I was watching an evening San Francisco Giants game. Barry Bonds skied one to the upper deck--a homer for sure--until 'Pinggg', it hit the foul pole. So now, 'doink' has company (if sound is what we're after) ..
That 1986 Giants-Bears doink being the origin point for Madden's callout is such a perfect detail. The whole "posters" terminology from early football rules is wild too, like how they just borrowed that straight from rugby. I never realized kicks hitting the post used to be live balls back in 1882, which means you could literaly turn a missed field goal into a touchdown off the rebound.
There was a period in which teams scored TD, picked up a few points, and deliberately missed the kick so they could recover it for another TD. That also meant the ref stopped the clock during the kick attempt and restarted it if they missed the kick. That changed in 1892 when a missed kick led to a kickoff from the 55 yard line.
Mad Magazine's Don Martin may have first coined the term: Mad #96, July 1965, page 36.
There were others before that imitating the sound of two objects hitting, though I would prefer the Mad Magazine version if it were true.
I was watching an evening San Francisco Giants game. Barry Bonds skied one to the upper deck--a homer for sure--until 'Pinggg', it hit the foul pole. So now, 'doink' has company (if sound is what we're after) ..
A 1986 article I came across had Chris Berman using doink as the sound of a baseball hitting the foul pole. One man's ping is another man's doink.
That 1986 Giants-Bears doink being the origin point for Madden's callout is such a perfect detail. The whole "posters" terminology from early football rules is wild too, like how they just borrowed that straight from rugby. I never realized kicks hitting the post used to be live balls back in 1882, which means you could literaly turn a missed field goal into a touchdown off the rebound.
There was a period in which teams scored TD, picked up a few points, and deliberately missed the kick so they could recover it for another TD. That also meant the ref stopped the clock during the kick attempt and restarted it if they missed the kick. That changed in 1892 when a missed kick led to a kickoff from the 55 yard line.
The WWF used to have a wrestler named Doink (he was outfitted like a clown)- that's the only use of the word I have heard of before this article.
I came across him when doing the newspaper search, so I excluded articles that included the word 'clown.'