No more swagger
2010-11-29 10:23:00
Mike Birkbeck, Uxbridge, Ont
Sportswriters, please take note: Please, please, please, stop using the word "Swagger."
I must have heard it a 1,000 times on TV throughout last year's Stanley Cup playoffs. And now, this ridiculous word is littering my THN subscription.
You will never catch me after a game of pickup, turning to my buddy saying, "Hey Stevie... you played with a lot of Swagger tonight!"
It doesn't belong in the hockey dressing room just like it doesn't belong in THN.
Webster's is rife with adjectives. Surely there is a better word than "swagger" to describe the greatest game on earth.
Pass the word off to something like Dancing With The Stars or speed walking!
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