FULL STOP IT!

Dear ABC

I understand you are "redefining television". That's nice. But could you please refrain from also redefining the language of football. A News reporter tonight referred to the third "period" of the Hawthorn Collingwood match, not the third quarter. What next? Stepping up to the plate? Coast to coast? Turnover?

Let it happen again, and I will refuse to pay my licence fee.

Thank you
Cheesed of Richmond

Comments

[Soups]

Send this letter to John Casey of Fox Sports who has never uttered the word 'quarter' and wouldn't know what a quarter was even if you showed him four even slices of one orange. Would this 'get the job done'.

[TimT]

Next week: the ABC redivides the games into three, and refers to the three parts as the 'first, second and third trimesters'. You know it makes sense.

[Professor Rosseforp]

The referees will henceforth be known as stage managers, the coaches as directors, the players as the corps de football and the spectators as the audience, or, on Sundays, the congregation. The reserve bench players will be known as the coryphees. The guys with the water bottles will wear green, so as not to be seen when they enter the stage of play, and will respond to the call, "props, props".
Phillip Adams will call the game with technical advice from John Bell and Graeme Murphy.

[Francis Xavier Holden]

Shouldn't that be Cheesy Of Richmond?

Yours etc

Angry Of Mayfair

[RT]

Buswell HAS to be a Freo supporter.

Your shout Johnny So.

[Tony T]

Soups: 'getting the job done' gets right up my hooter.

Tim: You know it makes babies.

Prof: Don't give em ideas.

FX: Call me Bert... Came Bert.

RT: Yeah, but what's the bet he also barracks for the Toast when he's sniffing around for votes.