sack up

[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 24, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Hugo Hugo wrote:

> Antedated to 1993 in Usenet:
>
> 1993 rec.sport.football.pro (November 17): sack up pal and take the loss
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.football.pro/browse_thread/thread/99e6ccdddf2b7f20/9405e06a3536c97b?q=%22sack+up%22
>
> The same post begins:
>
> "a lot of blatant homering deleted:"
>
> What's homering? It appears quite a bit in Usenet when talking about
> American sport: mostly baseball, but also hockey, basketball and
> football.
>
A homer is an announcer who is obviously biased in calling the game by his rooting interest for the team that employs him, and/or (by extension?) an official--referee, umpire, scorekeeper--whose calls or decisions blatantly or disproportionately favor the home team.

LH

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