Re: First BBC live football broadcast (22-1-1927)

On 1/23/2024 1:35 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

   Ar an dara lá is fiche de mí Eanair, scríobh Antonio Marques:
   > [...] In Portugal it gets really annoying that, maybe to avoid repetition,
  > maybe to fill up space, maybe to slow the rhythm, sports broadcasts don’t
  > ever refer to things by their names, but by multi-word paraphrases. ‘The
  > team from the capital city of furniture’, ‘the spherical (object)’, ‘the
  > norwegian forward’, etc. Is that a thing in other countries too?
 

I’ve seen it commented that it’s a thing in Spain, the argument being that too
many pronouns would be unclear. I haven’t sufficient interest in sports to
verify one way or the other locally, though there is plenty of commentary to
fill up space (one that is well known: “Seán Óg Ó hAilpín: his father’s from
Fermanagh, his mother’s from Fiji. Neither a hurling stronghold.”)
 

take MLB, NFL, or  NBA - Radio broadcast (USA) --- does anyone notice Anything like this?
in print:   take (e.g.)  The New York Times, ...  this is less common now than 40 years ago???