The word "bleachers" comes from the days when most seats in a stadium were shaded, but the cheap seats were not. The wood they were made from would be bleached by the sun. Being cheap seats, the seating wasn't assigned, and was often in the form of benches rather than individual seats. Today the term refers to general admission seating at a sporting event. In baseball the bleachers are usually in the outfield.
Growing up in Michigan in the 60s, we sometimes called tennis shoes "tennies" or gym shoes, as they were reserved for gym class. We were not allowed to wear them to school. Nowadays in central Ohio, many people call them athletic shoes, although years ago the Converse basketball shoes were called hi-tops.
I have found in my Rugby watching experience, the British and Irish tend to have color commentary just not differentiate between the two. To we Americans there is play-by-play commentary, carried out by the announcer and color-commentary. Color-commentary specifically is the extra conversation about statistics, historical records, a players abilities, etc. that they use to fill the low action segments so someone only listening to the game isn't faced with gaps of dead air, it's just present in television coverage too. I have however experienced large gaps of dead air while watching certain rugby team coverage and was glad I was watching not just listening. Love these videos, keep it up Laurence.
We do have color commentary. We just don't call it that. Pretty much every sport has two man commentary one of which being a professional broadcaster and the other being a former player of the sport. The commentator calls the action and the former pro gives analysis of what's happened. The roles probably aren't as distinct as in the US and stats aren't as much a part of British sport as in the US.
@@robfinlay8058 Yeah, that's what I was saying. I just also noted a couple experiences I've had watching rugby when there was no second commentator present for the broadcast.
I think it's hilarious that the British refer to Converse All-Stars as "baseball boots." They were designed for basketball, not baseball. They aren't even suitable for baseball because they don't have spikes on the bottom.
Cleats are not the shoes but rather the spikes screwed or molded to the soles of sports shoes for traction. In the case of baseball, golf or track the cleats are called spikes.
Frank McCurdy In the US, the shoes are often called cleats too. One can say golf shoes, golf cleats, or just cleats. And we have a store called Cleats and Sneaks that sells athletic footwear, among other things.
I was always told a mouthguard is to protect 2 things. one, your teeth, in case of impact they would crack. And two, from biting your tongue in the heat of the moment. Never thought that your gums would need protecting.
There's usually 2 announcers calling a game. The main one is called the "play-by-play announcer". He actually physically calls the game. The other is called the color commentary, he gives more in depth analysis of a play or a player in between the play by play announcers calls. Sometimes there's even 2 color commentators on top of the play by play announcer. Usually the color commentator used to play that sport. Usually the play by play announcer did not, he's usually just a broadcaster. We just distinguish between the 2, where I guess you do not, that's all.
and on bleachers: those cheap benches that don't have backs on them, those are bleachers. In little league or high school that's usually all they have. In college, they could use bleachers or seats or a mixture, depends how big the college is or how nice it is. And in professional sports, they're primarily seats or all seats, but in some stadiums there could be a bleacher section, and usually those are cheaper because they're not very comfortable. So, again it's just that we differentiate things more whereas you just lump them all together, i guess.
We used to also have "sweat shirts" (the top half of a sweat suit, if you aren't wearing the sweat pants with it, sometimes also called a "sweat jacket" if it was the kind with a zipper down the front, especially if it was worn over a regular shirt), but then some time in the nineties the kids started calling them "hoodies". (At that time, it was fashionable for sweat shirts to have hoods on them -- I have never understood why.) "Cleats" are specifically shoes that have cleats on them, i.e., the little bumps or spikes on the underside of the shoe that stick into the ground to prevent the wearer's feat from slipping. Other athletic shoes are not called "cleats", only the ones that have cleats on them. Sports commentators have traditionally worked in pairs: the announcer, and the color commentator. In the days of radio, the announcer just announced what was happening, play-by-play, and the color commentator spiced things up with other comments: jokes, opinions, enthusiasm, odd statistics, and so on -- his job was to make the broadcast more colorful, more interesting, more entertaining. The roles became somewhat confused as sports broadcasting transitioned to television, where the viewer can often see what is happening, so the original play-by-play announcer role is somewhat obviated, leading in many cases to both commentators mostly saying the sorts of things the color commentator would have said in the radio era. But the term "color commentary" was already well established by then, so it stuck around.
It's also the things sticking out from the bottom of a football, golf, baseball, etc. shoe (not boot, boots come above your ankle) that helps you gain traction on turf. Sort of a modified hobnail.
Yup, Laurence, we love to have multiple terms for the same thing--birdie/shuttlecock; soccer, (American) football; shoes, cleats, spikes; coke, pop, soda pop, soda. It's a great way to confuse the rest of the world. : ))) Actually sweat pants are specifically the pants with elastic at the ankles, and with a drawstring at the waist, and they can be teamed up to form a total outfit--a slouchy "ensemble" of sorts. Track suits or warm-up suits are the nylon suits that track and field ('athletics' across the pond) athletes and basketball players take off before starting their sport.
A boxer also wears a mouthguard, alias a mouthpiece. A mouthpiece was once also underworld slang for a lawyer, usually an expensive one hired by the defendant.
We might not use the word "Soccer" now, but we certainly did when I was a child in the 1960s. The word Soccer was frequently used for the game we now call Football.
Cleats describe shoes with long studs on the soles of shoes used to keep our feet firmly on the ground, without slipping. They are usually plastic in football and soccer, and the length of the studs can be changed depending upon how hard it's raining. Baseball and golf typically use metal cleats. They don't run as much. Boots keep our feet dry when we're walking in the snow.
Regarding "winningest," Laurence ... I was a sports copy editor for some prominent American newspapers. Those sports editors pointed out the grammatical side of this ... "He is a winning manager" ... But "He is the winningest manager in football" falls apart when you realize there is no comparative form: "Coach A is 'winninger' than Coach B"??? Absurd!
