Week 6 college football thread: Calgorithm is Gonna Get You

1 game between ranked teams. Is it apple picking season?

 

Sixty. Five. Million. Dollars.

Might as well give him some time.

 

This might be a dumb question, but is there a reason they seem to make a point of calling it the "two minute timeout" in college instead of the more established and colloquial "two minute warning"? Listening to the announcers, it's obvious a lot of them are making a point to say it that way, as if they get docked a paycheck if they slip up.
Does the NFL own a trademark on "two minute warning" or something like that?

 

FSU likes to think of itself as a powerhouse, but it’s really a nouveau riche outfit. Beverly Hillbillies Southeast. They don’t have the kind of cash it takes to buy their way out of the ACC or get rid of a coach the way ATM did.

 

Two-minute ‘timeout’ or two-minute ‘warning’? College football’s hottest question, explained

 

Yes. The NFL has a trademark or similar protection on that phrase. Seems silly, but it’s real.

 

Let's ask the patrons at the Master's.

 

A guy on my board works for ESPN and that was the reasoning he gave (trademark).

 

"Two-minute timeout."

It's as dumb as those evangelicals who call Halloween a Pagan holiday with ties to the devil and instead hold a "Harvest holiday" or some other bullshit where kids dress up in costumes and go from car to car in the church parking lot on Oct. 31, getting candy and other treats.

Everybody calls it the "two-minute warning." Just like everybody in Oregon still calls the OSU-UO game the "Civil War," and how probably every OU-UT fan calls their game the Red River Shootout and how every UGa-Florida fan calls the Jacksonville game TWLCP, even though those games have been renamed.

 

Two-minute timeout sounds like what you give a misbehaving hockey player.

 

Or a toddler.