"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

Freddy wrote
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

Adam wrote
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

jeremy341a wrote
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".

jeremy341a

Camron Rust wrote
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.

Definition of definite.
1.
clearly defined or determined; not vague or general; fixed; precise; exact:
a definite quantity; definite directions.

I understand your point and I have no trouble with if you are at a 4 count being able to take 4 seconds off the clock even though 4 is an approximation. I feel that definite is not the correct term. You do have a definite count but not definite knowledge of how much time to take off. It is just semantics however I feel it could be worded better

Rob1968

Phrases such as, "there are 2 minutes left, to go, in the fourth quarter, of the game . . ."
How many times does an announcer need to say the same thing, in the same sentence? Duuhhhhh . . .

crosscountry55

rockyroad wrote
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.

No kidding, not 30 seconds after I read this, an announcer for the Outback bowl said, "He dialed up a trick play and Wisconsin snuffed it out." You're right, that is a ridiculously overused phrase.

bainsey

"over the back foul"
"reaching foul"
"baseline" (unless you're talking about the backboard)

grunewar

crosscountry55 wrote
You're right, that is a ridiculously overused phrase.

My all time, least favorite over-used phrase is 'Step Up.'

Lebron is injured and his replacement needs to 'step up' and replace him.