Just stumbled upon your channel and have been watching video after video. They're all so wonderfully pleasant and fun. You've got yourself a new subscriber, buddy. :)
+Lost in the Pond Please don't take my "yikes" (and the eyeballs emoji) as insult as it was not meant as such. I love, love, love your vids. I work in a doctor's office with an American woman who just married a man who has lived here for some time but is originally from Manchester England. I told her and her husband to check out your channel!
I agree that "winningest" is a stupid word but I stand by cleats. Gym shoes are the sneakers that you reserve especially for gym so that you don't track in dirt and pebbles onto the gym's wooden floor and damage it. So if you are practicing inside, you'd wear gym shoes. If practicing outside on the grass or AstroTurf, you'd wear cleats. Then you'd put on your sneakers to walk home. Americans refer to the person in charge of the team as the team "coach" whereas the British would call that person the team "manager." In Britain, the team coach would be the bus that takes the team to games. We only use the term manager for the person in charge of a baseball team though they might also have people called "base coaches" who give players specific advise about running the bases. This lead to some confusion when American professional football teams started playing exhibition games in Great Britain. The advance team asked the stadium hosting the event to save space in the Press Box for the team coaches.
Great that you researched "birdie" so thoroughly. Pity that you did not do the same for "soccer." The word originated in England in the 1890s as a contraction of "Association Football" with an "er" tagged onto the end.
I thought you were going to discuss phrases like "getting to first base", getting to third base", "hitting a 'homer", "nothin' but net", "TOUCHDOWN!", "oh! That was a three-pointer!", "reading the stitches on a fastball" etc.
American sports broadcasts traditionally have a team of two commentators - the play-by-play announcer and the color commentator. The play-by-play guy tells what's happening on the field, and the color guy relates other information which may or may not be interesting. Cleats are the protrusions on the sole of football and baseball shoes. Golf and track shoes have spikes. The shoes are generally referred to as "cleats" or "spikes" respectively. Although if you're playing baseball and a runner slides into base, scraping your leg with his cleats in the process, it's called "getting spiked".
Sorry, I can't watch or listen. though interested. It was the music background and the seasick feeling watching you go on that ride of sorts. Love you and the good woman who deals with you, Lawrence.
The camera movement didn't make me want to vomit, but your toes...! Vomit, barf, upchuck, puke, spew, blow chunks, ralph, or whatever word you prefer. I'm sure glad I was eating while I watched this. and btw, when I was a kid, my mother called my shoes tennirunners, some sort of weird tennis-running shoe Frankenstein of a word. Cheers!
"Winningest" has a specific definition. It means "won the most games". "Most successful" is a vague term. For example, in college basketball Coach Krzyzewski is the winningest coach with 1091 wins (and counting). However, almost everyone would say that Coach Wooden is the most successful coach. He has only 664 wins, but has 10 championships, twice as many as Coach K, and a higher winning percentage.
Ah, but do you know that in a baseball park, the bleachers are the cheap seats in the outfield, not to be confused with the grandstands, which are along the baselines, and in back of home plate, nor the boxes that are closest to the wall around the field and between the ends of the dugouts. The boxes are the most expensive seats and the really coveted boxes are the ones behind the dugouts.
I'm not at all a sports fan, but I do detest the term "Winningest". What is the deal? It doesn't even sound like proper English. To me, it's akin to saying "Dumberer" or something. Absolutely silly. By the way, you're signing is top notch. The lessons really paid off. ;-)
Lost in the Pond Haha, indeed! Congratulations, "Winningest"! You are crowned the losingest word of all loser words that are actual words (and not something someone made up).
***** Seriously, man? Move on if you take issue with the content, instead of needlessly insulting someone else. So what if he doesn't like some words people use. Do you like every word you hear? Unlikely. So before you throw stones, be sure your house isn't made of glass.
***** You certainly have the right to disagree with him, but to insult him just because his opinions don't align with yours isn't right. That's all I'm saying.
"Gym shoes" isn't just a Chicago thing, though I guess it could be mid-west or great lakes; I grew up with the term in Toledo. You had to change out of your street shoes before you went into the gym - usually a basketball court - so you wouldn't leave black marks on the floor.
Bleachers are an outdoor viewing area, with seats, with no shade or roof; typically one level, often the cheapest seats with the most distant view. In baseball they will be past the outfield wall. You sit there, and you bleach in the hot sun. Bleachers. Simple. Baseball fields are ideally placed so that the batter faces north, that is to say away from the sun. The bleachers are facing the batter - but from far away (beyond the fence) and they are exposed to the direct sun. Which bleaches you. Hence cheap seats. Regular customers ("bleacher bums") have an identity all unto itself, which differs from stadium to stadium but is often the friendliest place there is. Be careful, the opposite might be true. You will figure this out within minutes.
Really enjoy the site. Re: color commentary. Usually in an announcing team there's the main (#1) announcer who does most of the talking or leads to broadcast. The #2 person is the color comnentator, who will chime in after a play to add "color"--e.g. give expert insight, explain the rules, etc. Usually the #1 announcer is just a broadcaster with no proferrionsl sport experience. Hence, the color commentator, who is usually ex professional player of whatever sport is being shown. I think in the US we like to specifically call out our experts or show off our ex players. But at the same time still relegate them as side kicks. Go figure.
Cleats have to have a more generic term over here, I think, because they're used for more than just one sport. There are soccer cleats, baseball cleats, football cleats, and golf cleats. And maybe others, too.
