Talk:Matriculation (sports activity)

"[C]aught"

   I found

... wore a microphone on the sidelines as part of the television broadcast, and was caught telling his Kansas City Chiefs ...

and i substituted "heard" for "caught", since he surely knew all his chatter was to become part of at least the deep background for the sports reporters. (And we have no right to infer anyone was trying to evoke the American political candidate who supposedly won his race after telling constituents that "my opponent has admitted to matriculating in college, and ..." [something else, perhaps contributing to eleemosynary groups], surely in his confident that many of the voters were unfamiliar with, e.g., matriculation.
   (This is true, even if the coach perhaps was, and/or 'casters since have been, motivated by the fact of some listeners' understanding of the expression "getting down to the short strokes". (Huh, red link?) Well, in that case, consult a particular On Language column among All the news that's fit to print, by jumping to its first use of the word "stroke", and starting your reading from the last 'graph preceding it (in order sense the context).)
   (I don't recall whether i intuited that sense [my dirty mind], or someone [the bad company i keep] explained it to me, but i'm too old, or maybe even too wise, to keep worrying over it.)
--Jerzy•t 11:29, 26 August 2017 (UTC)