Please ban the phrase "score the basketball"

[SilentsAreGolden]

What else are you gonna score?

 

[KWilt43atbuzz]

Score with the cheerleaders?

 

[Bkocats]

What else are you gonna score?

well, that depends on whether you play for UofL or not; I hear there are plenty of things to "score" there

 

[brianpoe]

cheerleaders scoring > basketball scoring

 

[JunkyardHawg]

What else are you gonna score?

First time I've ever agreed with the OP

 

[Teachable Moe]

For the love of all that's good, please, yes. It's just noise. Padding. Like a kid doing his term paper in a big font.

 

[3rex]

Gotta agree. Always thought "score the ball" sounded a little bit dumb.

 

[Xception]

well, that depends on whether you play for UofL or not; I hear there are plenty of things to "score" there

You've been on a mini roll with the one or two liners lately , I think you found your forte as opposed to lengthy posts . Just an observation , meant to be a compliment if construed otherwise .

 

[Bkocats]

You've been on a mini roll with the one or two liners lately , I think you found your forte as opposed to lengthy posts . Just an observation , meant to be a compliment if construed otherwise .

thank you, kind sir - I take it as the compliment you intended (would've anyway, without the qualifier )

 

[MegaBlue05]

Run the football is another one.

Naw, man. I thought they were running the golf ball.

 

[Ugoff]

On the court you score a basket, or a goal. The only ways to "score" a basketball is to go to the amusement park and hit three in a row, or cut the ball with an exacto knife. That phrase just grates on my nerves.

 

[Ripcord65]

I agree with the OP 100%.

 

[Wildcat-in-STL]

LOL like others have said....

 

[jrpross]

Irritating indeed. However even that's not as bad as when you're watching golf and they say "now that was a golf shot", as if it could have been a billiard shot or perhaps a gunshot.

 

[Bkocats]

Irritating indeed. However even that's not as bad as when you're watching golf and they say "now that was a golf shot", as if it could have been a billiard shot or perhaps a gunshot.

or a tequila shot, or a whiskey shot, or a........well, you get the picture

 

[KY Long Rifle]

I agree. Score the ball sounds like something someone made up to sound cute.

 

[Bkocats]

On the court you score a basket, or a goal. The only ways to "score" a basketball is to go to the amusement park and hit three in a row, or cut the ball with an exacto knife. That phrase just grates on my nerves.

LOL Hubby said the same thing - he said he hears "score the basketball" and is thinking - do you do that like glass cutting?

 

[catben]

I feel the same way about the phrase, "the bottom line". Vitale uses it way too much, but he's not alone.

 

[Poetax]

LOL like others have said....

Just saw where this cheerleading group won the National Championship again. 21 times, that is unreal.

 

[docholiday51]

I might have scored some weed in college

 

[musrat59]

Huggy Bear wore that phrase out when he was coaching at UC.

 

[UK90]

Completely agree with OP. I don't know how that dumb redundant phrase got popular, but its gotten quite annoying. We used to just say "score", worked just as well with fewer words.

 

[UKWildcatT]

Only if we can ban the word "beast"

 

[Bkocats]

Only if we can ban the word "beast"

but what would Beauty do?
oh wait......sorry, wrong connotation.......

 

[UKWildcatT]

but what would Beauty do?
oh wait......sorry, wrong connotation.......

Hey, one of my buddies wrestled as "the Beauty" and had a partner named "The Beast". Would only wrestle on a pink mat.

 

[BourbonBalz]

I agree with the OP, but there's another frequently used phrase that irks me even more. The one I'm talking about is he "left his feet" too soon or he should've stayed on the floor instead of "leaving his feet". I'm 53 years old and I've yet to see a pair of unattached feet on any basketball court. The phrase they're looking for is he "left the floor". To me, the way commentators use that phrase just sounds idiotic.

 

[OHIO COLONEL]

Unfortunately, for me anyways, in the last 20 years I think ESPN has changed the 'vocabulary' of sports. A lot of catch-phrases that weren't around years ago that to me are irritating as hell. Big mouth announcers (Chris Berman as an example) and ex-jocks all trying to out-cute each other I guess.

 

[SilentsAreGolden]

I agree with the OP, but there's another frequently used phrase that irks me even more. The one I'm talking about is he "left his feet" too soon or he should've stayed on the floor instead of "leaving his feet". I'm 53 years old and I've yet to see a pair of unattached feet on any basketball court. The phrase they're looking for is he "left the floor". To me, the way commentators use that phrase just sounds idiotic.

That's a good one that I had never even realized before.

 

[Smashcat]

Scoring the basketball is better than airballing the basketball though.

 

[ZenCatFan73]

This is funny. As a "student of language", I find stuff like this interesting. It's why George Carlin is one of my all-time favorite comedians.