Spoken by a football-game commentator

[Wilson Gray]

"He's been a real _belltower_ for this team, this year."

In context, the speaker meant "leader." He was probably reaching for
"bellwether."

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-----
                                              -Sam'l Clemens

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org