doesn't mean it wasn't 31.84.

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by Freddy

Officials: "In my game, . . ."

Officials have different personalities and different ways of handling situations, and as long as an official stays within the rules, there's nothing wrong with having different opinions on how things should be handled.

Some of mine...

"Over the back"
"Offensive foul"
"He wasn't set"
"He gets two steps"
"I can't make that call, coach, that's not my area"

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Adam

For the kids

Absolutely right. Anytime I see that we mainly do this "for the kids" my eyes involuntarily roll.

[bballref3966]

"He's just defending his guys."

"75% of these plays are blocks."

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by jeremy341a

Definite knowledge. As you can not have definite knowledge of a continuous variable at any time other than when the clock is initially set.

Even if you have a count that is not definite knowledge of the exact time. Even if you seen the clock at 31.8 doesn't mean it wasn't 31.84.

You seem to not understand the difference of definite and accurate/exact. You can very much have definite knowledge of a continuous variable but it may not be precise or accurate. We only are required to have definite knowledge, not accurate/exact knowledge.

Did you get to 4 on three different 5 counts? You definitely did regardless of how accurate that counts are.

[crosscountry55]

Coaches: "Get him off!"

Players: "I was boxing out!"

Officials during captains' conference: "[Color] talk to [color], white talk to white." I think that's perhaps the most useless utterance in our profession.

[Rich]

"I was talking to my players..."

[SC Official]

"Who will be the speaking captain?"

"On the floor!"

[rockyroad]

"And 1!"

[rockyroad]

I know it's a different sport, but with all the Bowl games this time of year...I want to scream every time I hear one of these color commentators say:

"He dialed up..." followed by anything - a blitz, a long pass, a screen, whatever.

[Mark Padgett]

The phrase from a coach or player that should be punished with being slowly roasted over a fire is: "CALL IT BOTH WAYS".