Greg's Top Ten Least Favorite Football Cliches:
1. Defense Wins Championships (This statement is insulting to offensive and special teams players everywhere, I'm sure. Just ask Super Bowl heroes Adam Vinatieri or Jerry Rice if defense wins championships.)
2. You Have to Run to Set Up the Pass (Really? Is there some mystical reason why you can't pass to set up the run?)
3. The Team That Makes the Least Mistakes Will Win the Game (How is that measured, exactly? Turnovers? Missed assignments? Least amount of drops? It's such an obvious and ambiguous statement that my head spins when I hear it.)
4. The Game Will Be Won or Lost in the Trenches (So, the entire game is decided by the offensive and defensive lines? Really?)
5. He Really Gives 110% (So, does the guy have an extra reserve tank that he keeps somewhere where the player can store an extra 10 or 15 percent?)
6. He's Deceptively Fast (I heard this about Jerry Rice quite a bit and it never made sense to me. If two players run the 40 in 4.2 seconds, how is one really fast and the other deceptively fast? If you're fast, you're fast.)
7. The Other Team Just Wanted it More (Really? Again, how do you measure that? Perhaps one team was just better than the other. Did you ever think of that, genius?)
8. This Guy is Going to be a Stud in the NFL (Good Lord, I hear this crap every year. How many people over the years were supposed to be studs only to turn out looking like total busts? Before every NFL season there are draft pundits galore who talk about how players like Jamarcus Russell, Charles Rogers or Andre Wadsworth were supposed to be studs. The truth is, no matter how much a player might look like a stud in college, it's hardly a guarantee he'll resume his studly ways in the NFL.)
9. At the End of the Day the Team with the Most Points Will Win (Swear to God, I heard Magic Johnson say this once. I've heard NFL announcers say it, too. It might be the most "duh" statement ever.)
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