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[FCollinsBuckeye]

A two-game series where one game is played at Team A's home venue and the other at Team B's venue is a "home and away", because it's exactly that...one home game and one away game for both teams.

Funny how you didn't state:

"one game is played at Team A's home venue and the other at Team B's home venue"

Since it wouldn't exactly jibe with your argument. :p

FWIW, how would Toledo describe their '09/'11 "series" with Ohio State from a few years back - a game at Cleveland Browns Stadium then a game at Ohio Stadium?

[/devil's advocate]

 

[MaxBuck]

"Home and home" is probably best described as a grammatical oddity reserved for sports use, like:

"Bye week," which has nothing to do with an actual competitive bye, but is rather only a week off.

"Flied out" in baseball.

There are more, but I have better things to do at the moment.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

There are more, but I have better things to do at the moment.

Really? This is the argument you'll walk away from? :p

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

FWIW, how would Toledo describe their '09/'11 "series" with Ohio State from a few years back - a game at Cleveland Browns Stadium then a game at Ohio Stadium?

IIRC, Ohio State was the "visiting" team and Toledo the "home" team in Cleveland. So, "home-and-away" could've applied.

The Youngstown State series in 2007 and 2008, where both games were played in The Shoe, is a perfect example of my point. Now that was a true home-and-home series for Ohio State (and an "away-and-away" for YSU).

 

[Zippercat]

Or perhaps it's phrased as it is because the first year team a is home and the next year, team b is home?

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Or perhaps it's phrased as it is because the first year team b is away and the next year, team a is away?

fify for "Away-and-away"

 

[TDunk]

While I agree it is mislabeled, the home-and-home series usually is quoted after the two teams that are involved. OSU vs TCU have agreed in a home-and-home series. Hence, OSU home and them TCU home game. Otherwise, yes home-and-away would be correct.

So:

 

[MaxBuck]

Really? This is the argument you'll walk away from? :p

Be quiet and have another pair of shorts.

 

[jlb1705]

When will these fucks learn that it's "home-and-away"? Each team plays a home game and an away game. Morons...

It's called a home-and-home because each team gets a home game. That's the terminology the athletic departments use when they are negotiating the deal.

"I get a home game and you get a home game."

 

[Deety]

That settles that, then.



Next up: Green or black, revisited.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

It's called a home-and-home because each team gets a home game. That's the terminology the athletic departments use when they are negotiating the deal.

"I get a home game and you get a home game."

Each team gets an away game, too. Since virtually all two-games series between team involves one game each at both venues, it's implied each will have a home game (and thus each also has an away game). You think the athletic departments would get confused if the term "home-and-away" were used instead? Didn't think so.

Take this example: You meet up with a friend after learning Ohio State has just agreed to a two-game series with Alabama, with one-game in The Shoe and the other in Tuscaloosa.
You: "Hey did you hear we're playing Alabama in 2020 and 2021?"
Him: "Really? Great!"
You: "Yep, it's a home-and-home series."
Him: "Holy shit, both games are home games? Why did Alabama agree to that?"
You: "No, it means there's a game at each team's home field."
Him: "Well then, that means there a game at each opponent's field. You can call it an 'away-and-away' series."
You: "That's not how it works."
Him: "Why not? If each team has a home game and an away game, 'home-and-away' makes more sense."
You: "Not really."
Him: "Whatever you say, chief..."

So, what would you call the two-game series we had with YSU?

 

[ScriptOhio]

So, what would you call the two-game series we had with YSU?

Choose one:

a. Tressel's gift to the YSU athletic dept.

b. A scheduling mistake, since I don't think Ohio State should schedule 1AA teams.

c. Two blowouts (38-6 & 43-0).

d. All of the above.



P.S. I agree with you on "home & away".

 

[HorseshoeFetish]

FWIW, how would Toledo describe their '09/'11 "series" with Ohio State from a few years back - a game at Cleveland Browns Stadium then a game at Ohio Stadium?

[/devil's advocate]

Shit hole and Away.

 

[Fremont Buckeye]

Take this example: You meet up with a friend after learning Ohio State has just agreed to a two-game series with Alabama, with one-game in The Shoe and the other in Tuscaloosa.
You: "Hey did you hear we're playing Alabama in 2020 and 2021?"
Him: "Really? Great!"
You: "Yep, it's a home-and-home series."
Him: "Holy [Mark May], both games are home games? Why did Alabama agree to that?"
You: "No, it means there's a game at each team's home field."
Him: "Well then, that means there a game at each opponent's field. You can call it an 'away-and-away' series."
You: "That's not how it works."
Him: "Why not? If each team has a home game and an away game, 'home-and-away' makes more sense."
You: "Not really."
Him: "Whatever you say, chief..."

I know this is an example, but if this is the first time your "friend" has heard of the term "home-and-home" and does not understand how it is played out, then you either (a) hang out with a bunch of idiots and/or (b) need to get new friends.

Apparently they left out the word "irony" in your dictionary.

Your you could start a wildly unsuccesfful campaign to have the term changed to whatever you would like it to be. Good Luck with that.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Your you could start a wildly unsuccesfful campaign to have the term changed to whatever you would like it to be. Good Luck with that.

I know media folks will type using the term incorrectly...just baffles me how terms like these come into usage in the first place. You'd figure media folks would comprehend basic English...