+Lost in the Pond What are the sharp things embedded into the bottom of the football boots called in Britain? In the U.S., they are also called cleats, which is how the thing got the name. 😊
You and I must speak about lack of athletic ability. I tried. I hurt myself or someone hurt me every time. I went out for basketball. Jammed my fingers. That’s a big ouch. Tennis in college, I pulled my hamstring and I couldn’t walk upright for two months at least. Every time I tried organized sports, I injured myself. Even gymnastics. I fell off the balance beam. I wonder why I did not break my whole body. I’ve fallen off a horse, but in my defense, I was two years old. My brother was holding the reins of my cousin’s two year old filly. It was for a family picture while we were visiting my grandparents farm. Someone put me in the saddle. Lee let go of the reins. The horse took off. I held on to the pommel for a few yards. I fell off halfway down my grandparents’ circular gravel drive. I say gravel because had it been concrete I might not be here. It knocked me out. I’m ok. I did not break anything then either. I swear my brother tried to kill me. He was nine. Anyway, we must discuss sports injuries sometime!
jej3451 a british girl I once knew said that british people have few things they get serious about and "footballing" is one of them. pure insanity if you ask me but I'm American so obviously I wouldn't understand even though I love soccer/football I love the game not the word
Frank Bowne the last time I heard a Brit refer to the sport as soccer was yesterday when Martin Brundle did it before the start of the 2018 Canadian Grand Prix
How 'bout, "If you want to call it soccer, go play in the traffic!" Ewwww! Are your strange toenails why you don't drive?? An alternative to "The gods" is the "nosebleed section". Also, bleachers are used from Jr. High/Middle School up through college/university. Mouth guards are also used somewhat in basketball.
I was watching Euro 2020 and a bit of the Gold Cup and said to my wife....are American commentators taught to talk incessantly over action? Just verbal diarrhea.
Sneakers is the one word that seems so strange to me. When i first heard the term, it conjured up an image of people sneaking around in soft, foam like shoes, tip toeing around, sneaking up behind people, engaging in some shady activity where the use of regular shoes (with their loud disdainful clattering), simply wouldn't do. Yoga pants too?.....how strange!. That was another term I stumbled across before figuring out that pants in america actually meant trousers. Again, it's the mental image burnt into my brain - people stretching in special y fronts, arms out stretched, pants pulled up WAY to high, bending at the knees and squatting up and down..ugh. Back home we are sub consciously absorbing the american vernacular. It's creeping into the english/british language rather quickly, even words like "too" instead of "as well" or "and all" as become a popular term. It's interesting to note that, Britian is the only country that uses the word "glass" as a verb. If americans visited the middle of england (or perhaps anywhere in england that wasn't london) they would think that we evolved from a special type of neolithic tribe . Aup me duck, what yer bin on wee?. A tell thee summat love, ya need to ge'ron wee what yer wore on about, cus tha dunt know now't. p.s...Winter is finally here and it's gerrin pretty code, although i doubt it's as cold as the u.s. Nice video man!. You should get your wife on camera too, you both bounce off each other so well.
About singing: don't give up your day job...on soccer, I thought you kicked with the side of your foot? BTW New Agatha Christie novel, Death By Shuttlecock, sounds catchy...also, you should be glad we us the term cleats...at one time it was caulks, then spikes, cleats began when the woosies who couldn't take the sight of blood took over.
Honestly, the soccer vs football thing is the most annoying thing about Brits. They invented soccer, they named it soccer, they changed the name to football and then get so freaking annoyed, indignant and up on their high horse (we invented it therefore we are right), just because everyone else didn't decide to randomly change the name like they did. It would be like if Sean Combs snapped at people if they called out Puff Daddy, P Diddy etc while he walked down the street. PS, I love your channel and you and your wife are really cute, but the soccer thing . . . . ugg!
Its an urban myth that football was ever generally referred to nationally as "soccer" in the UK despite the so called American historians telling us it was because it was a shortened version of "association football".It just wasnt. Another thing is Americans refering to "offside" as "offsides" !!!!! Unreal!
sooperhooper It's not just American historians. It's honest historians from the UK as well. Some website I saw had a collection of photos from the old days where soccer appeared on signs and adverts. There were a lot of them. I read - possibly in the Guardian - that a fairly recent poll showed that most young people in the UK believe that Americans invented the term. I have a feeling that if Americans didn't call it soccer, Brits would still be using the word themselves. Kinda like the way many Brits seem to think Americans invented the ize suffix, so they will only use ise... even though ize is in fact a British thing and still perfectly correct in British English.
I think its possible that a hundred years or so ago that some people in the UK called football "soccer" but in my opinion,it was never universally called soccer across the entire UK. I also dont think anyone in the UK would ever use the term "soccer" no matter what it was called in the USA. I am 52 years old and have been a fan and season ticket holder all my life and I have NEVER heard anyone call it "soccer"in the UK. I know the USA already has football so they can`t have two sports with the same name so its understandable to call it soccer.
lol walmart... don't forget the pjs! So mate do you follow any yanky teams? Or any from Chicago, specifically? Here in St Louis we use to have the Rams "football" team now thats nadda, they don't exist anymore. Moving to Illinois next year, still in the midwest, so probably have to check out the Bears. Be interested to hear from ya. Cheers son :)
I am not a serious sports fan. My husband John watches NFL games and I haven’t heard the word winningest. It’s not a real word. It’s quicker than saying most successful. John has been following UK football for several years now.
The word soccer was actually first used by a Brit . I think you pointed this out in a later video. Whoever came up with the word football for soccer messed it up
I suppose there's no shame in coming second to the USA, and even China for that matter, considering how you dwarf us in population. Plus i'm fairly sure Michael Phelps is some kind of genetically engineered amphibious superhuman, so it's basically impossible to compete with you guys in the pool. Congratulations to you.
The Announcer calls the game, describing what is happening. The Color Commentator fills in the "dead air" between plays, by pointing out facts or statistics about a player, or the coach, or the team, or the fans, or the mascot, or other inane drivel.
"Shuttlecock" comes from the combination of "shuttle", to hit back and forth, and "cock", a male chicken...because of the feathers. So calling a "back and forth chicken" a "bird" or "birdie" isn't that far fetched.
Never heard the term winingest, until now. Nor the Greco wrestling whatever. Gym shoes is a term used in WA, but it's any type of shoe one wears exclusively in a gymnasium, never outside. Color commentary? Another one I've heard.
