sportsbarSport Puns - Where did they come from?
July 30th 2007 06:21
Why is sport journalism plagued by puns? Where has this culture of bad jokes come from and why is it embedded in sport media? I certainly didn’t take pun class 101 at University, but the more sport coverage I digest the more I think that wisecracks are a precursor to gain employment in the industry. If so, my dad would have made the best sport journalist of them all.
I was left pondering this after I read an article in The Daily Telegraph labelled; ‘The Bermuda Pie-angle.’ This article had more to do with bad fat jokes than real journalism; in fact it actually took two writers to come up with that many awful gags. Somebody had a lot of fun writing this article, I have counted at least 14 puns or fat jokes in the short piece.
“As pies across St Vincent scrambled for cover, "Loverock" had England's middle order for, well, breakfast…”
Granted, sport journalism can be a little more light hearted than other world events, but still, why is the role of the sport media (especially tabloid aka Sports Tonight, Tele, etc.) to be king of the dags? I’m not having a go here, some of the times the jokes aren’t that bad, but I am just querying where this culture came from?…
I admit that I too indulge in out punning my mates, on my old blog I had titles that read; “Squash-Buckling- Gilchrist has a ball”, “India Packer Punch” and “Mona-Sham” to name a few. Channel Nine and cricket combined not that long ago to bring what was literally a pun-competition, where fans were encouraged to bring signs to the grounds with witty slogans. In what was obviously an exercise in product placement, the light hearted competition was well received around Australia.
So, I have decided to start a pun watch, if you find any good puns please let me know and we’ll try to find the pun of the year. Already we have had titles such as; Cousins Comeback put on Ice, Lyonheart, Deves-Tait-ing, GoldCoast sink after Titan-ic struggle… etc…
To read the entire article on Bermuda’s loveable cricketer, click here...
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I was left pondering this after I read an article in The Daily Telegraph labelled; ‘The Bermuda Pie-angle.’ This article had more to do with bad fat jokes than real journalism; in fact it actually took two writers to come up with that many awful gags. Somebody had a lot of fun writing this article, I have counted at least 14 puns or fat jokes in the short piece.
Absolutely Flabulous
“As pies across St Vincent scrambled for cover, "Loverock" had England's middle order for, well, breakfast…”
Granted, sport journalism can be a little more light hearted than other world events, but still, why is the role of the sport media (especially tabloid aka Sports Tonight, Tele, etc.) to be king of the dags? I’m not having a go here, some of the times the jokes aren’t that bad, but I am just querying where this culture came from?…
I admit that I too indulge in out punning my mates, on my old blog I had titles that read; “Squash-Buckling- Gilchrist has a ball”, “India Packer Punch” and “Mona-Sham” to name a few. Channel Nine and cricket combined not that long ago to bring what was literally a pun-competition, where fans were encouraged to bring signs to the grounds with witty slogans. In what was obviously an exercise in product placement, the light hearted competition was well received around Australia.
So, I have decided to start a pun watch, if you find any good puns please let me know and we’ll try to find the pun of the year. Already we have had titles such as; Cousins Comeback put on Ice, Lyonheart, Deves-Tait-ing, GoldCoast sink after Titan-ic struggle… etc…
To read the entire article on Bermuda’s loveable cricketer, click here...
Really Long Link
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