GOAT (or G.O.A.T), as in “Greatest of All Time.” I have always heard it, but never looked it up until now.
shareWhen I was growing up in the '80s it referred to a Pontiac GTO:
https://robertstthomas.com/pontiac-gto-called-goat/
I never heard it used as an acronym for "Greatest of all Time" until I got internet access in the early 2000s.
When I first heard it, not an acronym, it was the team player who made the critical error, or overall weak play, that cost the game.
shareYeah, the word goat has come to mean a lot of things. But when I was growing up, it wasn't a good thing. This carried over into the show Survivor where the goat was always the expendable turd you brought to the end with you who wouldn't get any votes. Now all the sudden it means the exact opposite. Super weird.
shareProbably derived from "scapegoat", who is the person who gets unjustly blamed for some sort of failure.
Which some people believed was derived from animal sacrifice, the ancient practice of killing an animal and telling each other than sin died with it.
Yeah, I remember Charlie Brown saying he was sick of being the goat, and not the good way
shareThere was an entire story arc about Charlie Brown being called the "goat" after he caught a fly ball and then dropped it. See the June 9 through June 19 strips: https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/June_1958_comic_strips
shareThat's exactly what it was!
sharethis is what i think of when hearing it.
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shareSo for years you've actually thought all those actors/sports stars/musicians were being compared to farmyard animals?
shareI had to google it a little while ago when it just started popping up nonsensically all over the place.
shareAt one time, "Goat" definitely had a negative meaning in sports, or at least in baseball.
shareThere was an entire story arc about Charlie Brown being called the "goat" after he caught a fly ball and then dropped it. See the June 9 through June 19 strips: https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/June_1958_comic_strips
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