00:00Out of roughly 170,000 words in the English language, have you always wondered why football
00:07quarterbacks say, HUT! I mean, they could have picked anything. Pineapple! But nope, for more
00:12than a century, generations of quarterbacks have stood in front of millions of people and
00:17enthusiastically shouted, HUT! Which sounds less like a football command and more like your
00:21grandpa getting up from the couch. HUT! So where exactly did HUT come from? Well, historians think
00:29it probably evolved from military drill commands. And HUT! HUT is sharp. It's impossible to
00:36stretch into a sentence, and you can't accidentally keep talking after it. Quarterbacks have developed
00:41all kinds of elaborate pre-snap chatter. Some sound like color swatches. Blue 42! Some
00:47like airline destinations. Omaha! Every cadence ends the same way. HUT! Because after all these
00:52years, it's still one of the quickest, cleanest sounds the human mouth can make. It's the
00:58Always Wondered Podcast.
