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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
(26,584 posts)dameatball
(7,399 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)JDC
(10,133 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
(26,584 posts)the Brit and Yank commentators while watching the Six Nations Grand Slam game on St. Paddys Day!
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)Brilliant is the only of those three I occasionally hear, and half the time its sarcasm.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)Ohiogal
(32,057 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
(26,584 posts)Ohiogal
(32,057 posts)I meant to say the count was 2 and 0, not 0 and 2! My bad!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)Ohiogal
(32,057 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)MuseRider
(34,119 posts)I hear those watching tennis sometimes.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)MuseRider
(34,119 posts)not if you are listening to Johnnie Mac.
Cirque du So-What
(25,973 posts)Never heard that term used in sports commentary.
Aristus
(66,462 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
(62,448 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."