"Chippy"

I just got done watching the Pitt-Cinci game and from the warmups there was a lot of jawing going on with Burfict of the Bengals butting helmets with a Steeler. These teams plain DO NOT like each other with all injuries and bad blood and it's apparent. All the announcers were saying the game was going to be "chippy". WTH, is that the new politically correct term 'cause "smash mouth", "bad blood", "hate each other" is just to extreme in announcing now!?

Well the announcers had to keep using "chippy" the entire game. These teams came to play, there were punches and hard hits from the outset. The refs were about to lose control but fortunately got the game somewhat under control. Somewhat, they were still playing smash mouth ball.

The whole thing seemed so silly, guys were out there knocking the living snot outta each other and they keep saying how "chippy" the game was, I'm pretty sure they even started giggling at the term before long over how ridiculous it sounded.

Were any other games called in this manner?

The definition of chippy is "aggressively belligerent and marked by much fighting."

I didn't see the game, only the highlights, but it sounds like an accurate description. Chippy is used by hockey announcers a lot when a game is marred by a lot of fights.

Chippy is not a new word. They use that term a lot in hockey games.

As an individual who identifies as Sciuridae-American, I find the term "chippy" offensive.

Please try to be more considerate.

Heard the term for a while now, although mostly in hockey.

My guess about the origin: Someone who’s aggressive and belligerent is sometimes described as “having a chip on his shoulder,” taunting his opponent to dare to try to knock it off.

From urbandictionary.com :

Chippy

1. The place where one buys fish and chips.

2. a female prostitute, especially a young and inexpensive one.

4. (adjective) applied to hockey games: rough, involving lost tempers, fighting, and ejections.

6. California Highway Patrol officers, CHPs, a term often used by truckers to warn each other that the highway patrol is about.

7. Chippies refer to money put together by multiple people in order to by drugs or alcohol. (for the most part weed)

Haha!! One would never want to offend the likes of Simon, Alvin, and Theodore.