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[Bad_Mo]

Anyone else notice how frequently this term is used these days? Joe QB can really put it in the windows on those intermediate routes...blah blah blah.

It went from interesting to mildly annoying to extremely irritating in about 3 weeks time for me.

I don't recall this term being used before this year. Do you?

 

[Bad_Mo]

Over 80 views and no comments.

I guess its worse than I thought. People can't even stand to comment on it.

 

[Lash]

thw Window for buying low on Dwayne Bowe shut 6 weeks ago

 

[TheChairman]

'Window' has been used in passing analysis for at least 48 years.

 

[Jayrod]

I thought this was about operating systems?

 

[DepthCharts]

the 80 views in in direct relation to the title being absolutely too vague. It has nothing to do with the greatness (or lack thereof) of the post OR the subject.

That being said, as with most humans, they remember the last thing they saw.....what was the last thing we saw that was worthwhile last night? A pass from Vick to Celek that I am guessing some announcer said that he fit it into the window.....(Vick, and by the way what a throw, the words I used to my daughter when watching the game was threaded the needle)

that being said, its not the window it fit in cuz you would break the window, its the opening in the window that was created when the window was opened (either by lifting the window up or sliding sideways)

 

[Bad_Mo]

I'm perfectly fine with "thread the needle"..."frozen rope"..."cannon"..."hit the bullseye"...and the like.

It just seems like every single announcer out there is using the term "window" waaaaaaay too much. Maybe they listen to each other's games to study up on their competition, much like players do, and they are unknowingly using the term.

 

[road warrior]

Should have made a poll for most irritating...

Window or

Bump Finley

 

[TheChairman]

I'm perfectly fine with "thread the needle"..."frozen rope"..."cannon"..."hit the bullseye"...and the like.It just seems like every single announcer out there is using the term "window" waaaaaaay too much. Maybe they listen to each other's games to study up on their competition, much like players do, and they are unknowingly using the term.

As soon as the SP stops using 'roll with' I will write a letter of complaint to every major sports agency regarding the use of 'window'

 

[ScottyDog]

These cliches are getting old.....just sayin'.

 

[Chaka]

Can't recall hearing even one announcer say that. Are you a RZ channel watcher or do you stick with one game? Maybe you can identify which announcers (color commentators) use the phrase and avoid the games.

 

[DepthCharts]

IIRC, the original window verbiage came from the saying "their window of opportunity is running out". See the Colts (Manning, James Harrison), see the yankees (Jeter, Posada, Rivera), see the Avalance (Borque), see the Sonics (payton and Kemp)....

this is where i recall the "window" verbiage starting. Now, that I think about this topic some more, and to keep on the Cliche topic....

So when a player is not doing well, the term announcers are using is he needs to get "UN tracked". Again, I think this is one announcers interpretation (how he heard it) turning the whole industry sideways. If a train is doing what they are supposed to be doing they are ON track. If they fail to do what they are supposed to be doing they become UN tracked. So, who and the heck was the first moron (I think it was James Brown CBS) who said he's got to get Un Tracked....LOL....NOOOO, he needs to get BACK ON THE FRIKIN TRACK as being UN tracked is causing all sorts of problems! I won't say Ebonics, but this is what I have ALWAYS thought when it came to this cliche.

Explain that one to me!

 

[GloryDaze]

Explain that one to me!

If they are on the wrong track, they need to get untracked.If they are on the right track, they need to stay on track.

 

[flc735]

I'm perfectly fine with "thread the needle"..."frozen rope"..."cannon"..."hit the bullseye"...and the like.It just seems like every single announcer out there is using the term "window" waaaaaaay too much. Maybe they listen to each other's games to study up on their competition, much like players do, and they are unknowingly using the term.

first of all..."frozen rope", "cannon" and "hit the bullseye"?? i never heard these terms AND they don't make any sense.the fact that they use 'window' so much is the only reason you are not sick of the other, thread the needle. its one or the other, take your pickthread-ing-the-need-le is a lot of syllables, i prefer wind-ow

 

[BobbyLayne]

The frisson conferred by window is off-the-charts.

 

[RamMan]

How about all of the announcers using the term "gumming the turtle" nowadays...you know, like when a really old receiver catches a TD from a really young QB? The anouncers always say "boy, Mark Clayton really gummed the turtle on that ball from Sam Bradford". I'm sure all of you are sick of that one.....aren't you? Hello?

 

[Crusaderfan]

Wasn't this conversation a Seinfeld episode?

