Folklore
He is affectionately known for his on-air gaffes. He is so adept at spouting clichés, mispronouncing names, and generally making senseless comments, that the satirical magazine Private Eye named its sports bloopers column Colemanballs – a word conceived by Coleman himself – in his honour. The gaffe that started it all off, a description of the Cuban 400m and 800m gold medalist, Alberto Juantorena who "just opened his legs wide and showed us all his class"" was actually said not by Coleman but his colleague Ron Pickering.
Coleman was mentioned in the Trailer sketch of the Monty Python's Flying Circus episode Archaeology Today where the voice-over by Eric Idle states at the end of the sketch showing Coleman with ... And for those of you who don't like television there's David Coleman. And of course there'll be sport. But now for something completely different – sport.
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