Scoring At Home: Your SportsCenter Catchphrase-O-Meter Scoring At Home
June 24th, 2009
An occasional feature in which we explain and evaluate a SportsCenter anchor’s pet phrase. Today’s phrase: “I know a cat named Way Out Willy.” Anchor: Neil Everett Context: Willy Aybar of the Tampa Bay Rays hits a deep fly ball. Origin: The phrase comes from the 1958 Johnny Otis hit, ” Willie and the Hand Jive ,” a Bo Diddley-influenced song whose opening lyric is, “I know a cat named Way Out Willie.” Otis, the son of Greek immigrants, has been called “the Godfather of Rhythm &
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