Sports clichés we could all do without
The Love of Sports put together a great list of sports clichés that the general public could do without hearing for the next couple decades.
1. “One Day (Game) at a Time”
Ah, how Zen. It’s great to know our admired athletes live along the same space-time continuum as the rest of us, despite possessing extraordinary physical skill. You may want to stay humble to maintain that underdog mentality, but don’t try to wow us with your existential wisdom.4. “Nobody Believed In Us”
Really, no one? How very lonely you pro athletes must be. If this were true, then we should all be thankful none of us has to deal with the crushing abandonment that a come-from-behind sports franchise must. Even the Rays had a few thousand “believers” and they claim the most anemic following of anybody. Save the pity card and enjoy the win.6. “We Never Gave Up”
On behalf of the millions of other fans who invest their money and time to watch you do your job, thank you. This should go without saying. So, by all means, don’t say it.8. “We Just Had to Come Out and Play Our Game”
Uh huh. And? What a way to say nothing, yet hint at something truly profound. We know what game you played, but damned if we have any idea what “your game” actually was – or is. Clearly the game the other team played, though technically the same as the one you were playing, was inferior to this mysterious “You” game. Tell us more.
The “Nobody Believed In Us” is beyond the point of annoying. Players like to assume that everybody is against them now and it’s ridiculous. The whole “respect” thing is getting really tired.
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I know this list is meant to be funny, and I agree that most of these cliches are pretty tired and useless, but as a former collegiate athlete, there something to be said for #1 and #8.
“One game at a time.”
This one is taught by any good coach, and is therefore a good principle to play by. Even if you have to play a weak team on Thursday before a “big” game on Saturday, you cannot look ahead to that Saturday game. You have to focus on the task at hand or else you’ll be the victim of an upset. There’s a reason why people say that a team was “looking ahead” when they drop a game against a weak team just before a big game.
This saying is especially true when a team needs to put together a winning streak (or maybe a 9-2 stretch) to get back into the playoff hunt). You can’t get bogged down by how daunting the overall task seems to be. You just need to win one game at a time and hope that things work out.
“We just had to come out and play our game”
This is one where I think that the poster missed the point of the cliche. It’s not that one team is playing a different sport, it’s that they are playing a different type of game. For years, under Mike D’Antoni, the Suns wanted to come out and push the ball up the court. That’s their game. If they come out and walk the ball up and slow the pace down, they’re not playing their game. There is a certain way that each team wants to play and the goal is to get the other team playing your game instead of their game…hence, the saying.
Cliches 101 is now over. Thank you for your attention.
Good call guys – they are all overused and about sickening. Remember, ” It ain’t over till it’s over ” UGH !