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It is called Alex Box, right?
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:13 pm
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:13 pm
One of the guys calling the game on 98.1 keeps saying "Alec" box and it's driving me crazy.
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Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:13 pm to Fatty Magoo
It alec
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:13 pm to Fatty Magoo
Tiger Rant
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:13 pm to Cosmo
Ellick*
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:15 pm to Cosmo
quote:
It alec
No, it's not.
It was a mispronunciation perpetuated by Hawthorne and now carried on by Blair for some reason. Notice how pretty much every other sports media personality in town pronounces the name correctly ("Al-ex").
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:15 pm to Fatty Magoo
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:18 pm to saint amant steve
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was a mispronunciation perpetuated by Hawthorne and now carried on by Blair for some reason. Notice how pretty much every other sports media personality in town pronounces the name correctly ("Al-ex").
Wrong, dipshit.
"For years, LSU announcers Bill Franques and Jim Hawthorne pronounced Alex Box Stadium as spelled, enunciating the “x” in each of the first two words.
In the 1990s, that changed.
Simeon Alexander Box, the former LSU athlete the stadium was after, was called something closer to “Alec” or “Elec” by family members, the announcers learned.
Neal Box, a younger brother of Alex who died in 1996, explained the pronunciation in the early ’90s, Hawthorne said.
What Hawthorne heard sounded much like the informal name for the central Louisiana city of Alexandria, a nickname with a casual, country ring to it."
LINK
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:20 pm to Fatty Magoo
This post is for the rant pussy
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:23 pm to Fatty Magoo
DIAF!
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:24 pm to lsu2006
That's not what I what I learned as a kid.
Regardless, I refuse to pronounce any word ending in 'ex' as 'ec'.
So apparently, every other member of the local and national sports media is a dipshit too, huh?
Regardless, I refuse to pronounce any word ending in 'ex' as 'ec'.
quote:
Wrong, dipshit.
So apparently, every other member of the local and national sports media is a dipshit too, huh?
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:24 pm to saint amant steve
Dumbass
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:25 pm to saint amant steve
Shut up
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:26 pm to Fatty Magoo
It's Skip Bertman Field
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:29 pm to saint amant steve
I'd be interested in knowing how you pronounce your handle. Bet you don't do it phonetically.
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:29 pm to saint amant steve
quote:
So apparently, every other member of the local and national sports media is a dipshit too, huh?
More or less, yeah.
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:36 pm to saint amant steve
It's absolutely no secret that it is pronounced with an -ec at the end.
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:38 pm to Fatty Magoo
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One of the guys calling the game on 98.1 keeps saying "Alec" box and it's driving me crazy.
Sounds like the dude was one of those try-Hards. I can't stand those.
Just say Alex like it's supposed to be
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:43 pm to Fatty Magoo
His mama called him Alec, imma call him Alec
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:48 pm to lsu2006
That's why I just call it DA BOX!
Posted on 4/22/16 at 7:52 pm to SuperSaint
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one of those try-Hards
This post was edited on 4/22/16 at 7:53 pm
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