"Pick Six" is a stupid term.

It's pretty simple: it's the most efficient way of describing it. Announcers, SportsCenter, etc. use it for the sake of saving a little time. It gets used all the time by people like that, and the term has worked its way into the football vocabulary of many fans. If you don't like it, don't say it. But this is quite possibly the DUMBEST thing to nit-pick.
 
tm3308 said:
It's pretty simple: it's the most efficient way of describing it. Announcers, SportsCenter, etc. use it for the sake of saving a little time. It gets used all the time by people like that, and the term has worked its way into the football vocabulary of many fans. If you don't like it, don't say it. But this is quite possibly the DUMBEST thing to nit-pick.
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right on,
I'd also ask if the OP always says Earned Run Average, Runs Batted In, or percentage of passes that were completed out of those that were attempted?
 
maybe if you pronounced it correctly you wouldn't think its so dumb. its pronounced "Rick six". there, not so dumb now is it?
 
coonhawk said:
I mentioned this on another post, but thought I would dedicate a post to how stupid I think the term "Pick Six" is. Am I alone here or does the popularity of this term over the last two years baffle anyone else? Is saying "interception returned for a TD" that hard to spit out? What lazy SOB invented this term? I know a lot of my hatred for the term itself more than likely comes from the amount of picks we had returned in 2009.

So in spite I propose that in 2011 I will be coining the term "Kick Three" rather then saying we made a field goal this year it will be "Hey did you see how long that kick three was?"
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With the powers vested in me, I hear by authorize you to call it anything you want. Good day.
 
Hawkchop said:
What if there is a fumble and the Defense picks the ball up and returns it for a touchdown, technically the pall was picked up, so I could say pick six, but then one would think interception but it is clearly not....I may not be able to watch football anymore with this on my mind
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That's called 'scoop and score.'
 
Pick six is a stupid term. You know what else is stupid? People who say "OMG" out loud, sudoku, onions, my pepper shaker for always clogging, reality TV shows, cold weather, people who can't tell the difference between "your" and "you're", anybody who thinks Charlie Sheen jokes are funny, anybody who thinks Chuck Norris jokes are funny, onions, old people, sick children, dogs dying, our entire political system, anything related to ESPN, Dave Kaplan, onions, the ridiculously small amount of cheese that comes with Taco Bell nachos, Ed Hardy/Affliction clothing on grown men, Jon Hamm (I have no idea why I hate this man so much), any prime-time show on CBS, onions, Jay Leno, a cold center in a hot ham and cheese from Hardee's, onions, the fact that I hit red lights roughly 98.5% of the time, legroom on an airplane, and thousands of other things.

Pick six seems to be here to stay along with those other horrible things listed above, but it will consume so little of your time hearing it that it really seems silly to complain about it. At least I feel a little better for getting that off my chest.
 
DesertHawk2010 said:
In my opinion thats more like an 10 point swing. FG's aren't automatic but we'd like to think they are. So I'd call it a negative ten
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Missing the field goal would not result in the ensuing kick return TD though. The opponent may eventually punt the ball, or settle for their own field goal, or even turn it over. In 3 of 4 possible scenarios, there is no negative 10.

What LarryStation is getting at with his -4 comment, is pointing out the violent point swing/momentum change that's associated with kick return TD after a made field goal and how its similar to a pick six. It's an immediate answer/score.

Kick returns in Tecmo Bowl are the single most devastating play in the game. They are the quickest and most devastating way to either negate(field goal) or erase(touchdown) a scoring drive by the opponent.
 
GravyJones said:
Pick six is a stupid term. You know what else is stupid? People who say "OMG" out loud, sudoku, onions, my pepper shaker for always clogging, reality TV shows, cold weather, people who can't tell the difference between "your" and "you're", anybody who thinks Charlie Sheen jokes are funny, anybody who thinks Chuck Norris jokes are funny, onions, old people, sick children, dogs dying, our entire political system, anything related to ESPN, Dave Kaplan, onions, the ridiculously small amount of cheese that comes with Taco Bell nachos, Ed Hardy/Affliction clothing on grown men, Jon Hamm (I have no idea why I hate this man so much), any prime-time show on CBS, onions, Jay Leno, a cold center in a hot ham and cheese from Hardee's, onions, the fact that I hit red lights roughly 98.5% of the time, legroom on an airplane, and thousands of other things.

Pick six seems to be here to stay along with those other horrible things listed above, but it will consume so little of your time hearing it that it really seems silly to complain about it. At least I feel a little better for getting that off my
chest.
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OMG. Good Gravy! What's you're problem with onions?
 
I like "pick six". It's short, catchy, and efficient.

The recently coined sports term that I can't stand is from baseball:

"walk off"

When the term was used exclusively for homers, I didn't mind that much. But now that they're using it to describe pretty much any play that ends a game, it's gotten annoying.
 
Grumble grumble . . . damn language evolving and becoming efficient, specialized, and bastardized! Every command I ever done did use in Linux I typed -verbose . . . no contractions here sonny!

Seriously, you got a bone to pick with pick-six? Read some literature from the 1900's to 1920's. Those are some wordy English paragraphs that will make you appreciate our modern vernacular. I have to admit, though, I'm impressed how often Conan of Cimmeria ejaculates in Robert E. Howard's stories.
 
coonhawk said:
I mentioned this on another post, but thought I would dedicate a post to how stupid I think the term "Pick Six" is. Am I alone here or does the popularity of this term over the last two years baffle anyone else? Is saying "interception returned for a TD" that hard to spit out? What lazy SOB invented this term? I know a lot of my hatred for the term itself more than likely comes from the amount of picks we had returned in 2009.

So in spite I propose that in 2011 I will be coining the term "Kick Three" rather then saying we made a field goal this year it will be "Hey did you see how long that kick three was?"
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Why is the abbreviation for June, Jun. You've GOT to be in a hurry!
 
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