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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAdjectives I never hear watching American sports:
Lovely
Brilliant
Delightful
dameatball
(7,400 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,685 posts)dameatball
(7,400 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,685 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,927 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,685 posts)JDC
(10,137 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
(26,685 posts)the Brit and Yank commentators while watching the Six Nations Grand Slam game on St. Paddys Day!
BeyondGeography
(39,390 posts)Brilliant is the only of those three I occasionally hear, and half the time its sarcasm.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,685 posts)Ohiogal
(32,133 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
(26,685 posts)Ohiogal
(32,133 posts)I meant to say the count was 2 and 0, not 0 and 2! My bad!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,685 posts)Ohiogal
(32,133 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,685 posts)MuseRider
(34,136 posts)I hear those watching tennis sometimes.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,685 posts)MuseRider
(34,136 posts)not if you are listening to Johnnie Mac.
Cirque du So-What
(26,020 posts)Never heard that term used in sports commentary.
Aristus
(66,487 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
(62,471 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."