I’ve decided to start referring to good things happening in fours as “a Bundy.” As in Al Bundy scoring four touchdowns in a single game. Sure, the meaning behind four touchdowns in a single game has been somewhat diluted and turned into something of a joke thanks to seasons of Married… With Children, but the fact of the matter is that four touchdowns in a single game is an extraordinarily difficult task to accomplish.
Looking at the list of all-time single game records in the NFL (before it turned to shit), there are literally a single handful of guys who have managed to score five touchdowns in a single game, and slightly more guys who have managed to score four touchdowns in a single game.
Bundys.
Whereas thanks to hockey, the phrase “hat trick” has become the phrase synonymous with three scores, I’d like to see “a Bundy” become the unofficial-official slang terminology for four scores.
Marshawn Lynch rushing for three TDs is a hat trick. Running up the score with a fourth is a Bundy. Whenever Alexander Ovechkin scores three times, that’s a hat trick. Scoring a fourth would give him a Bundy. Giancarlo Stanton crushes three home runs for the hat trick, but the fourth immortalizes him with a Bundy.
It can even be used ironically, like when BJ Upton steps to the plate with already a hat trick of strikeouts, and Clayton Kershaw gets him looking at the perfect curveball for number four, that’s, a Bundy.
Let’s face it, hat tricks in most valid applications aren’t that easy to get in their own right, but a Bundy would be that much more prestigious, rare, and most importantly, awesome.
Just like Al Bundy and MWC were.