1 why is it commentator instead of comentor? 2 making a face is a sport of sorts in your homeland.. Gurning contests are a rural English tradition. They are held regularly in some villages, with contestants traditionally framing their faces through a horse collar - known as "gurnin' through a braffin".[3] The World Gurning Championship takes place annually at the Egremont Crab Fair.[4] The fair dates back to 1267, when King Henry III granted it a Royal Charter.[5] The origins of the gurning competition itself are unclear, and it may not be so old, although it was described as an ancient tradition by local newspaper The Cumberland Paquet in 1852.[6] Those with the greatest gurn capabilities are often those with no teeth, as this provides greater room to move the jaw further up. In some cases, the elderly or otherwise toothless can be capable of gurns covering the entire nose.
How about the French term crême de la crême instead of winningest in the U.K. Ha, try Dodge Ball...that will kill ya. In fact some schools have banned it. Just Dodge the stinking balls people🤣🤣
Cleats are on the sole of a cycling shoe. "Winningest" as a word does NOT exist. A "birdie" is some daft shot in Golf. Four forks ache mate, is the MUSAK essential over speech? PILLOCK! "Bleach green". - Oh look it up. NAY "Greco" lad. A Sneaker = one who sneaks. Sweat pants = "Spot reducing garments". = "Tracky bottoms" Y'mean a "Gum shield"? An "announcer" announces. a commentator "Comments". Weird people. Lounge pant, they're nobbut Breeks.
Were you two drunk when you made this video? I really love your videos, especially where the Brits don't know what Americans are talking about with a certain word or phrase, and I'm American so I don't know what you Brits are saying half the time when you're in your slang or talking sports. I also love your music, you composed, you played, but on half this video I couldn't hear what your wife was saying off camera... can you tone it down or just put that lovely wife on screen and you two do a dialog with the music way way back in the background.. please? Anyway, another fun video to watch, don't get mad at your wife or mad at your wonderful new nation home, America, for not doing or saying things the British way. By the way, American "football" shoes are NOT called "cleats" but simply "boots" that have "cleats" on them to help the player run and move around on the field. Golfers' shoes in America's pro golf also have "cleats", which for both types of shoes are the metal little spikes in them, not the whole shoe or boot. "Sneakers" are called "sneakers" because they allow one to walk around undetected, with rubber soles, so you cannot hear one coming up from behind you, and "trainers" sound like something a 3-year-old wears when he's first out walking in the yard or garden. "Tennis shoes" .. I grew up 50 years ago hearing that, but "sneakers" (tennis shoes), are canvass-topped rubber soled bottom shoes one wears in playing tennis or other sports just because they feel good and give flexibility for various sports played in a gym or on a tennis court. They are called "Nike's" now......the predominant brand of shoe one wears in the USA when doing individual sports both inside and outside when one doesn't need a "boot" for the sport. Sone "Nike's" (pronounced "NY- keez" are even leather topped now, okay for going outside in a rain storm. And last Your toe looks horrible, by the way, just gross, showing that must have made lots of American foot fetish guys hot for you.....just saying.....love your videos, just so you know I'm not disrespecting you at all.
"Home run"? "Touch down"? "Field goal"? Some day, please explain cricket. I suppose one cannot say "batter up" or "on deck" in cricket. How about, "Wow, that just came out of left field!"?
The word "bleachers" comes from the days when most seats in a stadium were shaded, but the cheap seats were not. The wood they were made from would be bleached by the sun. Being cheap seats, the seating wasn't assigned, and was often in the form of benches rather than individual seats. Today the term refers to general admission seating at a sporting event. In baseball the bleachers are usually in the outfield.
Yes. Bleachers have no chair back.
Growing up in Michigan in the 60s, we sometimes called tennis shoes "tennies" or gym shoes, as they were reserved for gym class. We were not allowed to wear them to school. Nowadays in central Ohio, many people call them athletic shoes, although years ago the Converse basketball shoes were called hi-tops.
I have found in my Rugby watching experience, the British and Irish tend to have color commentary just not differentiate between the two. To we Americans there is play-by-play commentary, carried out by the announcer and color-commentary. Color-commentary specifically is the extra conversation about statistics, historical records, a players abilities, etc. that they use to fill the low action segments so someone only listening to the game isn't faced with gaps of dead air, it's just present in television coverage too. I have however experienced large gaps of dead air while watching certain rugby team coverage and was glad I was watching not just listening. Love these videos, keep it up Laurence.
We do have color commentary. We just don't call it that. Pretty much every sport has two man commentary one of which being a professional broadcaster and the other being a former player of the sport. The commentator calls the action and the former pro gives analysis of what's happened. The roles probably aren't as distinct as in the US and stats aren't as much a part of British sport as in the US.
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Yeah, that's what I was saying. I just also noted a couple experiences I've had watching rugby when there was no second commentator present for the broadcast.
I think it's hilarious that the British refer to Converse All-Stars as "baseball boots." They were designed for basketball, not baseball. They aren't even suitable for baseball because they don't have spikes on the bottom.
Cleats are not the shoes but rather the spikes screwed or molded to the soles of sports shoes for traction. In the case of baseball, golf or track the cleats are called spikes.
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In the US, the shoes are often called cleats too. One can say golf shoes, golf cleats, or just cleats. And we have a store called Cleats and Sneaks that sells athletic footwear, among other things.
I was always told a mouthguard is to protect 2 things. one, your teeth, in case of impact they would crack. And two, from biting your tongue in the heat of the moment. Never thought that your gums would need protecting.
There's usually 2 announcers calling a game. The main one is called the "play-by-play announcer". He actually physically calls the game. The other is called the color commentary, he gives more in depth analysis of a play or a player in between the play by play announcers calls. Sometimes there's even 2 color commentators on top of the play by play announcer. Usually the color commentator used to play that sport. Usually the play by play announcer did not, he's usually just a broadcaster. We just distinguish between the 2, where I guess you do not, that's all.
and on bleachers: those cheap benches that don't have backs on them, those are bleachers. In little league or high school that's usually all they have. In college, they could use bleachers or seats or a mixture, depends how big the college is or how nice it is. And in professional sports, they're primarily seats or all seats, but in some stadiums there could be a bleacher section, and usually those are cheaper because they're not very comfortable. So, again it's just that we differentiate things more whereas you just lump them all together, i guess.
