Okay. Since Stephanie doesn’t watch football with me, I have to vent online.
I was watching the Colts-Bucs game on Sunday and one of the announcers–I’m not sure which one–spewed this gem:
“The immeasurables of Jeff Garcia are off the chart.”
This is the kind of thing which announcers say when a storyline player’s statistics don’t match the claims of greatness bestowed upon the player by the announcers. Other terms used are leader, intangibles, and presence. In this case, the proper response is “duh!”
Immeasurable, according to dictionary.reference.com, means “impossible to measure” and “vast.” So, yes, those things of Jeff Garcia’s which cannot be put on a chart are not put on a chart.
I know it isn’t fair to make fun of a single comment made by someone who talks for 3 hours straight, but that one struck me as being a doozie!