Firstly, you know your life is pathetic when you buy a new vacuum cleaner and are excited about it.
Secondly, sports journalism is fucking funny, one of the books I'm reading for my essay on sports journalism gave these examples which back up this claim:
"In the past few years (the book was publised in the mid 1980's) a horse has been called 'a well turned out convayance'; one athletics commentator noted 'whichever runner reached thew line first would win the race'; swimmer was said to have 'established a record never set before'; one football match had been in progress 'for a period of time ten minutes in duration'; instead of kicking a goal a player 'steered the spheriod through the tall timbers' and a skiier had 'his future laying ahead of him.'"
"One classic insight was cricket commentator Frank Tyson advising a batsman to score more runs by 'placing the ball into the open spaces created by the gaps left between the fielders'"
"'It was a dead heat between Azeem and the ball with the ball just winning.'"
All quotes from: Stoddart, Brian. “For a Description of Play. In Saturday Afternoon Fever: Sport in the Australian Culture by Brian Stoddart. North Ryde, NSW: Angus and Robertson, 1986.
( Still more proof that sport is funny. )
Secondly, sports journalism is fucking funny, one of the books I'm reading for my essay on sports journalism gave these examples which back up this claim:
"In the past few years (the book was publised in the mid 1980's) a horse has been called 'a well turned out convayance'; one athletics commentator noted 'whichever runner reached thew line first would win the race'; swimmer was said to have 'established a record never set before'; one football match had been in progress 'for a period of time ten minutes in duration'; instead of kicking a goal a player 'steered the spheriod through the tall timbers' and a skiier had 'his future laying ahead of him.'"
"One classic insight was cricket commentator Frank Tyson advising a batsman to score more runs by 'placing the ball into the open spaces created by the gaps left between the fielders'"
"'It was a dead heat between Azeem and the ball with the ball just winning.'"
All quotes from: Stoddart, Brian. “For a Description of Play. In Saturday Afternoon Fever: Sport in the Australian Culture by Brian Stoddart. North Ryde, NSW: Angus and Robertson, 1986.
( Still more proof that sport is funny. )
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