“He started out gangbusters and he hasn’t slown down.”
—An SEC play-by-play announcer during Saturday’s Texas A&M-Mississippi game. (Where do they find these maulers of the English language?)
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This is the way all Louisiana educated people will be talking if we don’t restore funding to education from K through PhD.
Agreed, but it wasn’t a Louisiana play-by-play announcer who said that; it was an SEC network announcer. LSU’s announcer Chris Blair prefers to say things like “Duplantis is playing way over toward center, leaving a lot of room between the right field line and he.” (Yes, he really did say that earlier this season.)
Bob in BR
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Slown
I wonder how the announcer would feel if he knew the definition of the word in the urban dictionary?
I heard O.J.Simpson use the same word during a game he was a commentator on (MNF?) in the late 70’s and we all got a kick out of it. We thought it was a scholarly O.J. term and we used it whenever we saw fit. It now seems it may pre-date him. Anyone else know of an earlier use (other than Stephen’s that is 😂)?
Tom, I admit that I have a long-standing affection for the grammatical miscues of baseball announcers. This harkens back to the days I listed to Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese on the baseball Game of the Week. Dizzy, who never met a sentence he couldn’t mangle, would be heard to say, “He slud into third base, and he’s not out!”
Did you ever hear him try to pronounce “statistics”? And what about the blooper when he was teamed with Bud Blattner (before Pee Wee)? I didn’t see it myself, but legend has it that the camera was panning the crowd when it stopped on a couple making out in the stands. The camera went back to them after each pitch and each time it would catch them kissing. Finally Diz opined that “He’s kissing her on the strikes and she’s kissing him on the b..ls.” According to the story, the sound went dead for a couple of innings after that.