Announcers

Watching football just isn't the same without announcers. (So we have a character affectionately named ANNOUNCER.) Love 'em.  Hate 'em.  Enjoy their well researched and expert insight.  Or, become horrified at their abject grammar and mixed metaphors.  For example, some NFL announcer often used the phrase "beating a dead horse into the ground"  which seems a ridiculous and cruel way to treat the individual phrases "beat a dead horse" and "beat it into the ground."

I also remember when NCAA hoops announcers became fans of the phrase "playing with pace."  Or, even further back, when they kept calling players "pepper-pots."  I was even less fond of announcers saying, when a coach benched a guy so he could catch his breath, that he was "getting a blow."  And need I even mention the over-over-used "bubble team" references that surface every February, baby.

So, listen closely this weekend.  Any word/phrases you particularly like, dislike, hope catches on, could go by the wayside in a hurry?

Obviously we're fans of "between the tackles" and also like the newish "running downhill"... but have concluded "perennial" may be used more by football announcers than master gardeners.