Gene Collier’s Annual Trite Trophy has been recognizing the most ridiculous sports cliche of the year for thirty years. I’ve enjoyed them all. In fact, this morning I remembered reading the “Smashmouth Football” winner with Darlene, my wife. I thought “Wonder what year that was? 2000? 1998?”
Not sure what to make of the fact that “Smashmouth Football” won the Trite Trophy in 1990 way before Darlene and I were married. When I told her, she mumbled something about it being a lot of years we’ve been together. But not in a nostalgic, reminiscing kind of way.
This year’s winner also picked up the #5 slot in my Most Annoying Workplace Phrases of 2013.
Enjoy Collier’s Column here.