💬 When did this change to home vs visitor instead of visitor vs home?

[planomateo]

Silly question I know, but damn I'm wondering when this changed.

I've noticed this alot recently from various team twitter feeds. Did I miss the memo on a change in how the home team wasn't the 2nd team or is this just a case of someone not knowing the home team should be the last team?

 

[TerryP]

Silly question I know, but damn I'm wondering when this changed.

I've noticed this alot recently from various team twitter feeds.

You saw that for the basketball game against UT and the softball tweet the other day as well?

 

[planomateo]

If I were honest, I'd tell you it gets under my skin a bit. How does this make it through QA/approval?

It's not just Alabama that's doing it either, plenty of other university twitter accounts are sending these out.

In all seriousness, did this change and I'm the dumbass? Surely I'm not the only person who's noticed this...

 

[OldPlayer]

It depends on the context. Notices sent by the school (that includes the location of the event) can be done either way (Home vs. Visitors or Visitors vs. Home). If a third party posts the event (TV schedules), it's usually visitors vs. home.

 

[bama alum]

Today's baseball announcement:

 

[planomateo]

My opinion, it should always be away team vs home team.

3 different schools with home vs away.

#OffseasonThread

 

[OldPlayer]

If the school is promoting it, you never want to give the visiting school top billing.

 

[planomateo]

I just want consistency...

 

[bama alum]

Bama won in both gymnastics and baseball. BOOM!

 

[TerryP]

Surely I'm not the only person who's noticed this...

No. I think it was a volleyball game last year where I first noticed it listed that way. I know it was the weekend before the men played Dayton in Coleman.

It depends on the context.

My opinion, it should always be away team vs home team

Offense. Offence. One an American spelling, the other European.

Home vs Away or Away vs Home. It's the same thing. One is how it's listed in the States, the other is how you'll see it listed in your European countries. Your writers that work for major publications--NYT, WP, AP--and are covering stories read worldwide (IE: an international sporting event) are instructed to list the home team first and the away team second. That doesn't apply to all countries, but a vast majority and that's why it's listed that way for international events. Look up come Euro soccer scores and you'll see home first.

**I can't recall what class it was, but I do recall the day we had this subject. The prof's theory, and it makes perfect sense to me, is it's done this way in the States largely due to baseball and the home team batting last. It was a pretty fascinating class that day.