Most Ridiculous Sports Cliches

It is what it is.

All he did was <something exemplary.>

Oh, BY THE WAY, <completely relevant and planned point here.>

XXXgate(THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE YOU IDIOTS, WATERGATE WAS THE NAME OF THE COMPLEX.)

Physical football team.

The NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE.
 
"We just went out there and did what we knew we could do."

closely followed by a minor variant of the same:

"We just went out there and did what coach told us to do."
 
Actually, I had SEC speed and Beamer ball in one post and decided to make them two to pad my post count.
 
Anyone follow through and do a drinking game last night during the Bama game and take a shot whenever SEC Speed or Beamerball were mentioned?
 
Not sure if this counts as a cliche but I hate it when they go through this routine:

"And starting at quarterback for the Gators is, oh, I don't know, some guy you probably never heard of, [snicker], what's his name, Bob [laughter], I think it's something like, Tim Tebow, who [chuckle] won this little bitty award thing that you probably never heard of [snort], which I think is called the Heisman Trophy, and who, um, knows a thing or two about a thing you may have heard of called [uncontained chortling] leadership."
 
Anyone follow through and do a drinking game last night during the Bama game and take a shot whenever SEC Speed or Beamerball were mentioned?

Actually, SEC Speed wasn't really mentioned. Beamerball was talked about a lot though.
 
Although I was a big fan of his for about half of his career at ESPN --unfortunately everything about Dick Vitale is a sports cliche now and has been for at least a decade.
 
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