What sport cliches do you hate the most?

[grizzh8r]

This game is everything to them, their sole focus to beat us, maybe we should start doing that ourselves.

“The reason we lost is because we gameplanned for their best player, Troy Andersen... and he didn’t play.”

Wait, you hate that one? I love it! Goes to show you how obsessed he is with his hatred of all things MSU. It's in his head and it affects him. Makes it all that much sweeter when the Choate & Co. beat Bobbé and the Bears....

[bobcat99]

A one time quote is not a cliche.

Y'all gotta do better!

[083190]

"It's not about the money" and "Student/Athlete"

[Catsrgrood]

A one time quote is not a cliche.

Y'all gotta do better!

I know that, it was a little joke, relax.

[HelenaCat95]

Quiet Phase

[84CatGrad]

"Physicality"

"He took it to the house"

"We're going to punch them in the mouth"

[catatac]

"He just hasn't been able to get untracked yet..." I don't even know what that means.

Or "They" can't get untracked, talking about a team.

Also, just heard another one that bugs me as I'm watching an EWU, Idaho replay on ROOT. "Each guy just needs to do his 1\11th."

[Bobcat4Ever]

“They’ve got to be able to pass to open up the running game.”
“They’ve got to be able to run to open up the passing game.”

And the Granddaddy of them All (and I ain’t talkin’ Rose Bowl)

“... in the shadow of their own goal line.”

[BelgradeBobcat]

I think they're all covered in here:

[Cledus]

I think they're all covered in here:

Nice one! That jogged my memory to this:

[BLACKnBLUEnGOLD]

"He took it to the house"

I like this one just fine, because the alternative ("pick six") makes my blood boil.

[grizzh8r]

"He took it to the house"

I like this one just fine, because the alternative ("pick six") makes my blood boil.

So I suppose you really dislike Auburn's "kick six" then?

[ilovethecats]

This game is everything to them, their sole focus to beat us, maybe we should start doing that ourselves.

“The reason we lost is because we gameplanned for their best player, Troy Andersen... and he didn’t play.”

This will be my favorite for sometime. He flat out admitted that he prepared his guys all week for our linebacker to play quarterback. And when our linebacker and best player not only didn’t play quarterback, he didn’t play at all, and that was too much for them to overcome. Ha.

[Cataholic]

“Griz Cat” and “Fight On”. Not really a cliche, but it deserves special consideration for the dumbest things ever uttered in sports.

[bobcat99]

“Griz Cat” and “Fight On”. Not really a cliche, but it deserves special consideration for the dumbest things ever uttered in sports.

Griz-Cat makes my blood boil because it just sounds so wrong (because it is). Immediately lets me know I'm dealing with an idiot.

[Hi-Line Bobcat]

“You can’t win the game in the first quarter”

“That’s why you play all four quarters”

“Next man up”

[catatac]

"He's got a nose for the football."

"Line to gain."

"We still control out destiny."

[Joe Bobcat]

I agree with many of the hated clichés others have mentioned but not all of them. IMO the problem is often when a cliché is just used too frequently.
The thing I hate most involving the use of clichés is when a saying or cliché from one sport is used in a different sport. So many clichés from baseball or basketball are so sport specific that they have no business being used when talking football, and vice-versa.

[Rich K]

At the end of the day, I couldn't come up with any chiches that stand out in a crowd. I guess you guys just wanted it more.

[84CatGrad]

At the end of the day, I couldn't come up with any chiches that stand out in a crowd. I guess you guys just wanted it more.