Skin In The Game

[Alice Faber]

Doug Harris wrote:
> Sorry, I _meant_ to say cricket, not soccer.
> --
> Still, the original meaning is a long way from the usage being
> applied today. Not that that's uncommon, but by taking the hat
> (award) away, one removes the 'value' of the cliché, such as it
> is.
> And one of the dumbest things about the use (as in the hockey
> situation) of a term such as this is that, so far as I know,
> little effort is ever made to explain its meaning, in context,
> to readers of or listeners to sports reports.

Actually, on sports fan newsgroups and bulletin boards, this is
considered enough of a FAQ that when the question arises (as it does
regularly) complex riffs arise, to the point of it being performance art.


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