The SBP Archives - Your less than frequent dose of SBP!

For some reason, when a team has been outplayed, outworked, and in some cases, just outright dominated but still manage to eek out a victory, the announcers and journalists very rarely have the nerve to come out and say, "Boy, they really had no business winning tonight. They sucked harder than that typhoon that ran over the South Pacific last year." They try instead to come up with any excuse to reflect the result rather than the means on how they got there. Oddly enough, when a team does lose and puts out a mediocre effort, no one has any problems throwing them under the bus and criticizing them so it's not a question of wanting to be "nice." Here are some of my favourite clichés that capture the moment perfectly:

"They found a way to win"

"It was a grinding win"

"Good teams win games like this"

" (insert player's name) stole the game for them tonight!"

"They showed a lot of resilience!"

"They kept their calm!"

"They were patient!"

"They weathered the storm!"

"It wasn't pretty but you occasionally win games like that!"

"Their opponent didn't know how to finish"

"The only statistic that matters is getting those two points!"