Excerpt from 'Every Day I Fight': Stuart Scott explains the power of his unique use of words

Posted Feb 7, 2016
Remember, the roots of Boo-yah! were back in Winston-Salem, when Fred's neighbor, Mr. G, the oldhead who made bamboo chairs, used it once to describe how loud the previous night's thunder had been. From then on, we'd say it when someone brought a different kind of thunder on the field or court. A slam dunk in your face? Boo-yah! A blindside flattening of the QB? Boo-yah! (ESPN.com)

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