Is it just me or does anyone else loathe worn-out sports clichés? For instance, with each new NFL season, you will read about cornerbacks who live alone on an island or about someone being thrown under a bus.
Can someone please create some new material? It's time to locate some new material and shake up the lingo.
Here are some unusual suspects:

• "He can stretch the field" How does anyone stretch a 100 yard football field? It's not like the field is made of Silly Putty.
  
• Is it possible for a hockey fan or announcer to say the word goal without saying "goooooooooaal?" Now that's annoying.
  
• "Sports heroes" Really? Soldiers who died in WWII were heroes.
  So were the police officers and fireman who died on 9/11/01.
  If athletes are heroes, how do they compare to deceased soldiers, policemen and firemen? Athletes receive millions to play a kid's game.
  Call them athletes, not heroes.
  
• "He's on an island by himself" A star cornerback will play man-to-man coverage on an opposing football team's best receiver.
  Although he's a great cornerback, he's not alone because football is a team sport.
  If the defensive line gets to the quarterback, the receiver doesn't get an opportunity to get open-forcing the cornerback to stand in the field twiddling his thumbs.
  
• "Cheating" Why do people act surprised when athletes cork bats or use steroids? I am more surprised when they don't cheat.
  Professional athletes resemble prostitutes because both survive on their physical attributes.
  Regardless, whenever money is involved, cheaters will always remain ahead of the law.
  
• "The team is 5 games over 500" I really hate this one.
  For instance, if a team wins 30 games and loses 10, the announcer will say the team is 20 games over 500.
  In reality, if they played 40 games, wouldn't 20 games be 500? Since they won 30, the team is actually 10 games over 500.
  
• "He just willed them to a win" How? Does he have mental powers? No one can will their team to a win.
  Many factors must occur before a team wins.
  For instance, without a great front line, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning would be Abbott and Costello.
  
• "Thrown under the bus" Every other day, someone in the media reports that someone has been thrown under a bus.
  With all this throwing business, it's surprising that more athletes aren't incarcerated.
  I also want to know who drives this bus.
  There must be thousands of bodies stuck underneath.
  How does it ever move?
• "A Player Strike" In 1987, After NFL players called a strike; scabs suited up and took to the gridiron.
  I can still remember watching them play because I wanted to watch football.
  Besides, you don't know who's who until you see a jersey with a name attached to the back.
  Pro athletes on strike should be grateful they don't have to find real jobs.
  
• "Drinking the Kool Aid": This is probably the most insensitive and foolish sports analogy.
  This saying is based on the Jonestown Massacre: an incident from the 70s when Reverend Jim Jones and his followers committed suicide by drinking Kool Aid mixed with Cyanide.
  Is there anything related to sports that compares to a mass suicide?
• Athlete interviews and tweets: Who actually listens to athlete interviews or reads their tweets? Although I love sports, I don't follow interviews or read tweets because athletes rarely say anything useful.
  And if they did, who can understand them? Many athletes speak like they have a mouth full of fruit loops.
  

Okay, back to you sports announcer guy, that's my take.
Let's see if the industry can come up with some new sports lingo.