When you lose to the team that has the worst owner in football, does that make your owner the worst owner in football, your general manager the worst assembler of talent in football?īecause if Jim Zorn has to answer one more question about his job security, it's time to also hold the coach's players and his superiors accountable for this dumpster fire - this abomination of a loss.
#DUMPSTER FIRE PRO#
If you lose to the worst team in pro football, does that make you the worst team in pro football? The earliest purely metaphorical use that I've found is Mike Wise, " A Debacle From Top To Bottom", Washington Post :
10- Florida has not had a show like this since the last Dumpster fire went cold after the fight for Elian Gonzalez. … where there was no evidence that the officers conducting the search were ever in danger and where there was no showing that a dumpster fire and window-breaking incident that occurred during the officer's absence was in any way related to the dormitory search or the abandonment of post.Īs in that case, dumpster fires are often set on purpose - presumably that's partly because some kinds of refuse are easy to set on fire, and partly because of a perception that setting fire to refuse containers is less dangerous to people and property than setting fire to buildings is.Īnd in 2000, Rick Brago used the concept of purposeful Dumpster fires as a point of comparison for the chaotic spectacle associated with the Florida vote-counting circus in the 2000 presidential election (" COUNTING THE VOTE: STREET THEATER South Florida Immersed In Another Media Circus", NYT ): The Dempster Dumpmaster, which became the first successful front-loading garbage truck that used this system, popularized the word.Īnd ever since there have been dumpsters, there have been dumpster fires - though the first uses of that specific phrase that I've found is in a legal text from 1972: The containers were called Dumpsters, a portmanteau of the company's name with the word dump. The word "dumpster", first used commercially in 1936, came from the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically loading the contents of standardized containers onto garbage trucks, which was patented by Dempster Brothers in 1935. Wikipedia explains the origins of the word dumpster: John Shazar, " Mike Corbat: Citigroup Not The Raging Dumpster Fire You Think It Is", Dealbreaker Greg Wyshynski, " Dallas Stars goaltending exposed as smoldering dumpster fire so now what?", Yahoo Sports Ĭorey Hutchins, " Colorado’s ‘dumpster fire’ politics", The Colorado Independent ĭavid Rosenthal, " Why The Dodgers Can Never Win With That Dumpster Fire They Call A Bullpen", CBS Los Angeles. Klaus Marre, " Sheldon Adelson’s Newspaper Is a Dumpster Fire", And recently the usage seems to have spread to other domains and become more popular: The dumpster fire also appeared to have been set on purpose.A few years ago, I noticed hosts and callers on sports talk radio using the phrase "dumpster fire" as a metaphor for chaotically bad situations. ( The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal) Odom has a football team with question marks but had the added challenges of social unrest on campus within the last year and his AD, Mack Rhoades, departing Missouri for the dumpster fire at Baylor within the last 24 hours. They described the brash real estate mogul with words like “intolerant,” “greedy,” mean-spirited,” “fascist,” “outrageous,” “a dumpster fire,” “narcissist,” “media whore,” “unstable,” “repulsive” and “bat shit crazy.” ( The Huffington Post) Miller: Only way to save the Angels’ dumpster fire of a season is trying to restock the farm system through trades ( The Orange County Register)
In an email obtained Thursday by The Daily Advertiser, LHSAA Executive Director Eddie Bonine gives a bleak appraisal of the current state of the LHSAA to the NFHS in his report on high school athletics in Louisiana, calling the organization a “proverbial dumpster fire.” ( The Advertiser) This year’s presidential race, which already has been compared to a dumpster fire more times than any other political battle in memory, could break a more serious record in November. Dumpster fire may also be used in the literal sense to mean a fire in a trash dumpster. Dumpster fire is primarily used in American English, as the word dumpster is primarily an American English term. The term dumpster fire has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
#DUMPSTER FIRE MOVIE#
Many believe that it was first used on American sports talk radio around 2009, though a 2003 movie review in The Arizona Republic uses the term to mean something “stinky but insignificant”. The origin of the term dumpster fire is uncertain. Dumpster fire describes a situation that is already a mess, then is made worse by being set afire, figuratively. Dumpster fire describes a situation which has been terribly mishandled, resulting in a disastrously chaotic outcome.