In a heated Christmas-adjacent battle between the New York Jets and Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday night, there was a lot more at stake than just playoff positioning. Also on the line was how we, as a rational football-watching populace, utilize the English language.
With the Jaguars and Trevor Lawrence once again rising to relative prominence lately, a natural “debate” about how to pronounce their mascot name has started to materialize more and more. The correct way (I will not entertain anything to the contrary) is, of course, “Jag-War.” The wrong way is “Jag-Wires.” TNF announcer Kirk Herbstreit pronounced it in the latter fashion, drawing questions, to me, of his credibility in understanding very basic words.
