So do you like sports?

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Originally Posted by Its a Plant

lol I dont know where to disect first...okay..here goes:

there are lots of injuries in soccer, like broken legs and cuts to the eyelid..(just what have happened to me), so you cant just say players dont get serious injuries.

Second off, its, in my mind, the perfect team sport. 11 players striving together for that common goal : the back of the net. It so exciting to play/ and even better when you net one yourself. millions of people all over the world can't be that stupid, can they??

just thought id throw in my 2 cents.

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Yeah that is the one thing I can appreciate about soccer, its simplicity. 11 people and 1 ball. That is probably part of why it is so big all over the world. There is really no equipment to buy. Just a ball and thatâ??s it, maybe a good pair of shoes. Anyone one without any money at all can play soccer.

Also Iâ??m sure there are lots of strategies involved, I know about that from playing FIFA on Xbox lol. But seriously I find it just so incredibly boring to watch. Like I said I would stick with Rally!!

I dont watch team sports...like football...or cricket....
....im more into extreme sports....skateboarding etc etc

i voted the black hair one....because i happen to have nearly black hair...:)

basketball and football is where its at...watching and playing

golf is fun but only when youre playing, not watching.

LOL this reminded me of George Carlin :D:D

Baseball is different from any other sport, very different. For instance, in most sports you score points or goals; in baseball you score runs. In most sports the ball, or object, is put in play by the offensive team; in baseball the defensive team puts the ball in play, and only the defense is allowed to touch the ball. In fact, in baseball if an offensive player touches the ball intentionally, he's out; sometimes unintentionally, he's out.

Also: in football,basketball, soccer, volleyball, and all sports played with a ball, you score with the ball and in baseball the ball prevents you from scoring.

In most sports the team is run by a coach; in baseball the team is run by a manager. And only in baseball does the manager or coach wear the same clothing the players do. If you'd ever seen John Madden in his Oakland Raiders uniform,you'd know the reason for this custom.

Now, I've mentioned football. Baseball & football are the two most popular spectator sports in this country. And as such, it seems they ought to be able to tell us something about ourselves and our values.

I enjoy comparing baseball and football:

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.
Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park.The baseball park!
Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

In football you wear a helmet.
In baseball you wear a cap.

Football is concerned with downs - what down is it?
Baseball is concerned with ups - who's up?

In football you receive a penalty.
In baseball you make an error.

In football the specialist comes in to kick.
In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.

Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness.
Baseball has the sacrifice.

Football is played in any kind of weather: rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog...
In baseball, if it rains, we don't go out to play.

Baseball has the seventh inning stretch.
Football has the two minute warning.

Baseball has no time limit: we don't know when it's gonna end - might have extra innings.
Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we've got to go to sudden death.

In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling; emotions may run high or low, but there's not too much unpleasantness.
In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you're capable of taking the life of a fellow human being.

And finally, the objectives of the two games are completely different:

In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

Yeah thats an old classic. It's funny but I love both Football and Baseball!

I like sport. Real sport with huge grown fat men in tight spandex beating each other up. Or some might call it WRESTLING.

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basketball

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Originally Posted by Harvesthetic

I like to practice sports.

Watching it is concealed homo-erotic behaviour.

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i concur.

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Originally Posted by Whos Carl

I like sport. Real sport with huge grown fat men in tight spandex beating each other up. Or some might call it WRESTLING.

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i concur again.

I like scrolling through these threads just to see how many people think how great their sport is and how weak other ones are.

Let's ask the most dominant team in the history of team sports.


The New York Yankees.