![]() Shake's got a gun just like us, so stay up, Sports Guy. Better bite down on that mouthpiece while you're at the scorer's table waiting to go in and check trash-talking Shake N Bake, often disguised as "Rick Reilly," a mild-mannered scribe for a major metropolitan magazine. He keeps insisting it's fun to watch Isiah take the Knicks down the tubes. Isiah Thomas didn't refute it when Worm's uber-trash-talk was brought to him.Įverybody remembers that - especially my colleague and fellow NBA maven the Boston Sports Guy, who has a blind spot on this. Interestingly, nobody remembers this part, maybe because Worm is seen as an outrageous, entertaining, ultimately-harmless minstrel, and no threat to competitive thought processes. Afterward, Dennis Rodman whined that if Bird was black, he'd be just another good player. He coined it in 1987 after his last-second steal and assist beat Detroit in a crucial playoff game at Boston. I give this two-word Shut-Downer to Larry Bird. ![]() This was anti-trash-talk, and it proved that Deion was a classic two-way player. Harmon, following human nature, turned his head to follow the line Deion pointed out before he actually heard Deion. He pointed a finger at a line on the horizon and whispered an inspiration to Harmon: "Man, you need to look up at that scoreboard." Sanders quashed his mood by pointing up to the heavens, from whence cometh his help. After tackling Deion, Harmon dared Neon to fight, hurling insults at him. And it wasn't that close.Įven Neon Deion's anti-trash talk was lights out.ĭeion Sanders, that season's NFL Player of the Year, intercepted a Stan Humphries pass and was tackled, then set-upon in jaw-jacking, smack-talking style by one Ronnie Harmon, a former Iowa running back with a past we won't go into here. well, let's be kind and say it was forty-something to something-in-the-teens. In the fourth quarter of the 1995 Super Bowl, the San Francisco 49ers were putting the finishing touches on a thrashing of the San Diego Chargers. I think you better bite down on that mouthpiece." "I think it's just a matter of time," he yaps. Hence, this Shut-Down Line, suitable anytime your team is winning and the opponent is hurt, and the opponent (or opponent's fan, preferably a good friend to whom you've recently lost money) insists on talking smack while you notice he's flinching from all the kill shots he's taking. Norton's style was no problemo later for George Foreman, but Norton broke Ali's jaw - easier to do when one's mouth is open when it should be closed up tight. Ali was talking instead of fighting, instead of solving that weird crossed-armed peek-a-boo style the body-builder Norton used to keep Ali at bay. It's like when Muhammad Ali got his jaw broken against Ken Norton in San Diego in 1973. Really, how could Chuck Noll, coach of Torpedo Shell, Vampire Lambert and Mean Joe Greene, call any football player part of a criminal element? He acts like he can win without even trying, like you or your team are nothing to be concerned about unless you go criminal-element on him. Instead, this guy acts like the competition is no biggie, like he's in control and can make it look effortless against you, or your team, or your horse. This fact alone should require his concentration, command his respect. ![]() Often, the yakker is being hurt, physically or emotionally (preferably both), as he is doing the talking. Or who is blindly dismissive of you, even though he's engaged in a tough battle where the tide turns back and forth. ![]() This one is used on somebody who trash-talks when he's winning, but complains about roughness when he's losing. It was coined in memory of George Atkinson and Lynn Swann. I got this one from my friend Eddie Santino, Raider fan, resident of Oakland, California. These lines are for the verbal bullies who insist on insulting you, on working your last nerve because they think "it's all just good clean fun," or "it's all entertainment," or "really, it's just a form of self-expression." Yeah. Shut-Down Lines will give all the suckers pause, if not crack open their smug faces. This is how you talk the Anti-Trash Talk. Then this is for you: Sports Greatest Shut-Down Lines. Want to make things right in your own house, at least? In the meantime, since such overkill is unlikely to go away, do you need suitable retorts? Do you need comebacks for all of the trash-talk that goes along with the action in NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL games, as well as in office trash-can hoop and sports talk radio, all the way down to video games with your very own friends? Tom Brady can trash talk all he wants with his two rings.
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