http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W45DRy7M1no In 2005 a young college sports broadcaster gave the sports news on Bowling Green TV. He was terrified and it showed. He tried to coin a catch phrase . When a 3 point basket was made he said “boom goes the dynamite”. It fell flat and sports casters all over the country grabbed the video and showed it. The poor kid was embarrassed horribly.
Last night on the Academy Awards ,Wil Smith got a little tongue tied. He then said "boom goes the dynamite’ I bet the whole thing is being reborn for the kid again. The kid gets no peace. A bad sports world catch phrase is haunting him years later.
“Boom goes the dynomite” has been used fairly routinely on ESPN ever since the incident, so I don’t think he’s being recently mortified at it being brought up.
And the school he was from is Ball State.
I’m using it …ah… the next time…ah…when I’m sexually happy.
I hope he thinks it’s funny!
I first heard it on “Family Guy” as Cleveland’s catchphrase at the, ahem, “height of intimacy.”
Wikipedia says Collins’ prompter went down at the beginning of the segment, which explains his incredibly bad performance. I’d never heard that part before and thought he was nervous. He also got some support from ESPN broadcasters and David Letterman, in addition to his notoriety, so it looks like it worked out pretty well for him. He’s now a professional broadcaster and I doubt he’s particularly “haunted.”
I would think that Will Smith using my catch phrase in front of a bazillion people would be pretty cool…
Not if you had been razzed about it for years and hoped it was over.
So, there were no words and he did it live? Kudos on him for not cursing everyone out. 
I’ve been wondering what happened to that guy since I saw the video when it was new. Felt terrible for him.
Hmmmm…:dubious:. He’s clearly reading a teleprompter at times.
Have you read something that leads you to believe Collins definitely feels that way? Because in this article, he seems to have taken the whole in stride. From the article:
And he even said he’d be willing to give it one more go:
You or I might feel the way you’ve described if it happened to us (although I fully admit I’d get a thrill out of it being on Veronica Mars) but that doesn’t mean that Brian Collins feels that way about it.
On preview: Cisco, in my article it says there was a teleprompter, but user error led it to go too fast to read.
Actually he has been living in a cave for 4 years and just ventured out before the Awards Show. C’mon if you knew him you would hammer him all the time.
Sure, but it sure loses its sting when it manages to get him into the career he was aiming for. I’d also make fun of William Hung, but for about the amount of time it would take for him to shove the piles of money he made off of his ill-gotten fame in my face.
If I were a friend of his and taking a crap. I would yell “boom goes the dynamite” at proper intervals through the john door.