Bronx Cheer

[Grodie Brundy]

I don't think a 'Bronx cheer' means what a lot of people in the media think it means.

What the media think it means: sarcastically cheering for a player/official when they finally do something of value/pay their team a free kick.

What it actually means: "Blowing a raspberry" in derision.

I have a feeling someone has used the phrase once in the last couple of years, it's caught on and now I hear it at least once a round.

Had anyone heard of this phrase before until recently?

 

[Juggs Magnetic]

I've known it to refer to the former for as long as i can remember, doesn't mean i've known it to be correct however.

 

[Grodie Brundy]

I've known it to refer to the former for as long as i can remember, doesn't mean i've known it to be correct however.

Yeh I'd been hearing it more and more and was interested to know the origins of the name. I've certainly never heard the term used in any other sports.

 

[MeestaNob]

Same as 'flog'.

Great word, lots of fun, everyone knows what you mean (now), but before Dunstall popularised it I dont see evidence of it being used quite in that context.

 

[Micksy]

I think they mean "Ironic Cheer".

And they seem to think it's just their own fans that do it. If I've heard that one of the opposition's "best" players hasn't has a mark up until the last quarter, I'll give it to them when they finally clunk one.

 

[Modified Dog]

I'm struggling to see the disconnect. When the fans sarcastically cheer their overpaid forward for holding a mark, or cheer the white maggots for finally paying them a free kick, they are basically "blowing a raspberry" in derision. There is nothing positive about their cheering.

I've heard Channel 7 commentators such as Sandy Roberts refer to the "bronx cheers" since the mid 80's.
There is nothing new about it.

 

[Docker Alyssa]

Weird thread is weird.

 

[cammo78]

Errr. Aren't they the same thing?