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Most overused cliche in football?

I also hate hearing "_____ is putting on a "clinic" today". Whenever I think of a "clinic" I think of hungover adolescents sitting in a lobby scratching perfusely at their genitals, waiting for the nurse to issue out their creams and ointments.

Disclaimer: This is not from first-hand experience. I've watched numerous movies which have spawned this idea, thank you very much.
 
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buchtelgrad04;1332132; said:
"Track Meet"

Example: The Texas Tech and Oklahoma game should be a real "track meet" both have high powered offenses.

P.S. - What the fuck is a "barn-burner"?

This is what I found.

"Barnburner" had a considerable history before it came to mean an exciting and hotly contested sporting event. It first appeared around 1810 as a slang synonym for "radical," apparently in allusion to a parable in which a shortsighted farmer burns down his own barn in order to drive out the rats living within. "Barnburner" was most notably applied in the years leading up to the Civil War to radical abolitionist members of the Democratic Party who were said to be willing to "burn down the barn," to destroy their party, in order to rid it of pro-slavery "rats." This "cut off your nose to spite your face" sense of "barnburner" is now obsolete.
An entirely different sense of "barnburner" appeared around 1934, meaning "something excellent or very exciting." Barn fires are, of course, one of the worst calamities that can strike a farmer, but they are also usually quite spectacular, and "barnburner" probably derives from the excitement caused by such an awesome conflagration.
Ironically, "barnburner" in the "exciting" or "extremely good" sense was first used in that most un-athletic of games, bridge, to mean a very good hand of cards. From there it spread to encompass anything that "takes off" to become excellent or very exciting, from a basketball game to a political campaign
 
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JXC;1333902; said:
BEAT MICHIGAN!!!!!!

Re: overused cliche in football?

The cliche, "Beat Michigan" can NEVER be overused. :biggrin:

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Buck Nasty;1330648; said:
This past weekend I heard Dierdorf say " Brandon Jacobs just exploded all over him"

I would not say it's overused, but once is more than enough

I think that one requires a towel. I feel dirty now.

How about:

"Yeah, they really like this kid."

or

"he's a nice player"

Enough already.
 
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Bucky Katt;1353303; said:
"It depends on the spot!"

Yeah, no shit. It ALWAYS depends on the spot, cocksucker.

Exhibit A: In an NFL game a year or so ago, team A gets a 4th and inches spot. They line up to go for the 1st. But, alas, they get penalized 5 yards for false start. So, they line up to go for 4th and 5. Joy! defense gets tagged for their own 5 yard penalty. 4th and inches, right? Bring in the chains... 1st down!

:confused:
 
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