When the Seahawks started using the term in an official way, A&M lodged a protest (or threatened to sue, not sure which). Apparently they had trademarked the term, or at least felt they had the rights. After negotiations, they compromised with A&M taking the rights for college and the Seahawks for the pros.
Other Nth <something> uses in sports are the 19th Green, which is the bar at the golf course clubhouse. Some of them have that at their actual name. The post-game show on some radio broadcasts of football and basketball games are sometimes called the 3rd Half or the 5th Quarter.
There is a third wheel, a single person doing something with a couple.
I had a good friend in Japan, but whenever he got into a relationship, it would turn into a codependent mess.
We would get together once a month for dinner or drinks and even though they lived and worked together, she couldn’t stand to let him have one night a month with me.
So she would come along and it changed instantly from a couple of guys hanging out together to me as a third wheel.
As far as I could tell, the only thing she liked to talk about was get friends and who was doing what. Since I had never met said friends, didn’t know them and had absolutely no idea who their current boyfriends were and why they were either better or worse then the previous ones, there wasn’t much to contribute to the conversation.
In a James Bond book, Bond has pinned a female baddie (henchwoman?) with a chair; another character makes a joke about Bond inventing the 70th position.
If you don’t get the joke, get Rob Gronkowski to explain it.
Well, give you a clue, anyway. You’d probably actually have to explain the joke to him.
which in UK parlance refers to a search and rescue service for people in distress at sea. It’s very different from the US Coast Guard, it doesn’t do things like stop boats smuggling drugs.
I saw in a museum the other day a poster for the opening ceremony for the first Tay Bridge in 1878. It was about 2 miles long and would have been amongst the longest bridges in the world at the time.
Weirdly the poster described the bridge as the “9th wonder of the world”. I’ve no idea what they regarded as the 8th wonder (by which I mean I haven’t bothered to research) but I suspect that it was something that was far more specific to the 1870s than people realised at the time.
I don’t think that quite works here, as the number of spies wasn’t regarded as normally finite (as in the Fab Four, the Seven Wonders etc…). I think we were shocked to discover that there were a couple of high level spies, then we dicovered there were four of them, then evidence turned up of a fifth, so it became “OMG, who is the fifth man!?”.
Thought about this for the OP but wasn’t sure. I’m going to guess Puerto Rico and District of Columbia May have been referred to as this.
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In basketball, you would sometimes hear a player referred to as the “sixth man” of a team - i.e. the best player to not be in the regular starting five.
I suggest Newman (!) was the fifth cast member of Seinfeld.