Evan: I bet Suzyn Waldman was a great Yankees baseball player.
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From what I understand it was an Englishman who coined the term soccer it wasn't invented in the us
We used to also have "sweat shirts" (the top half of a sweat suit, if you aren't wearing the sweat pants with it, sometimes also called a "sweat jacket" if it was the kind with a zipper down the front, especially if it was worn over a regular shirt), but then some time in the nineties the kids started calling them "hoodies". (At that time, it was fashionable for sweat shirts to have hoods on them -- I have never understood why.)
"Cleats" are specifically shoes that have cleats on them, i.e., the little bumps or spikes on the underside of the shoe that stick into the ground to prevent the wearer's feat from slipping. Other athletic shoes are not called "cleats", only the ones that have cleats on them.
Sports commentators have traditionally worked in pairs: the announcer, and the color commentator. In the days of radio, the announcer just announced what was happening, play-by-play, and the color commentator spiced things up with other comments: jokes, opinions, enthusiasm, odd statistics, and so on -- his job was to make the broadcast more colorful, more interesting, more entertaining. The roles became somewhat confused as sports broadcasting transitioned to television, where the viewer can often see what is happening, so the original play-by-play announcer role is somewhat obviated, leading in many cases to both commentators mostly saying the sorts of things the color commentator would have said in the radio era. But the term "color commentary" was already well established by then, so it stuck around.
Speaking of sports, the USA and the UK have won the majority of gold medals at the Olympics so far.
"Winningest" is used as an objective term to mean the most wins statistically. It's not used subjectively.
A cleat is also the name for those things on the end of a pier or on a boat that you tie the boat to the dock
It's also the things sticking out from the bottom of a football, golf, baseball, etc. shoe (not boot, boots come above your ankle) that helps you gain traction on turf. Sort of a modified hobnail.
Yup, Laurence, we love to have multiple terms for the same thing--birdie/shuttlecock; soccer, (American) football; shoes, cleats, spikes; coke, pop, soda pop, soda. It's a great way to confuse the rest of the world. : )))
Actually sweat pants are specifically the pants with elastic at the ankles, and with a drawstring at the waist, and they can be teamed up to form a total outfit--a slouchy "ensemble" of sorts.
Track suits or warm-up suits are the nylon suits that track and field ('athletics' across the pond) athletes and basketball players take off before starting their sport.
A boxer also wears a mouthguard, alias a mouthpiece.
A mouthpiece was once also underworld slang for a lawyer, usually an expensive one hired by the defendant.
6:01 not getting ANGRY but, getting CHARGED!! LOL :)
Soccer is actually UK English . I believe admittedly in a very roundabout way it derives from the word association. As in Association Football.
Association Football -> Assoccer -> Soccer
I always thought it sounds British
We might not use the word "Soccer" now, but we certainly did when I was a child in the 1960s. The word Soccer was frequently used for the game we now call Football.
The term track suit reminds me of those matching velour ones we wore in the 70's, haha.
Cleats describe shoes with long studs on the soles of shoes used to keep our feet firmly on the ground, without slipping. They are usually plastic in football and soccer, and the length of the studs can be changed depending upon how hard it's raining. Baseball and golf typically use metal cleats. They don't run as much. Boots keep our feet dry when we're walking in the snow.
I love listening to you sing!!
Regarding "winningest," Laurence ... I was a sports copy editor for some prominent American newspapers. Those sports editors pointed out the grammatical side of this ... "He is a winning manager" ... But "He is the winningest manager in football" falls apart when you realize there is no comparative form: "Coach A is 'winninger' than Coach B"??? Absurd!
Just stumbled upon your channel and have been watching video after video. They're all so wonderfully pleasant and fun.
You've got yourself a new subscriber, buddy. :)
Cheers, Josh. And welcome.
Go Braves!!!
Yikes!! Those toenails....👀
Yep. I used to tell people they were bitten off by a tiger.
+Lost in the Pond Please don't take my "yikes" (and the eyeballs emoji) as insult as it was not meant as such. I love, love, love your vids. I work in a doctor's office with an American woman who just married a man who has lived here for some time but is originally from Manchester England. I told her and her husband to check out your channel!
"Shuttlecock" just sounds _filthy._ Like, you might give that name to NASA porn from the 1980s, but...that thing is, was, and always will be a birdie.
I really enjoy your commentary! You need to being your wife into the videos as well!
Ha we do say gym shoes! Nobody down here in FL knows what I'm talking about.
Do you still use any Olde English like as in Shakespeare in the U.K. today at all?
I agree that "winningest" is a stupid word but I stand by cleats. Gym shoes are the sneakers that you reserve especially for gym so that you don't track in dirt and pebbles onto the gym's wooden floor and damage it. So if you are practicing inside, you'd wear gym shoes.
If practicing outside on the grass or AstroTurf, you'd wear cleats. Then you'd put on your sneakers to walk home. Americans refer to the person in charge of the team as the team "coach" whereas the British would call that person the team "manager." In Britain, the team coach would be the bus that takes the team to games. We only use the term manager for the person in charge of a baseball team though they might also have people called "base coaches" who give players specific advise about running the bases. This lead to some confusion when American professional football teams started playing exhibition games in Great Britain. The advance team asked the stadium hosting the event to save space in the Press Box for the team coaches.
the suits made of parachute material in the 80s was called shell suits here in the uk
Great that you researched "birdie" so thoroughly. Pity that you did not do the same for "soccer." The word originated in England in the 1890s as a contraction of "Association Football" with an "er" tagged onto the end.
