foofs

Our Sportschick. Always reading for context.

 

I always heard it in reference to PR types.

"Stupid PR foofs."

 

There was the song Foof the Magic Dragon

 

Foofdays with Morrie.
Five Foofs you meet in Heaven.

 

Don't forget best sellers The DaVinci Foof and Foof and Demons by Dan Foof.

 

yep

i first heard foof in the press box at a Giants game maybe 15 years ago. may have been coined by George King?

describes a clueless sports writer.

one who acts like a buffoon, giggles too much, talks too loud, participates only in pack interviews since he never has a story idea of his own and participates in more fantasy baseball leagues than he's had sexual partners

 

It's been used in baseball press boxes for more than 30 years.. the first guy I heard use it was Bill Madden.
And it seemed mostly to be aimed at the clueless radio guys ("radio foofs") who would invade NY baseball clubhouses in August and September when there were pennant races and ask some of the dumbest questions you ever could imagine... sort of combination fool and goof (get it?)

I guarantee you it was not coined by George King and it existed long before fantasy leagues did.

 

what he said. 8)

don't know that it originally pertained to just electronic media types, but it surely often fit. as in, "some radio/tv foof did/said this..." but a foof can pertain to anyone. it's a great term. 8) 8) 8)

 

I've heard it about TV foofs, too.

 

Think Norman McLean!

 

I thought you were asking about some baseball term like RBI ... I was trying to figure out what Foof might be an acronym for ... force outs on Fridays? ...

 

think any on-air talking hairdo.

or screamin' stephen a., the ultimate new-age foof. or mike and the mad dog, foofs of the first magnitude.