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Per his article:

7. “Jazz Man”

This is what Utah’s announcers, and presumably Utah fans, call members of the team — and even ex-members. As in: “Paul Millsap, a former Jazz man, is having a big game against his old team!” I like it! It has a pleasing pop culture referent, and it’s a nice way of making up for the fact that a human player can’t be “a Jazz” in the way he could be “a Celtic” or “a Knick.” I’ve seen the Magic toss around “Magic Man” like this, and that hasn’t tickled me in the same way. What are the Thunder supposed to do?
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https://grantland.com/features/wheel-of-misfortune/
 
The strange thing is I remember the 'Jazzman' being used when I started to follow the Jazz in the late 1980's. I wonder how he could have missed it for this long.
 
Did Zach Lowe not get the memo you are only allowed to bitch and complain about anything Boler or Harpring say?
 
The only thing I find offensive is that a lot of ex "Jazz Men"' seem to have big nights against their former team. I want to start hearing these players tell the media they HATE playing against Utah because the Jazz are so good and always battle them physically. That was the characteristic of the Sloan era: almost every team disliked coming to Utah and getting pounded on for 48 minutes.
 
How does he feel about "fry sauce", "Houdini", "buckle up", "signage" , "Jazz Nation" Boler saying "Cut me Mick" every time a player bleeds or "Burk Brothers" even though their names are spelled and pronounced differently or Ron Boone saying "oh my" as if it passes for acceptable color commentation or anything Steve Brown has uttered at anytime during any game.
 
candrew said:
How does he feel about "fry sauce", "Houdini", "buckle up", "signage" , "Jazz Nation" Boler saying "Cut me Mick" every time a player bleeds or "Burk Brothers" even though their names are spelled and pronounced differently or Ron Boone saying "oh my" as if it passes for acceptable color commentation or anything Steve Brown has uttered at anytime during any game.
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You forgot "T & A" or "hammering down a 3 pointer" as other common color commentator expressions only found in Utah.
 
akirac73 said:
You forgot "T & A" or "hammering down a 3 pointer" as other common color commentator expressions only found in Utah.
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LOL - IIRC a little "T & A" made a very, very brief appearance in the Harpring Lexicon and then mysteriously disappeared. The first time I heard it I did a double take. I think I heard a couple more times and then never again.

I wonder if someone told him what it really stands for?
 
candrew said:
LOL - IIRC a little "T & A" made a very, very brief appearance in the Harpring Lexicon and then mysteriously disappeared. The first time I heard it I did a double take. I think I heard a couple more times and then never again.

I wonder if someone told him what it really stands for?
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Like Memo's "money shot".
 
Maybe you guys should just take a break from watching the jazz.
Or you could turn down the volume and broadcast games yourselves. Y'all sound like professionals.
 
[size/HUGE] fixed [/size];787234 said:
stfu. Harp and Boler didn't coin "jazzman".
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My, you have excellent reading comprehension.

Let me explain this to you. Cyrone did not say that Boler and Harpring coined the phrase "Jazzman". He did not infer that they created it anywhere. What Cyrone said was that we are supposed allowed to bitch and complain everything Boler and Harpring says, thus inferring that they say the phrase, not that they came up with it.

Congratulations on knowing the English language so well.
 
Hantlers said:
My, you have excellent reading comprehension.

Let me explain this to you. Cyrone did not say that Boler and Harpring coined the phrase "Jazzman". He did not infer that they created it anywhere. What Cyrone said was that we are supposed allowed to bitch and complain everything Boler and Harpring says, thus inferring that they say the phrase, not that they came up with it.

Congratulations on knowing the English language so well.
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you douche things up so ****ing well.

grats.
 
Cy's comment implied that people continuously complain about Boler and Harp's terms. That isn't their term. Part of the reason a lot of people like it: it's good. Part of the reason it's good: they didn't coin it.
 
[size/HUGE] fixed [/size];787275 said:
Cy's comment implied that people continuously complain about Boler and Harp's terms. That isn't their term. Part of the reason a lot of people like it: it's good. Part of the reason it's good: they didn't coin it.
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Again, your reading comprehension is poor. Please explain to me how Cy implied that they bitch about Boler and Harp's "terms". Cy specifically said "anything Boler or Harpring say". That would actually imply their terms as well as anything else they say, including "Jazzman".

Please continue to show off your lack of English knowledge though, I'm enjoying this.
 
candrew said:
LOL - IIRC a little "T & A" made a very, very brief appearance in the Harpring Lexicon and then mysteriously disappeared. The first time I heard it I did a double take. I think I heard a couple more times and then never again.

I wonder if someone told him what it really stands for?
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I bet Gail/Greg Miller gave Harpring a nice little warning to never repeat that on air ever again. Matt Harpring grew up in the Atlanta area (not exactly a sheltered/conservative city), so it's hard for me to believe he never heard of the "T & A" moniker before. He probably thought it was funny, got his hands slapped, then stopped...
 
[size/HUGE] fixed [/size];787270 said:
cool post.
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Please tell me you're being sarcastic. If you actually think any of my posts are cool then I've really failed.
 
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