Did you have a "gut check" this weekend?

[Michchamp]

I keep reading this phrase in descriptions of football-related reporting: gut check plays, gut check performances, gut check wins...

Why weren't there gut check things before this year?

Unless you've been eviscerated, you really shouldn't need a "gut check." I imagine if your abdomen had been ripped open, spilling your guts outside your body, you'd know it without needing to check, so this is a pretty stupid metaphor.

I really hope I don't start hearing this phrase in the real world, like at work or something... "We had a gut check performance last quarter, team. Our EBITDA was up 0.3% over last year. Durrrrr." That would suck.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I keep reading this phrase in descriptions of football-related reporting: gut check plays, gut check performances, gut check wins...

Why weren't there gut check things before this year?

Unless you've been eviscerated, you really shouldn't need a "gut check." I imagine if your abdomen had been ripped open, spilling your guts outside your body, you'd know it without needing to check, so this is a pretty stupid metaphor.

I really hope I don't start hearing this phrase in the real world, like at work or something... "We had a gut check performance last quarter, team. Our EBITDA was up 0.3% over last year. Durrrrr." That would suck.

Our coaches used the phrase ?gut check? back when I was playing little league football in Ann Arbor, in the same league and at the same time as the Harbaughs (John anyway, Jim probably would have started playing the year after I finished) back in the 70s.

 

[byco42]

First time I heard the term, it was on MNF in the 80s, and it was said by Joe Namath. “It’s gut-check time for the defense,” which was defending from its own 1 yard line. The comment was roundly criticized as banal by the reviewers of the day.

 

[Michchamp]

First time I heard the term, it was on MNF in the 80s, and it was said by Joe Namath. ?It?s gut-check time for the defense,? which was defending from its own 1 yard line. The comment was roundly criticized as banal by the reviewers of the day.

Damn. So Americans should have known it's banal for decades now.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Damn. So Americans should have known it's banal for decades now.

No.

It required us having you encounter the term for the first time to make us so enlightened.

 

[Michchamp]

Our coaches used the phrase ?gut check? back when I was playing little league football in Ann Arbor, in the same league and at the same time as the Harbaughs (John anyway, Jim probably would have started playing the year after I finished) back in the 70s.

Coach yelling to his safety: "Time for a GUT CHECK PLAY, Tommy"

Tommy: *pats down his abdomen and turns to coach* "My guts are in place coach!"

*opposing RB runs right over Tommy*

 

[Michchamp]

No.

It required us having you encounter the term for the first time to make us so enlightened.

but he said reviewers of the day were saying it was banal in the 80's.

maybe we all just forgot? or some of us were too young to know? I wasn't really watching pro football until the late 80's.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Coach yelling to his safety: "Time for a GUT CHECK PLAY, Tommy"

Tommy: *pats down his abdomen and turns to coach* "My guts are in place coach!"

*opposing RB runs right over Tommy*

You have never encountered the term intestinal fortitude?

Same thing.

 

[tinselwolverine]

but he said reviewers of the day were saying it was banal in the 80's.

maybe we all just forgot? or some of us were too young to know? I wasn't really watching pro football until the late 80's.

Oh.

I didn?t specifically here Joe Willy use the term myself, nor am I aware of any review of it.

I think I only read the first sentence of byco?s post.

 

[TheVictors]

I consider a "gut check" situation to be more whether or not you do something in the moment.


Like jump out of the plane or run into the fire to save the cat.

 

[thewolverines24]

I thought it was referring to the Nickelodeon show Guts.

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[tinselwolverine]

I thought it was referring to the Nickelodeon show Guts.

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I got your gut check right here.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THuOzYo51EY

It is kind of a banal name for a show for kids.

 

[thewolverines24]

I got your gut check right here.



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THuOzYo51EY



It is kind of a banal name for a show for kids.

The amazing outfits make up for it.

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[Michchamp]

I consider a "gut check" situation to be more whether or not you do something in the moment.


Like jump out of the plane or run into the fire to save the cat.

Those are "nut check" situations, where you learn if you have balls or not.

 

[wlvrnstlr4life]

You have never encountered the term intestinal fortitude?

Same thing.

Um, it's Testicular Fortitude.

 

[rumseyhouse77]

Yeah, I can hear it now little league coaches using last Saturday's game to inspire their players.

Coach: Tommy!
Tommy: Yyyyes Coach.
Coach: Are you ready for this gut check today!?
Tommy: Yyyyyes Coach.
Coach: Are you ready for the kind of gut check the doughboys in WWI had in the Muese-Argonne? Like the kind of gut check the 101st Airborne had in the Battle of the Bulge? Like the kind of gut check the U.S. Marines had on Guadalcanal? Like the kind of gut check Michigan had versus Rutgers?
Tommy: Yes Coach! I'm ready! I'm ready to play like the mighty men of Michigan played when they faced the juggernaut that is Rutgers football. Put me in Coach! I'm ready for this gut check!!

 

[TheVictors]

lol, the Dow is down over 400pts this morning and the talking heads keep saying this is a market "gut check"