 

[bulger2holt]

How about all of the announcers using the term "gumming the turtle" nowadays...you know, like when a really old receiver catches a TD from a really young QB? The anouncers always say "boy, Mark Clayton really gummed the turtle on that ball from Sam Bradford". I'm sure all of you are sick of that one.....aren't you? Hello?

Gumming the turtle ? That sounds like something an 80 year wife does to her husband.

 

[Black]

The window is the vertical 'bucket'.

You can get the ball in those 'small' NFL windows or drop it in 'the bucket' on a rainbow route.

Regardless, if there's anything I've learned from NFL Playbook, it's that it always helps to have a helmet-on-a-helmet.

 

[Doug Drinen]

So when a player is not doing well, the term announcers are using is he needs to get "UN tracked". Again, I think this is one announcers interpretation (how he heard it) turning the whole industry sideways. If a train is doing what they are supposed to be doing they are ON track. If they fail to do what they are supposed to be doing they become UN tracked. So, who and the heck was the first moron (I think it was James Brown CBS) who said he's got to get Un Tracked....LOL....NOOOO, he needs to get BACK ON THE FRIKIN TRACK as being UN tracked is causing all sorts of problems! I won't say Ebonics, but this is what I have ALWAYS thought when it came to this cliche.Explain that one to me!

I heard one time that "untracked" is a horse term. If your horse is stubborn and refuses to move, then he's standing in his tracks. If you take action to get him out of those tracks, you're getting him untracked.I know nothing about horses, so for all I know this is just a story made up after the fact. All I know is I heard it one time from a guy on a message board (and now you have too!) and it seemed somewhat believable.

 

[wormburner]

How about all of the announcers using the term "gumming the turtle" nowadays...you know, like when a really old receiver catches a TD from a really young QB? The anouncers always say "boy, Mark Clayton really gummed the turtle on that ball from Sam Bradford". I'm sure all of you are sick of that one.....aren't you? Hello?

Gumming the turtle ? That sounds like something an 80 year wife does to her husband.

Lost my train of thought!Oh, yeah. In golf, a "window of opportunity" is when an otherwise crappy forecast holds off long enough for you to slip in a round./window

 

[DepthCharts]

So when a player is not doing well, the term announcers are using is he needs to get "UN tracked". Again, I think this is one announcers interpretation (how he heard it) turning the whole industry sideways. If a train is doing what they are supposed to be doing they are ON track. If they fail to do what they are supposed to be doing they become UN tracked. So, who and the heck was the first moron (I think it was James Brown CBS) who said he's got to get Un Tracked....LOL....NOOOO, he needs to get BACK ON THE FRIKIN TRACK as being UN tracked is causing all sorts of problems! I won't say Ebonics, but this is what I have ALWAYS thought when it came to this cliche.Explain that one to me!

I heard one time that "untracked" is a horse term. If your horse is stubborn and refuses to move, then he's standing in his tracks. If you take action to get him out of those tracks, you're getting him untracked.I know nothing about horses, so for all I know this is just a story made up after the fact. All I know is I heard it one time from a guy on a message board (and now you have too!) and it seemed somewhat believable.

heck yeah!!, I'll buy that for sure. makes sense too as I believe I hear it more referenced to running backs then any other position. A life long question answered in the SP

 

[3nOut]

These cliches are getting old.....just sayin'.

This.

 

[RamMan]

How about all of the announcers using the term "gumming the turtle" nowadays...you know, like when a really old receiver catches a TD from a really young QB? The anouncers always say "boy, Mark Clayton really gummed the turtle on that ball from Sam Bradford". I'm sure all of you are sick of that one.....aren't you? Hello?

Gumming the turtle ? That sounds like something an 80 year wife does to her husband.

Yeah...I think the cliche was first introduced by Mrs. Tom Landry after Superbowl VI

 

[T J]

My pet peeve is when I hear "he gave 110%".

Last I checked, that's just not mathmetically possible. I know it's hyperbole, but for some reason, it just rubs me wrong.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Burn a timeout

Is a timeout considered a solid, liquid or gas? Seriously - take a timeout, use a timeout, but does it make any sense that you're going to torch one? Are they written on crepe paper, and you take out a zippo, and POOF! it's gone, man.

 

[Interception Irwin]

The one I hate is "early and often."

That has to be the most annoying, most overused phrase in football today.

 

[lynx4ben]

Wow I just knew I'd get dumber if I clicked this thread. The stimulating title was like a car crash that you just have to look at.

 

[Dizzy]

thw Window for buying low on Dwayne Bowe shut 6 weeks ago

That's right... cause HE'S A BEAST!