# "And a sense of ...." (Sports t.v.)

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**Created:** [November 11, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-sense-of-sports-t-v/737252 "2015-11-11T03:18:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-sense-of-sports-t-v/737252/1 "2015-11-11T03:18:22Z")

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My local bar has several televisions turned to various All Sports All the Time stations, for which they use the Closed Captioning option. At least three of the stations frequently display a line, “… And a sense of …” followed by a string of letters and symbols (maybe 8 to 12), which always begin with “A”, seem to have two options (but I never have time to write them down, so I can’t be certain), and occur far more frequently than I would expect a phrase beginning with “a sense of …” to occur in any show.

Does any one know what is going on?