[Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Why not the "Nash"?

Just asking.

JL

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:00 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excellent citations, Bill.
> Here are two citations for a slightly different sense. "Natty" below
> refers to the national championship game instead of the national
> championship.
>
> Date: January 8, 2008
> Channel: NBC - 4 KFOR
> Channel Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
> Time Start: 5AM - 05:00:08
> Database: NewsBank Access World News
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> COMING UP...
> AND SOME CALL IT THE NATTY -- NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
> THOUGH THIS YEAR MAY BE NATTY LIGHT.
> THAT'S BECAUSE A TWO LOSS TEAM WON THE TROPHY.
> THEY'RE JUST ONE OF NINE TEAMS WITH TWO OR LESS LOSSES TO END THE SEASON.
> WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THE FINAL GAME -- STRAIGHT AHEAD ON NEWSCHANNEL
> [End excerpt]
>
> Year: 2009
> Book Title: Always Compete: An Inside Look At Pete Carroll and the USC
> Football Juggernaut
> Author: Steve Bisheff
> Chapter 8: Game Eleven: A Great, Historic Rivalry or an Annual Mismatch?
> Quote Page 215
> Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
> Database: Internet Archive Archive.org
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> "The thing is, those teams also give up 30 or 40 points every game.
> I'd love to see USC-Florida or USC-Texas. I'd like to see how those
> teams would do against our defense, but you know, that one half at
> Oregon State got us. One half is going to keep us out of the Natty
> [national championship game] this year, and that hurts."
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 4:15 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 2004 Daily Oklahoman 29 May 2C/4
> >
> > We're just here to bring liberty and justice to the world of softball
> and to bring another natty (national championship) back to UCLA.
> >
> >
> https://www.newspapers.com/image/452750382/?terms=%22natty%20national%22&match=1
> >
> >
> >
> > 2013 Tampa Tribune Sports 19 Aug 6/1
> >
> > What makes people think we can't win a NATTY.
> >
> > https://www.newspapers.com/image/343251723/?terms=%22win%20a%20natty%22
> >
> >
> >
> > 2016 Miami Herald 3 Oct B1/5
> >
> > If we don't beat them and get a Natty [national title] in the time that
> we're here, we haven't done Miami justice.
> >
> >
> https://www.newspapers.com/image/659479297/?terms=%22get%20a%20natty%22&match=1
> >
> >
> > 2017 Opelika-Auburn News 11 Jul 4B/6
> >
> > Maybe we would have somehow won a natty.
> >
> >
> https://www.newspapers.com/image/983940938/?terms=%22won%20a%20natty%22&match=1
> >
> >
> >
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