Just another quick post for this week...
Watching football this weekend reminded me of 2 pet peeves I have when it comes to the announcers.
First, not all handoffs to wide receivers are reverses! The ball must be going in a direction before it can be reversed. After the quarterback takes his drop and hands it to a receiver, that's called an "end around." Now, if that receiver hands the ball to someone else running in the opposite direction THEN it is a reverse! So please, stop calling end arounds "reverses" and stop calling reverses "double reverses!"
Second, it is nearly impossible to catch a ball "at its highest point!" To be able to do that, at times a person would have to be able to jump 20 feet in the air; maybe even more depending on the throw. Certainly a receiver can catch the ball at his highest point of a jump but rarely can and receiver get the ball at the ball's highest point.
Thanks for letting me air that out.
Just Joe
Dear Just Joe,
ReplyDeleteHilarious stuff. And may I add that anyone who played Madden on SNES knows what an end around is, and it's eventual futility in picking up yards.
There is another I have noticed over the years. Some announcers like to say the following, every 15 minutes or so, "This is the biggest play to this point...." REAllllly? How many biggest play of the game can there be in a game? If you ask English majors, or even a 2nd grader, only one play can be the biggest, at any point. Whaddayasay Joe?
IO