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NFL talking heads stuck in reverse

By Gregg Easterbrook
Page 2 columnist

Monday, December 9, 2002

"It's a double reverse!" No, it's not. Chances are it's not even a reverse. Of the many annoying football-announcer verbal tics -- and the total hard drive capacity of the entire Web combined prohibits listing every one -- the worst is shrieking "it's a double reverse!" on plays that are actually a single reverse or aren't even that. This is a equal-opportunity blunder, committed by all announcers on all networks at all levels of the sport. And it is time this problem were fixed. In the first ...

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