Sports Clichés
It can be rather comical when listening to all of the sports clichés that are used during any pre- or post-game interview and the corresponding analysis of any sporting event. The cartoon on the left from VectorBelly is the stereotypical post-game interview. The interviewer asks, “What’s your strategy for the next match?” to which the athlete responds, “We need to stop the other team from scoring points while we ourselves score many points.” We hear commentary that is often merely a statement of the obvious, or phrases we have adopted into our vernacular which on the surface, do not even make sense, but we all know their figurative meaning. Some of these clichés, just to name a few are:
- We are going to take it one game at a time.
- This is a game of two halves.
- We have to make plays on both sides of the ball.
- We have to stop the big play.
- We just need to go out and execute.
- We need to take it to the next level.
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D. Scott Carter 