Bob Sacamano
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so our QB's attitude is coined from a nasty drink?
that's disconcerting
that's disconcerting
summerisfunner;1123681 said:so our QB's attitude is coined from a nasty drink?
that's disconcerting
superpunk;1123698 said:Undoubtedly, in short order - "He's showing some real 'Romo' out there" will become firmly entrenched in our dialect.
superpunk;1123698 said:Undoubtedly, in short order - "He's showing some real 'Romo' out there" will become firmly entrenched in our dialect.
LaTunaNostra;1123715 said:I predict it will take about five years for "Romo" to become an adjective OR verb OR common noun (nationally) if 1)Tony plays very well, gets himself a ring, and demonstrates some unique attribute associated with spunkiness in his game.
Another twenty years (if the usage continues) in which "Romo' will be considered "slang" .
And another 100 before the OED lets it 'in'.![]()
We can get this Romo linguistic bandwagon going by dropping the word on forums, blogs, and in face to face conversation.
Example..if another athlete executes a play with particular spunkiness, we can say "he romoed it" (v)..think an incredible golf shot deliberately bounced off a tree to the hole, or a three pointer basket from the outer perimeters with half a second left.
"That was a romo move" (adj), "what a romo he could be" (n), all are possible with consistency of usage and the help of the world wide web. The net changes everything - regional usage can become international in a very short time.
The closest any athlete's name has come to being coined is Jordan..but inconsistent use stalled the process. "Lebron" might have a shot if that guy's game develops along special lines.
Of course, "TO" holds the best chances of both coinage and semantic broadening.
superpunk;1123717 said:Favre-ian.
Keyshawned.
superpunk;1123729 said:October 28, 2006
pejoration and amelioration make their first appearance on a football forum.
Soak that glory up, LTN.
summerisfunner;1123616 said:http://img80.*************/img80/3471/funnysig3fg2.png
Hostile;1123735 said:Oh, this thread got good.
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Hostile;1123488 said:I disagree. 3 picks, 2 sacks taken, and one pass that was so bad I screamed. In one half of football. That isn't good. On top of this we went from 5 down to 14 down. Not even in my wildest fits of hyperbole can I call that good.
CowboyBlog;1123515 said:I have bad news for you. Romo is the one that blew the big game last monday night. .
superpunk;1123543 said:We were losing by 5, we end up losing by 14.
If he were a pitcher, he wouldn't get the L, but that's some shady solace - as he didn't lose it, but he squashed any chance his team had.
I don't think the 2nd half and what could have hapened can be accurately predicted, speculated, or guaranteed. Maybe Bledsoe would have come out firing and we win. Maybe he'd come out sputtering and we'd lose worse. No one knows and saying it was written in stone what would happen is completely illogical.dbair1967;1123856 said:see, this is pure speculation on your part
how do you know Bledsoe wouldnt have fared even worse in the 2nd half? and I guarantee you he'd have absorbed alot more hits and sacks than Romo did in the 2nd half...as poorly as Bledsoe has been throwing the ball this yr, its entirely possibly he'd have thrown as many picks and had even less success than Romo did...we might not have even scored in the 2nd half
David
Hostile;1123872 said:I don't think the 2nd half and what could have hapened can be accurately predicted, speculated, or guaranteed. Maybe Bledsoe would have come out firing and we win. Maybe he'd come out sputtering and we'd lose worse. No one knows and saying it was written in stone what would happen is completely illogical.
Romo is our QB. I think we'll play better. That doesn't mean he played well on Monday night. He has nothing to brag about and to his credit he didn't brag. Parcells said he needs to improve. Why would he need to improve if he played wlel enough?
That has been my point since Monday night and all the revisionist History in the world isn't going to change that.