After the Bills went wide right last night on their attempted field goal, it got me thinking about how poetic feet apply to legendary moments in sports. Not that last night's 'wide right' was a legendary moment, but of course any Bills fan would be familiar with the more famous incident that ended Superbowl XXV. 'Wide right' is also a spondee, which is to say two equally stressed syllables. Turns out that several other legendary moments/events are spondees:
Game 5 (which for Red Sox fans this year will be legendary)
Drop Kick (yay Doug Flutie!)
Another favorite is the cretic, which is long-short-long (or stress-unstress-stress):
Bloody sock
Helmet catch
Curse reversed
Fenway Park
In a category all by himself, the antibacchius is rare, so rare that it does not, in fact, have its own Wikipedia page (stress-stress-unstress):
Bill Buckner
Incidentally, the Bills lost, which for a Pats fan is good news, divisionally.
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