COUNT THE CLICHES

All professional athletes are coached to pretty much say nothing original when they are interviewed by the media.  I’m pretty sure all coaches give each player an encyclopedia of sports cliches when they join the team.  Perhaps the most overused sports cliche is “We just have to play them one at a time.”  Then there is also, “You can’t win if you don’t score points.”, and scores of others.

As we are just days before this year’s Super Bowl XLIV, there have been tons and tons of interviews done with countless players and coaches just chock full of cliche after cliche.  You could have some fun with this by picking a particularly cliche laden interview and using it as the basis of a Count the Cliches Contest.  You, as the judges, predetermine what you consider a cliche in the interview and then play it for your audience.  Solicit a numbered caller to guess the correct total number of cliches contained in the interview and award the winner a prize.

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February 4th, 2010 | Tags: Sport cliches, Super Bowl | Category: Daily Blog, Sports