I thought you were going to discuss phrases like "getting to first base", getting to third base", "hitting a 'homer", "nothin' but net", "TOUCHDOWN!", "oh! That was a three-pointer!", "reading the stitches on a fastball" etc.
American sports broadcasts traditionally have a team of two commentators - the play-by-play announcer and the color commentator. The play-by-play guy tells what's happening on the field, and the color guy relates other information which may or may not be interesting.
Cleats are the protrusions on the sole of football and baseball shoes. Golf and track shoes have spikes. The shoes are generally referred to as "cleats" or "spikes" respectively. Although if you're playing baseball and a runner slides into base, scraping your leg with his cleats in the process, it's called "getting spiked".
We use the term "gym shoes" here in Indiana but it is just for school..My son needed gym shoes for school..:) shoes he only uses for gym class..
My wife (who is from Indiana) was telling me that on the extended version of this video.
Sorry, I can't watch or listen. though interested. It was the music background and the seasick feeling watching you go on that ride of sorts. Love you and the good woman who deals with you, Lawrence.
The camera movement didn't make me want to vomit, but your toes...! Vomit, barf, upchuck, puke, spew, blow chunks, ralph, or whatever word you prefer. I'm sure glad I was eating while I watched this. and btw, when I was a kid, my mother called my shoes tennirunners, some sort of weird tennis-running shoe Frankenstein of a word. Cheers!
Be nice, at least he was wearing pants...
American invented Potato chips, and the United Kindom insist in calling them "Crisp".
I'd watch 10 minutes of your kitty just wandering around.
"Winningest" has a specific definition. It means "won the most games". "Most successful" is a vague term. For example, in college basketball Coach Krzyzewski is the winningest coach with 1091 wins (and counting). However, almost everyone would say that Coach Wooden is the most successful coach. He has only 664 wins, but has 10 championships, twice as many as Coach K, and a higher winning percentage.
The first time I heard "winningest" it sounded bizarre, but I've since warmed to it. It's actually a fun word.
Ah, but do you know that in a baseball park, the bleachers are the cheap seats in the outfield, not to be confused with the grandstands, which are along the baselines, and in back of home plate, nor the boxes that are closest to the wall around the field and between the ends of the dugouts. The boxes are the most expensive seats and the really coveted boxes are the ones behind the dugouts.
In America track suits are different than sweat pants.
I'm not at all a sports fan, but I do detest the term "Winningest". What is the deal? It doesn't even sound like proper English. To me, it's akin to saying "Dumberer" or something. Absolutely silly.
By the way, you're signing is top notch. The lessons really paid off. ;-)
Haha! Well, thank you. And yes, "winningest" is the worst. It's the loser of words. It's the losingest word.
Lost in the Pond Haha, indeed! Congratulations, "Winningest"! You are crowned the losingest word of all loser words that are actual words (and not something someone made up).
Before you judge me, make sure you're perfect.
***** Seriously, man? Move on if you take issue with the content, instead of needlessly insulting someone else. So what if he doesn't like some words people use. Do you like every word you hear? Unlikely. So before you throw stones, be sure your house isn't made of glass.
***** You certainly have the right to disagree with him, but to insult him just because his opinions don't align with yours isn't right. That's all I'm saying.
There seems to be a tracksuit/trakkie/shellsuit confusion going on...
Not only did the Brits come up with the game but they also coined the word "soccer" for the game.
"Gym shoes" isn't just a Chicago thing, though I guess it could be mid-west or great lakes; I grew up with the term in Toledo. You had to change out of your street shoes before you went into the gym - usually a basketball court - so you wouldn't leave black marks on the floor.
Did you know there is actually a very lively Cricket club in Forest Park in St Louis?
lol @ "Don't try and defeat me with logic." Also, yes, those toes are gross.
Bleachers are the seats outside the grandstands in the open air where the sun might bleach your hair
Bleachers are an outdoor viewing area, with seats, with no shade or roof; typically one level, often the cheapest seats with the most distant view. In baseball they will be past the outfield wall. You sit there, and you bleach in the hot sun. Bleachers. Simple.
Baseball fields are ideally placed so that the batter faces north, that is to say away from the sun. The bleachers are facing the batter - but from far away (beyond the fence) and they are exposed to the direct sun. Which bleaches you. Hence cheap seats.
Regular customers ("bleacher bums") have an identity all unto itself, which differs from stadium to stadium but is often the friendliest place there is. Be careful, the opposite might be true. You will figure this out within minutes.
You said "UA-cam" instead of Youchube as a proper Brit would say! Lol
Really enjoy the site. Re: color commentary. Usually in an announcing team there's the main (#1) announcer who does most of the talking or leads to broadcast. The #2 person is the color comnentator, who will chime in after a play to add "color"--e.g. give expert insight, explain the rules, etc. Usually the #1 announcer is just a broadcaster with no proferrionsl sport experience. Hence, the color commentator, who is usually ex professional player of whatever sport is being shown. I think in the US we like to specifically call out our experts or show off our ex players. But at the same time still relegate them as side kicks. Go figure.
Cleats have to have a more generic term over here, I think, because they're used for more than just one sport. There are soccer cleats, baseball cleats, football cleats, and golf cleats. And maybe others, too.
+Lost in the Pond What are the sharp things embedded into the bottom of the football boots called in Britain? In the U.S., they are also called cleats, which is how the thing got the name. 😊
We call them studs.
You and I must speak about lack of athletic ability. I tried. I hurt myself or someone hurt me every time. I went out for basketball. Jammed my fingers. That’s a big ouch. Tennis in college, I pulled my hamstring and I couldn’t walk upright for two months at least. Every time I tried organized sports, I injured myself. Even gymnastics. I fell off the balance beam. I wonder why I did not break my whole body. I’ve fallen off a horse, but in my defense, I was two years old. My brother was holding the reins of my cousin’s two year old filly. It was for a family picture while we were visiting my grandparents farm. Someone put me in the saddle. Lee let go of the reins. The horse took off. I held on to the pommel for a few yards. I fell off halfway down my grandparents’ circular gravel drive. I say gravel because had it been concrete I might not be here. It knocked me out. I’m ok. I did not break anything then either. I swear my brother tried to kill me. He was nine. Anyway, we must discuss sports injuries sometime!
