So why do ppl talk about winning a 'chip'?

Can't think of any other reason.

CHampionshIP

but im banned tho.
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do you really honestly think the YT powers that be would ever in a million years consider awarding them an actual ship?? Lmao please, better learn to eat just one.

I feared the answer was obvious.
Players get rings when they win championships, right?

I've wondered, silently, if they also get some kind of chip.

Which one makes the defensive linemen's asses look better?

so its like... you know cause english

as in football association.


makes no sense right? but here we are

Lawyers love stretching stuff out. It depends on the context. People say championship trophy and the team won the chip.

CHampionshIP

b/c i do hear ppl say 'championchip' too often. so i'm not sure 'chip' is always a shortened version of 'championship'.

shop (just because that's how some of them pronounce that sound), and those old dudes aren't also calling them "chips". I don't think there's any correlation there.

Chip just comes from the first two letters and the last two letters, and is just a way to abbreviate it easily. "Ship" isn't as descriptive. That could be anything - membership, ownership, relationship, dealership, etc.

>So why do ppl talk about winning a 'chip'?

And I'm on my way to Bristol to stand outside ESPN's offices to ask them for their thoughts as employees leave the facility.

Too much?

i always assumed it was the first 2 and last 2 letters

also once thought it was related to "blue chip" somehow but i got no reasonable explanation for that mental association

it makes me cringe a bit. which is why 'chip' is a pet peeve.

yes, i spell it championship, but really say championchip. and definitely say won the chip.

i have thought about that, like sowhat, but didn't ponder it too deeply. i chalked it up to CHampionshIP, and also because it's usually pronounced championchip. not necessarily a real hard CH, more of a "sch" sound. i dunno.

btwn championship vs championchip ...seems like youd have to listen really really closely to really tell the difference

right?

>So why do ppl talk about winning a 'chip'?

but i'm not totally sure.

amirite?

you might sound like holyfield.

Shortly before or shortly after the pistons won the title in 04

Even if no one even remembers it at this point, i think thats where the board (and others outside OKS) got it

all they do is doubt us.

Of course I don't spell it that way, but I do pronounce it with two hard "ch" sounds. I'm sure many other sports people do to. It just got shortened.

"chip" is short for a title also. Have heard people using that term for years.

This is sports talk man. We don't give a fuck about all those language rules and shit here. That's for non-athletes.

i'm hip.

still, this 'chip' nonsense irks me. mostly b/c i believe the origin is in the mispronunciation of 'championship' and not a contracting of 'championship' as some claim.

that sounds horrible..

I just tried to say it and it feels like work.

Champion-chip.

Didn't know people actually tried to make the "sh" sound, lol. That sounds weird as fuck to me.

shortened slang.

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I always thought of it like stacking chips in poker. The goal is to get all the chips and you are the champion.

Yeah. English word spelling just doesn't match the pronunciation more often than not it seems.

I never pronounce it with an "sh" sound. What manner of niggatry is this???


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it doesn't sound weird at all.

and i definitely pronounce championship w/a 'SHip' and not 'CHip'.

Where the hell can you fit a 'sh' sound in the word street?