[Ads-l] QOTY, sports division?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Nov 20 00:46:22 UTC 2015


Alabama coach Nick Saban at a presser, on how nobody should automatically assume his team will waltz over unheralded Charleston Southern this Saturday (Alabama is favored by 20 points):

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/nick-saban-compares-2011-game-to-a-human-waste-function--video-143034968.html

The relevant passage, as it were, is around 1:10; Saban is describing how his dominant national championship team a few years ago had considerable trouble stopping the equally unheralded Georgia Southern team.  More precisely, he recalls, "They ran through our ass like shit through a tin horn".   A southernism, it appears.  

LH

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