Britain invented the sport, but they also invented the term "soccer". It's kind of strange that they would take offense when people use the word.
jej3451 a british girl I once knew said that british people have few things they get serious about and "footballing" is one of them. pure insanity if you ask me but I'm American so obviously I wouldn't understand even though I love soccer/football I love the game not the word
jej3451 they don't call it England anymore either.
Frank Bowne the last time I heard a Brit refer to the sport as soccer was yesterday when Martin Brundle did it before the start of the 2018 Canadian Grand Prix
it was called soccer when we invented
How 'bout, "If you want to call it soccer, go play in the traffic!"
Ewwww! Are your strange toenails why you don't drive??
An alternative to "The gods" is the "nosebleed section". Also, bleachers are used from Jr. High/Middle School up through college/university.
Mouth guards are also used somewhat in basketball.
lol I just broke my pinkie toe playing soccer barefoot with my kiddos. Guess I asked for it.
Brandi: Are you a woman? If so, you know how you should wear shoes to keep your feet clean.
eddyvideostar eeh nothing that a little water & soap won't wash off.
I finally agree with you. "Winningist" is stupid. And not a real word.
Your wife needs to use a mike...I can barely hear her! Loving your videos!
Omg! Those toes! Ooh, Laurence
You have a very nice voice.
I was watching Euro 2020 and a bit of the Gold Cup and said to my wife....are American commentators taught to talk incessantly over action?
Just verbal diarrhea.
"Most victorious" as well.
cleats sounds like american slang for the clap
Haha!
cameron smith cleats - how on earth did they come up with that oral perversion?
Sneakers is the one word that seems so strange to me. When i first heard the term, it conjured up an image of people sneaking around in soft, foam like shoes, tip toeing around, sneaking up behind people, engaging in some shady activity where the use of regular shoes (with their loud disdainful clattering), simply wouldn't do. Yoga pants too?.....how strange!. That was another term I stumbled across before figuring out that pants in america actually meant trousers. Again, it's the mental image burnt into my brain - people stretching in special y fronts, arms out stretched, pants pulled up WAY to high, bending at the knees and squatting up and down..ugh. Back home we are sub consciously absorbing the american vernacular. It's creeping into the english/british language rather quickly, even words like "too" instead of "as well" or "and all" as become a popular term. It's interesting to note that, Britian is the only country that uses the word "glass" as a verb.
If americans visited the middle of england (or perhaps anywhere in england that wasn't london) they would think that we evolved from a special type of neolithic tribe . Aup me duck, what yer bin on wee?. A tell thee summat love, ya need to ge'ron wee what yer wore on about, cus tha dunt know now't. p.s...Winter is finally here and it's gerrin pretty code, although i doubt it's as cold as the u.s. Nice video man!. You should get your wife on camera too, you both bounce off each other so well.
About singing: don't give up your day job...on soccer, I thought you kicked with the side of your foot? BTW New Agatha Christie novel, Death By Shuttlecock, sounds catchy...also, you should be glad we us the term cleats...at one time it was caulks, then spikes, cleats began when the woosies who couldn't take the sight of blood took over.
Cleats were called Studs in the UK.
Ahhh yes, my favourite club is Grimsby Borough Soccer Club.
Showing your toes is a cancellable offense.
Honestly, the soccer vs football thing is the most annoying thing about Brits. They invented soccer, they named it soccer, they changed the name to football and then get so freaking annoyed, indignant and up on their high horse (we invented it therefore we are right), just because everyone else didn't decide to randomly change the name like they did. It would be like if Sean Combs snapped at people if they called out Puff Daddy, P Diddy etc while he walked down the street.
PS, I love your channel and you and your wife are really cute, but the soccer thing . . . . ugg!
Agreed.
Its an urban myth that football was ever generally referred to nationally as "soccer" in the UK despite the so called American historians telling us it was because it was a shortened version of "association football".It just wasnt.
Another thing is Americans refering to "offside" as "offsides" !!!!! Unreal!
sooperhooper
It's not just American historians. It's honest historians from the UK as well. Some website I saw had a collection of photos from the old days where soccer appeared on signs and adverts. There were a lot of them. I read - possibly in the Guardian - that a fairly recent poll showed that most young people in the UK believe that Americans invented the term. I have a feeling that if Americans didn't call it soccer, Brits would still be using the word themselves. Kinda like the way many Brits seem to think Americans invented the ize suffix, so they will only use ise... even though ize is in fact a British thing and still perfectly correct in British English.
I think its possible that a hundred years or so ago that some people in the UK called football "soccer" but in my opinion,it was never universally called soccer across the entire UK.
I also dont think anyone in the UK would ever use the term "soccer" no matter what it was called in the USA.
I am 52 years old and have been a fan and season ticket holder all my life and I have NEVER heard anyone call it "soccer"in the UK.
I know the USA already has football so they can`t have two sports with the same name so its understandable to call it soccer.
It was always called football officially, the name didn't change.
His wife kind of sounds a lot like Donna from “That 70s Show”
Announcers? Wow! That’s a reach way, way back a few decades. They’ve been “sportscasters” for quite some time now.
Winningest is awesome !
Nice singing voice!
lol walmart... don't forget the pjs! So mate do you follow any yanky teams? Or any from Chicago, specifically? Here in St Louis we use to have the Rams "football" team now thats nadda, they don't exist anymore. Moving to Illinois next year, still in the midwest, so probably have to check out the Bears. Be interested to hear from ya. Cheers son :)
I'm sort of an honorary Cubs fan, but only because of Back to the Future 2.
