Non Sequitur of the Day: Football Phrase Co-opting Edition

As we’ve discussed, words mean something. So, it always interests me when a usage seemingly comes out of nowhere to be everywhere.

Today’s example: “Pick six.”

The phrase originally meant this.

And it has now begun to mean this.

(An all-too-rare Detroit Lions’ example can be found here).

For being an overpaid, pathetic, carpetbagging loser while running the Lions, at least Matt Millen is now being a whining tool about it

Matt Millen has begun the process of revising his horriffic Detroit history, while sounding like a little girl about it, at SI.com, and here at the Freep.

How does this guy even know what Detroiters ever thought about him? He didn’t even move here for the GM job that he wholly sucked at, to historically low extremes.