After watching the Bees get destroyed by simple jump hooks and one step moves in the paint all night against the Bucks, I thought to myself just how nice it would have been to be drunk. I mean really smashed. After hearing what my brain computed as the 400th pun from Gil and Bob tonight I thought, "man now there is a drinking game!" So brought to you by what has to be the punniest broadcast team in all of television history (forgive my pun, I just couldn't help it my brain is becoming trained): "The Hornets Broadcast Drinking Game.
Any standard pun: 1 Drink. example: "He might go from Scott Skiles to Scott Scowls soon." -- The Gill Unit
Any pun that both Gil and Bob get involved in: 2 Drinks example: I cant remember one, but they do it all the time. One makes a pun and then the other comes back with another one immediately.
The rare Double or Triple pun: Down your drink. example: Treja Stojoko-swish
I think this will do the job of making bad games more entertaining and getting us all nice and smashed. Enjoy and let me know how it works for you. hehe
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ticktock6
02/25/10 08:10 AM
Gil was in rare form last night. My two favorites that I remember:
Gil, talking about Brandon Jennings, I think, just randomly goes, "As the rappers say, 'He be illing'" with air quotes around it and with the "g" pronounced. It was terrifying. Then at the end of the game, Gil was describing Royal Ivey fouling wrapping up Marcus Thornton and said, "It was like he was growing on him." Ho ho ho! (OK I actually laughed at that one, but the Hornets were down about 17 to the Bucks and it was a long day...)
Some suggestions to add:
*Drink when Gil and Bob go off on personal tangents as play is going on. The worst example of this was the Raptors early Sunday road game where, for whatever reason, they wore warmup tracksuits instead of suits. They WOULD. NOT. STOP. TALKING. ABOUT. IT. "It's casual Sunday today!" The in-game "question" supposedly from a viewer calling from home was even about casual Sunday... but I don't believe anyone ever asked that. I think they made it up themselves. It was awful. Last night they talked about how some arena attendant had made off with one of their jackets, and continued to talk about it through a Hornets possession.
*Drink when CST goes more than 1 entire possession without updating the score. This really does happen about once a game. It drives me crazy.
I have actually been wanting to do this on my site for some time now. Maybe we can come up with a long and comprehensive set of rules and examples.
(The funniest thing about all this is Gil McGregor is totally normal in person and actually very knowledgeable about basketball... I wish he would share that knowledge more on air instead of being funny.)
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TopherPrice
02/25/10 09:49 AM
Yeah, I really do like the broadcast crew. They just make me cringe some times. I mean the puns are sometimes really complex, Gil will throw in literature or art references. He is on a whole other level with his pun making abilities. ...But still my brain just goes, "Another one!?!?"
That Jacket thing was great. My fav line from that exchange was: Bob: well I am sure you will see him with it when we go to leave." Gil's big 6'8" self: "Yeah it's not like it is "regular size person" jacket." <- paraphrasing of course.
Well if we get enough new rules I will post another journal updating the game. What started out as my sarcastic attempt at humor has now become something I really think I am going to enjoy when watching the game with others.
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Joe Gerrity
02/25/10 10:11 PM
Sounds fun. I'll give it a "shot" next time.
I must say though, Bob and Gil tend to crack jokes and let the conversation go astray much more often when we are losing than winning. Can you blame them for wanting to talk about something else during a game like last night?
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TopherPrice
02/26/10 01:54 PM
The certainly do, and no I can not blame them. But the Pun per Minute stat stays the same whether the Bees are winning or losing. LOL
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LSUhornet
03/03/10 02:04 PM
If Gil is really knowledgeable about basketball then I'm pissed he dumbs it down for broadcasts.
@Ronin
The 3rd one was even worse than your remembered. It was "Treja Stoy-arc-a-swish." My brain hurts.
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TopherPrice
03/03/10 06:23 PM
LOL, I hadn't realized that it was a true Triple Pun! WOW, now that is talent. I know one of them has a Quadruple Pun in them. I think that would warrant having to chug the entire pitcher of whatever you are drinking.
As far as Gil goes, you should cut him some slack. He does have to answer questions from Bob if he gets to basketbally, so it is most likely risk management.
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