When Athletes Cuss

Posted on 15 December 2009 by Chris Shellcroft

Athletes Cuss

Anybody who has played sports of any kind or has ever worked at the DMV knows that sometimes four letter words are the only way to express how one feels.

It wasn’t so long ago that the only time you’d hear an athlete using some blue language during a game was on bleeped out blooper reels. Unless you had floor seats close enough to hear all the action, you’d just have to guess what was being said during those moments of frustration.

Thanks to technological innovation and round-the-clock media coverage we get to hear and see everything live.

Even with the 5-second Janet Jackson ashy nipple delay instituted, things still leak out to a voyeuristic public thanks to the internet.

Despite our ever dwindling list of social taboos, nothing gets our attention like a good F-Bomb dropped in the midst of a live interview. Getting a glimpse of Britney’s yeasty Federline cave is hardly shocking but hearing a coach using an off-color term for Oedipus certainly raises a few eyebrows.

Sometimes no other words will suffice.

Sometimes our emotions get the best of us.

Sometimes those moments we assume are private aren’t really.

Here are a few of those moments.

Sometimes athletes get mad at the fans

Sometimes athletes get mad at the refs

Sometimes athletes get mad at the interviewer

Sometimes coaches get mad each other

(Sometimes you have to read lips)

Sometimes athletes get mad at themselves

Sometimes coaches are just trying to win a game

Sometimes athletes forget they’re on live TV

Sometimes sports anchors forget their mics are hot

Sometimes fans know when they’re on live TV

Sometimes actors athletes cuss while endorsing their products

Sometimes Babs has to choke a bitch

(Chris Shellcroft is the lead blogger for Just Blog Baby, occasional contributor on Lake Show Life and an all around righteous dude. You can follow him on Twitter.)


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