Chvotkinisms
By Hoya HoopsIn honor of our recent interview, here’s this week’s Game Time question:
What is your favorite Chvotkinism?
If you can’t guess, a Chovtkinism would be defined as one of the quirky things that Rich Chvotkin is known to say during the course of a Hoyas game. One of our favorites? The “snowbird.” What are yours?
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November 2nd, 2007 at 12:36 pm
It has to be “The blue clad Hoyas going left to right on your radio dial”
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:06 pm
I’d say anytime Roy “throws down a hoooker in the lane.”
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:21 pm
ajax cleans the boards and the hoyas win the hoyas win the hoyas win etc. etc..etc.etc. etc…
November 4th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Oh my!
November 4th, 2007 at 2:24 am
I kinda like the “4-0″ runs that he mentions. He always has a flair for the dramatic.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:35 am
In the old days if a player made the same play two possessions in a row, he would say, “This is a recording.” It was like the old telephone operator’s message that would keep repeating if a number was disconnected or something. He doesn’t do it very much in the cell phone era, but it always used to make me laugh.
November 4th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Besides the phrases I mentioned in my Hoyku, I like it when he talks about the “Vespers half.” What does that even mean?
November 4th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespers
Vespers are the evening service, so the “vesper half” is the 2nd half, or evening portion of the game
a subtle nod to the Georgetown Jesuit tradition.
November 5th, 2007 at 10:03 am
I like how he uses the term “Alley-oop.” To him, an alley-oop is just a pass, probably lobbed a little bit. And he calles a real alley-oop an “Alley-oop upstairs.” So during one play, you may hear:
“Jesse Sapp alley-oops it to Hibbert at the free throw line. Alley-oop to Wallace. Fakes a three. And alley-oop upstairs to Summers who slams it home. Oh my!”
November 5th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Shakin’ and bakin’!
November 8th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Toes the charity stripe. . .string music!
November 8th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Or: Missed the bunny!