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If you’re a sports reporter who is looking to get some payback on an editor who has a knack for painstakingly butchering an otherwise Pulitzer-worthy original copy, go ahead and infest your next assignment with as many clichés as possible.
Editors hate clichés like Sicilians hate the mainland.
Television-watching football fans, conversely, expect to hear the convenient figures of speech commonly used by announcers to describe their respective teams, players and coaches.
For the San Francisco 49ers, there is probably going to be a limited frame for error to work with during the average 2009 contest. Let’s face it; they just don’t have Patriot or Steeler talent, depth or wit.
After watching a week’s worth of playoff basketball, I was able to record the essential clichés that 49ers fans will both want and not want to hear during a Sunday afternoon in front of their Bay Area plasmas...
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