+Lost in the Pond Love that film. Well all 80s movies for that matter. So no NFL? You do know St Louis Cardinals are a rival right? ;)
I did not know that. I will say this, though: the only baseball game I've ever been to was at Busch Stadium. I saw the Cardinals play!
In Texas, it's tenny shoes.
I am not a serious sports fan. My husband John watches NFL games and I haven’t heard the word winningest. It’s not a real word. It’s quicker than saying most successful. John has been following UK football for several years now.
The spice girls...🤯✌🏼
The only example of using soccer in england is the kids football club David Campbell Soccer
Sweat pants, sweats...warmup suits or warmups....mouth guards in basketball too...protect your teeth from elbows...
The word soccer was actually first used by a Brit . I think you pointed this out in a later video. Whoever came up with the word football for soccer messed it up
I know this a really really old video but they are called gym shoes in Ohio as well
The U.S. better watch out. We're coming for them in the medals table.
Love you guys, but you are still 35 medals down..:)
I suppose there's no shame in coming second to the USA, and even China for that matter, considering how you dwarf us in population. Plus i'm fairly sure Michael Phelps is some kind of genetically engineered amphibious superhuman, so it's basically impossible to compete with you guys in the pool. Congratulations to you.
:) same to you..glad to see you right up there with us..
Is your cat a Russian Blue
The Announcer calls the game, describing what is happening. The Color Commentator fills in the "dead air" between plays, by pointing out facts or statistics about a player, or the coach, or the team, or the fans, or the mascot, or other inane drivel.
we call football/rugby boots togs in wales
"Shuttlecock" comes from the combination of "shuttle", to hit back and forth, and "cock", a male chicken...because of the feathers. So calling a "back and forth chicken" a "bird" or "birdie" isn't that far fetched.
It's also funny that the uk used to call football soccer
I thought I heard that you Brits also had invented the word SOCCER back in the day. I may have to look that sure. 4:42
I'm British and I say mouthguard
Never heard the term winingest, until now.
Nor the Greco wrestling whatever.
Gym shoes is a term used in WA, but it's any type of shoe one wears exclusively in a gymnasium, never outside.
Color commentary? Another one I've heard.
1 why is it commentator instead of comentor?
2 making a face is a sport of sorts in your homeland.. Gurning contests are a rural English tradition. They are held regularly in some villages, with contestants traditionally framing their faces through a horse collar - known as "gurnin' through a braffin".[3]
The World Gurning Championship takes place annually at the Egremont Crab Fair.[4] The fair dates back to 1267, when King Henry III granted it a Royal Charter.[5] The origins of the gurning competition itself are unclear, and it may not be so old, although it was described as an ancient tradition by local newspaper The Cumberland Paquet in 1852.[6]
Those with the greatest gurn capabilities are often those with no teeth, as this provides greater room to move the jaw further up. In some cases, the elderly or otherwise toothless can be capable of gurns covering the entire nose.
How about the French term crême de la crême instead of winningest in the U.K.
Ha, try Dodge Ball...that will kill ya. In fact some schools have banned it. Just Dodge the stinking balls people🤣🤣
I didn't hear the term winningest until I got to college and started paying attention to college sports there. It's so stupid and cringey.
Cleats are on the sole of a cycling shoe.
"Winningest" as a word does NOT exist.
A "birdie" is some daft shot in Golf.
Four forks ache mate, is the MUSAK essential over speech? PILLOCK!
"Bleach green". - Oh look it up.
NAY "Greco" lad.
A Sneaker = one who sneaks.
Sweat pants = "Spot reducing garments". = "Tracky bottoms"
Y'mean a "Gum shield"?
An "announcer" announces. a commentator "Comments".
Weird people.
Lounge pant, they're nobbut Breeks.
Were you two drunk when you made this video? I really love your videos, especially where the Brits don't know what Americans are talking about with a certain word or phrase, and I'm American so I don't know what you Brits are saying half the time when you're in your slang or talking sports. I also love your music, you composed, you played, but on half this video I couldn't hear what your wife was saying off camera... can you tone it down or just put that lovely wife on screen and you two do a dialog with the music way way back in the background.. please? Anyway, another fun video to watch, don't get mad at your wife or mad at your wonderful new nation home, America, for not doing or saying things the British way. By the way, American "football" shoes are NOT called "cleats" but simply "boots" that have "cleats" on them to help the player run and move around on the field. Golfers' shoes in America's pro golf also have "cleats", which for both types of shoes are the metal little spikes in them, not the whole shoe or boot. "Sneakers" are called "sneakers" because they allow one to walk around undetected, with rubber soles, so you cannot hear one coming up from behind you, and "trainers" sound like something a 3-year-old wears when he's first out walking in the yard or garden. "Tennis shoes" .. I grew up 50 years ago hearing that, but "sneakers" (tennis shoes), are canvass-topped rubber soled bottom shoes one wears in playing tennis or other sports just because they feel good and give flexibility for various sports played in a gym or on a tennis court. They are called "Nike's" now......the predominant brand of shoe one wears in the USA when doing individual sports both inside and outside when one doesn't need a "boot" for the sport. Sone "Nike's" (pronounced "NY- keez" are even leather topped now, okay for going outside in a rain storm. And last Your toe looks horrible, by the way, just gross, showing that must have made lots of American foot fetish guys hot for you.....just saying.....love your videos, just so you know I'm not disrespecting you at all.
"Home run"? "Touch down"? "Field goal"? Some day, please explain cricket. I suppose one cannot say "batter up" or "on deck" in cricket. How about, "Wow, that just came out of left field!"?
What are 'lounge pants', Laurence? Clearly, they are trousers, for lounging in (like a lizard?)..
The different spellimgs probably go back to Theodore Roosevelt, who tried make English spelling phonetic. He did not comp,etely succeed.
The British called it Soccer first then dropped it for some reason...
Here's a previous video on that very subject: ua-cam.com/video/KeHJIh6V5Og/v-deo.html