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Old 02-09-2017, 04:13 PM   #21
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I totally agree. If you're gonna refer to someone as greatest of all time, pay that person/athlete proper respect and say it fully don't say GOAT....ugh, hearing Jim Rome say it over and over, just epic acronym fail IMO.
well half your problem is listening to Jim Rome in the first place.
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Old 02-09-2017, 04:15 PM   #23
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I'm sad that this thread has more posts than the actual GOAT thread. cmon, join in and show some love to Ali, Bambino, The Great One, Maestro, His Airness, etc

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=160024
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Old 02-09-2017, 04:51 PM   #24
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Goat, in sports, is short for scapegoat. Example: "In almost every game last season, Hiller was the goat."

Pick another acronym for someone who's the best ever at something. Goat is already taken. Also, get the #### off my lawn!!
Remember that we speak english and in many cases a word has dual meaning, in some of those cases, one contradictory of each other.

I have always liked the use GOAT(Greatest of All Time) more than in the negative term. I prefer to use "Dennis Wideman".

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Old 02-09-2017, 04:53 PM   #25
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Remember that we speak english and in many cases a word has dual meaning, in some of those cases, one contradictory of each other.
And those words always cause trouble with written communication because of the ambiguity. The last thing we need is to create more of them.

However, all will probably well. ‘GOAT’ reminds me of another acronym, ‘Gröfaz’. Back in World War II, once it became obvious that Hitler had massively screwed up by invading Russia, German troops began calling him Gröfaz – ‘Größter Feldherr aller Zeiten’, or Greatest General of All Time. The acronym was invented by Goebbels' propaganda people as a way of praising Hitler, but the troops always meant it sarcastically – more so as the war went on and it became clear that Germany was being destroyed.

To this day, the German press sometimes use derivatives of ‘Gröfaz’ as insulting nicknames for things or people. I recall seeing ‘Greatest Team of All Time’ and ‘Greatest Coach of All Time’ used in German sports reporting, for instance, though I can't remember which awful soccer club and coach they were referring to.

I imagine ‘GOAT’ will quickly come to be used ironically, and before you know it, calling somebody the GOAT will be the same as calling them… well… the goat.
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Old 02-09-2017, 05:03 PM   #27
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I guess this is what happens during a bye week
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I feel like this acronym is not new. Wasn't it popularized by Muhammad Ali?
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No, Ali was simply ‘The Greatest’. No acronym.
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I feel like this acronym is not new. Wasn't it popularized by Muhammad Ali?
the first I recall hearing it was in 2000 when LL Cool J released an album with the title G.O.A.T
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Judging by an LL Cool J CD I bought way back in the day, it's been called that since at least the late 90s

Edit: Lol, only read the OP when I responded. Hilarious that CD was referenced already in this thread. Good album. Not a GOAT album though
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Old 02-09-2017, 05:38 PM   #36
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Hahaha awesome.
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Never heard of this before the Superbowl. To me goat means a player who made a bad play.
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Hahaha awesome.
That's a good new look you have.
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When I first saw GOAT, I thought it was some kind of a metric like the "Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test" in the Fallout video games.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Genera..._Aptitude_Test
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Personally I feel it doesn't work when discussing sports because goat is already used to single out the player or coach that messed up in a game.
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