"paycheck game" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: paycheck game

Gloss: in American college football, a sporting competition between a strong, favored team and a lower-caliber team (usually from another conference), for which the favored team pays the underdog a substantial fee.

Note: Also called a bodybag game or a cupcake game.

Filed under: English, United States, Football, Sports & Recreation, Slang

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Youngstown St. was scheduled before the upset so even if the Buckeyes had second thoughts it was too late. This is a win is a win is a win of a game that is regularly referred to as a “paycheck game.” YSU picked up their big paycheck, got pounded 38-6 and left town bloodied but richer.

Article or document title:
“Ohio State Charlatans” (URL)

Author:
“Keltic Gator”

(This author is either a pseudonym or is not clearly named in the original source.)

Article, document, publication, web site:
Orange and Blue Hue

Date of publication:
Oct. 18, 2007

This catchword has yet to be researched.

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Comments:

With all the upsets in college football this year -- most notably (and of most relevance here) Appalachian State's upset of Michigan, we may need to invent another term. Some ideas: Cupcake's revenge, vampire cupcake, heavily armed bodybag, garnished paycheck, and my personal favorite, vorpal bunny. (It's a Monty Python reference.)
by MarkSouthFL 21 Oct 07, 0453 GMT