# Boom goes the Dynamite **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 23, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082 "2009-02-23T18:47:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/1 "2009-02-23T18:47:18Z")
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W45DRy7M1no](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. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/2 "2009-02-23T18:58:25Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W45DRy7M1no](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. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/3 "2009-02-23T19:29:59Z")
I’m using it …ah… the next time…ah…when I’m sexually happy. I hope he thinks it’s funny! ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/4 "2009-02-23T20:04:46Z")
I first heard it on “Family Guy” as Cleveland’s catchphrase at the, ahem, “height of intimacy.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/5 "2009-02-23T20:09:55Z")
[Wikipedia says Collins’ prompter went down at the beginning of the segment, which explains his incredibly bad performance.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Collins_(reporter)) 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.” ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/6 "2009-02-23T20:24:34Z")
[http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?s=8808235](http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?s=8808235) ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/7 "2009-02-23T23:02:01Z")
I would think that Will Smith using my catch phrase in front of a bazillion people would be pretty cool… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/8 "2009-02-24T02:53:47Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/9 "2009-02-24T06:33:15Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Wikipedia says Collins’ prompter went down at the beginning of the segment, which explains his incredibly bad performance.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Collins_(reporter)) So, there were no words and he did it live? Kudos on him for not cursing everyone out. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/10 "2009-02-24T07:36:32Z")
I’ve been wondering what happened to that guy since I saw the video when it was new. Felt terrible for him. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/11 "2009-02-24T07:40:52Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Wikipedia says Collins’ prompter went down at the beginning of the segment, which explains his incredibly bad performance.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Collins_(reporter)) I’d never heard that part before and thought he was nervous. Hmmmm…:dubious:. He’s clearly reading a teleprompter at times. ---
**Author:** ![Rin\_Twisted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Rin\_Twisted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rin_Twisted)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/12 "2009-02-24T07:43:03Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Not if you had been razzed about it for years and hoped it was over. Have you read something that leads you to believe Collins definitely feels that way? Because [in this article,](http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?id=2785830) he seems to have taken the whole in stride. From the article: > [@](#): > > Collins would like you to know he’s doing fine. Better than fine. The sports talk radio stations don’t call anymore, and his last print interview was almost six months ago. And he even said he’d be willing to give it one more go: > [@](#): > > “It’s a big world out there. I’ve taken a few shots, and I’m ready to take a few more … Yeah, things went wrong and everybody got a good laugh. But things have changed since then.” 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. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/13 "2009-02-24T21:29:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/14 "2009-02-24T21:42:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boom-goes-the-dynamite/487082/15 "2009-02-24T23:24:19Z")
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.