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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAdjectives I never hear watching American sports:
Lovely
Brilliant
Delightful
dameatball
(7,399 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)dameatball
(7,399 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,748 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)JDC
(10,129 posts)You definitely don't hear "Delicious" - as in a delicious pass - a Premier League favorite.
Golf is the closest we're gonna get to lovely or delightful. Brilliant might be used, but in a different context and with no charm.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)the Brit and Yank commentators while watching the Six Nations Grand Slam game on St. Paddys Day!
BeyondGeography
(39,375 posts)Brilliant is the only of those three I occasionally hear, and half the time its sarcasm.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Ohiogal
(32,012 posts)Many years ago watching a baseball game with my dad, Curt Gowdy was announcing the play by play, and in referring to the count on the batter, which was 0 and 2, he said "He's got two balls on him."
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Ohiogal
(32,012 posts)I meant to say the count was 2 and 0, not 0 and 2! My bad!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Ohiogal
(32,012 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)MuseRider
(34,111 posts)I hear those watching tennis sometimes.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)MuseRider
(34,111 posts)not if you are listening to Johnnie Mac.
Cirque du So-What
(25,949 posts)Never heard that term used in sports commentary.
Aristus
(66,397 posts)never go on the air unless they have a Southerner on the panel.
So he can say things like:
"Jew see hee-im kitch 'at bawl?"
rurallib
(62,426 posts)"You got to get it up to get it up to get it in"
Then he must have realized what he said, so he followed with "That's what my dad told me."