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A huge, huge, HUGE, pet peeve of mine is the classic mistake of football announcers calling a play a reverse when it's not. Or a double reverse when it's only a single reverse. GRRRRRRRRR! You are football announcers, this is simple stuff!
Simply put, for a reverse to happen, the ball must be traveling in one direction of the field, then be handed off going the opposite direction. This DOES NOT mean an end around where the quarterback hands off to the wide reciever is a reverse, its a frikkin' end around! In fact, unless the quarterback completely sprints to one side as if in a called QB Sweep, then a reverse requires exactly two handoffs, one from the QB to the RB or WR, then the other to the WR on the reverse. This is precisely why reverses are rare in the NFL, its hard enough for a QB to successfully hand off the ball with consistancy, much harder for a running back or wide reciever to do it while screaming across field at full speed. All this in addition to the fact that it takes so long to develop and the fact that a major part of the play involves having the ball carrier run backwards, which is never advisable unless you are dante hall and lucky as hell on kick returns.
At least this error is getting a little less common now that the End Around has been gaining popularity as a play, and imagine i'm not the only one to rip into people for it. Though the 'calling a reverse a double reverse' still happens regularly anytime anyone actually does do it. For gods sake, its a football game, you don't need to try to make it exciting by calling it the wrong freaking play! Quit trying to get yourself on audio highlights and call the damn game!
Oh yes, and as for college basketball, Billy Packer can suck my left nut if he can't be bothered to get players names right by the end of the season after broadcasting their games over 20 times. Jebus man, chill it with the whole senile thing or get off the air.
/not really as pissed off all the time
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