In hockey the proper name is goaltender. In soccer, it's goalkeeper. I could live with "tender" or "keeper'', but "goalie"?
And don't you hate it when amateurs like Jeannie Zalasko say ''Top 2" or "bottom 7" like it's so much trouble to say "it's the top of the 2nd inning", or "it's the bottom of the seventh". And if she doesn't do something about that wild hair of hers.......
2007-03-01 04:27:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Hockey
Jeannie Zalasko is a poor broadcaster and has lousy hair. Goalies? No such thing. One guy has been misinformed about hockey for 35 years. Holy smokes! The whole question was obviously meant as a joke. I thought it was pretty funny, and accurate.
2007-03-02 14:34:14 · answer #1 · answered by Lone Ranger 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I've never seen so many idiots and wrong people on one site before. A goalkeeper is a goalkeeper. A goaltender is a goaltender.
2007-03-02 21:56:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I guess it never occured to any of these dimwits that the Q might've represented jest.
I played GOALKEEPER professionally and if anyone would've called me a goalie I'd have driven a #5 ball right up their dupkus.
2007-03-02 22:03:35 · answer #3 · answered by Silver Fox 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So they call them goalie to shorten it. BOO-HOO for you. I bet you hate when they call an Umpire an UMP. Must kill you when they call a Referee a REF. How about a WINGER, I mean come on the player is either the Right Wing or Left Wing. Although I do agree with you about that calling an inning a top 2 or bottom 7.
2007-03-01 12:45:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
It bugs me more that we call people like Jose Theodore a goaltender when he couldnt stop a puck with pads twice the size of the ones he currently wears. Can we not just call him worthless, talentless blob who stands in net instead.
2007-03-01 15:22:03 · answer #5 · answered by amysue4772 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It's called the language of the game. Goalie means goaltender/goalkeeper because it's easier and faster to say.
Think of it from a coach's perspective:
if you're trying relay a play to your team, there's usually not enough time to evoke full syntax to your players. and that's where the shorthand comes in.
Think of it from a broadcaster's perspective:
If you're doing highlights, you have to talk fast enough to cover the big news as well as any breaking news.
If you're doing PxP, you have to talk fast enough to follow players' actions.
It goes from Coach -> Players -> Media -> Viewers. It's part of the culture of the sport.
2007-03-01 15:25:55 · answer #6 · answered by 3dot3dash3dot 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I played hockey for 20 years
now I have been coaching for 15.
I have never heard any other term than
goalie for hockey or keeper for soccer
sorry to disapoint you.
2007-03-01 12:33:45 · answer #7 · answered by rottentothecore 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I've never heard "DEFENDERS OF THE GOAL!" Sounds like something from The Power Rangers! Do you even play?
2007-03-02 02:53:12 · answer #8 · answered by buellxb9r_d-man98 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
totally! I also hate it when people call it a water fountain and not a bubbler. Or when they call it Soda instead of Pop.
if more people talked like me the whole world would be better GOD!!
seriously though, you're an idiot.
2007-03-01 14:40:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Sorry, but in UK football (soccer) goalkeepers are ALWAYS goalies
2007-03-01 12:36:17 · answer #10 · answered by Kate J 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