This comment and thread reminds me of a funny and true (i heard it with my own ears) anecdote in the field of cricket commentary.
Up in the box with a famous commentator was a guest, an ex cricketer of renown who had been a Battle of Britain pilot.I.E another god.
He got a bit uptight about the continual comments of "pressure" the players were supposedly under.
Finally - he retorted - "Pressure you wouldn't know what pressure was until you had a Messerschmidt up yer ar*e".
It had the necessary salutary effect.