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Sports critic Bill Mayo disagrees, saying that sports clichés are used "just the right amount," and "it is what it is." Former New York Giants quarterback -turned CBS broadcaster Phil Simms devotes a large portion of his 2004 book Sunday Morning Quarterback to examining football clichés such as "winning the turnover battle", "halftime ...
The use of music at sporting events is a practice that is thousands of years old, [1] but has recently [when?] had a resurgence as a noted phenomenon. Some sports have specific traditions with respect to pieces of music played at particular intervals. Others have made the presentation of music very specific to the team—even to particular players.
Sports-speak, like music-speak, relies on clichés that are understood by those who understand them but which are unknown by people who don't know the lingo. Wikipedia is not a sports encyclopædia, a music encyclopædia or anything else. It is supposed to be an encyclopædia understood by anyone. So 'in-house' clichés are out.
Some statistical analysis by academic researchers and sports media members alike have provided moderate pushback on the adage's assertion. Research on the concept has shown that good offensive play in addition to good defensive play leads to championships, rather than just the latter, and that the correlation between defensive performance and playoff success is similar to the correlation ...
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Clichés often are employed for comedic effect, typically in fiction. Most phrases now considered clichéd originally were regarded as striking but have lost their force through overuse. [ 5 ] The French poet Gérard de Nerval once said, "The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile."
Hurrey is the author of the book Football Clichés released in 2014. It was named book of the week in The Independent, [1] and in The Daily Telegraph was described as the spiritual heir to fanzines and the gleeful radio shows of Danny Baker and Danny Kelly. [2] An excerpt of the book appeared in The Guardian. [3]
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