IT’S CALLED A STANCHION, DAMMIT
11.21.07Before you get all stuffed with turkey and tomorrow's football games, I wanted to revisit one of last Sunday's biggest stories — the Browns-Ravens field goal controversy/OT thriller –one last time. This is Browns QB Derek Anderson interrupting a "post-game" interview with the news that "we've got overtime!" But what bothers me is that the reporter doesn't even know the word for that, uh, horizontal connector thingy part of the goalpost. And he's not alone. I heard at least two or three other confused announcers, DJs, and average sports fans struggle with the terminology.
It's called a stanchion, people. I know they don't teach that at the learnin' farm no more, but try to remember it. Maybe you can show it off at the office holiday party while you're trying to impress the intern with the long-distance boyfriend.
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This is no way surly.
Um…sorry to read and all, but that is NOT a stanchion. Sorry dude. It's a crossbar. Note the difference between horizontal and vertical, as well as the difference between real Football and Association Football. God this site is getting queer with all the soccer nonsense.
on second thought, kill me.
How do you pronouce that? STANE-chi-OWN? Man, these crazy vocab terms, my head hurts.
"A stanchion is an upright bar or post, often providing support for some other object."
I think I've found a new name for my penis.
The '11 sports', it sways so gently, sooo sooooothing…. Im all yours Pete Gilbert, all, yours……..
The whole "lectern (spelling)"/"podium" thing has always pissed me off
Reporter: The Browns triumphed by kicking an oblong ball made of pigskin through a big "H". It was a most ripping victory.
I'm pretty sure the crossbar crosses. As a bar. Queer.
And not that it matters but the almost the same exact thing happened at the Bills game Sunday. Lindell's FG went through but hit the stanchion mounted camera and bounced back into the endzone. The refs got that call right the first time.
Bob Lamey is thankful we can all move along.
Maybe if Matt Stover was the Browns kicker it would have cleared the stanchion with room to spare. Come to think of it, Matt Stover WAS the Browns kicker and then Baltimwhore stole the Browns from Cleveland. So Ravens fans can go eat a bag of dick. We swept your murdering ass.
Wow. Vocabulary lessons from a beach-pounder. They should all be hanged.
If you're going to start bitching about people not knowing certain vocabulary words you should just change the name of the website to WithLeatherPocketProtectorsCuzImAFuckingGeek. That is all.
I stanchion is the post that holds up velvet ropes at clubs,
Well that wasn't funny at all
just call it a post!
"I heard at least two or three other confused announcers, DJs, and average sports fans struggle with the terminology."
Let's count:
1. other confused announcers
2. DJs
3. average sports fans
The above list is more than 2!! And lets not get into the fact that they're all plural.
Seriously, who the hell cares what it's called? When did this turn into Jeopardy? I don't see that canadian ponce trebek around here, do you‽‽‽