Sports: Search and Destroy

Swamp Buggy Racing!

I was always rubbish at all sport except a little bit of long distance (to the chippie) running and skiing. I think my skill in skiing came from the fact that at its heart it is just trying to stand up. As noted on another thread, I rarely fall over.

Wrestling for being the nu ballet and nu circus/freak show all rolled into one

all non compettetive outdoor pursuits walking, climbing, canoeing

destroy: rowing training 5 times a week at school (I did win a medal and a pewter tankard though)

Pete did claim he could run 800m in under 2 minutes but we all laughed so hard we didn't have the energy to test this preposterous claim.

I don't do sport, it is unladylike.

When you bump into a mate down the pub and they say "want to come back for the last session of the snooker" you can feel you have made a mistep in life.

Destroy: Football (american version), televised Golf, professional basketball -- and by extension the zone defense, Sumo, FoxTrax, Curling, Fox Hunting/equestrian/autoracing and any sport that involves something else doing the moving for you... and cricket, probably. Ballroom Dancing and synch. swimming.

Destroy: "extreme" sports (all painfully dull on TV), esp. skateboarding tossers, all "sports" w/ no objective scoring system, eg. skateboarding, synchronized swimming, dressage - those aren't sports, just people moving about.

You need to know that Mansfield are nicknamed the Stags and Germany won the men's double sculls at the 1988 Olympics (did they? I may be wrong) to win on quiz machines, obviously.

I believe that Pete can run 800m in under 2 minutes. Sport is all about boasting even when you're shit. That and mercilessly hacking the shit out of your Shenchenko shirt-wearing, constantly shoulder-dropping, Steve McManaman-loving Liverpool fan friend in a friendly kickabout. Little bastard.

I love one sport, enjoy another. BUT I think I understand why people 'don't like sport'. It's easy to dislike sport, and once you are, so to speak, on the outside of it, it seems neither easy nor appealing to get back in. One problem that non-sport people have with sport = sporting 'culture'. Naff taste - cliché-fests - gender stereotypes - way excessive pay for top stars - seeming colonization of media schedules / pages. From the outside, sport looks like a pretty bad job. But those of us who are, from one contingency or another, on the inside (ie. are very enthused fans of one or more sports), tend to look at it differently: seeing those bad things but still loving something fundamental about the game in question.

Also, 'bad' things can be good. Greatest pleasure in footy - silly things that commentators say.

I remember once seeing a trailer for upcoming attractions on SkySports, and among all the usual was a small clip for a game tha looked very much like Volleyball, except it was played much like football i.e. with feet(!).

Now, what I've wanted to now since I saw that brief clip around 2 years ago is whether it was a bizarre hoax, or is actually real. Bear in mind that this clip contained someone doing an overhead kick, over a concrete floor.

Search:Any recent English cricket win....rare enough for even DG not to moan!

Just realised I've only talked about watching sports, so that just goes to prove how unsporting I am, always hated PE at school, would only play football, dreaded the summer when we had to do atheletics (running around the field and getting a stitch)...So my destroy is Athletics...

Destroy: Football: It has taken over the world and it is a worse place for it. Rugby: Anyone who likes it has obviously never played the damn game.

Bill

Now I'm embaressed for knowing far too much about wrestling

That's my reason for not being a sports fan right there. I just don't understand why anyone cares that much. Perhaps it's because I'm dead inside.

Destroy: Fucking soccer.

Classic - '80's ESPN, where late nights they used to fill out their schedule with shit like tractor pulling, lumberjack competitions, mudbog racing, indoor lacrosse, and Australian Rules football

Aside from the lacrosse, this describes my brother's life to a T.

-- Ally (garance8...), July 11th, 2001.

Ha ha!

To play:

Search: soccer(!), tennis, baseball, softball, squash, sailing, fishing, skiing

Destroy: racquetball, golf, equitation, swimming, motorboating, jet skiing, water skiing, scuba diving, running (really anything aerobic that has no equipment)

Oh what am I saying. I like all sports any I will play any sport. I am a sporting fule!

Destroy: Teams from the New York area [Mets, Yankees, Knicks, Giants, Jets, Metro-Stars, St.Johns, Columbia, Long Island University] ... and Notre Dame

Search: Cute New Zealand bowlers named Daniel Vettori:
http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2002/sep/23vet.jpg

Destrory: The rest of cricket.

watching so many sports the last few days! got some t.v. package via PS4 and boy oh boy it was kind of a great time to do so.

watched: swimming trials, triathlon in sweden, formula one electric race in london, tour de france, wimbledon, funny car/stock drag races, nascar, france -vs- iceland soccer, MLB at Fort Bragg last night...

and probably other stuff too.

it all looks so pretty.

it's a novelty. haven't had cable for years.

Jesus sports is great wha

Watching, participating, analysing, discussing, reading, pondering

I mean fuck how good is sports tho rly

Statements, which is more true

Sport channels aggression positively and saves society from potential violence

Sport is a net cause of aggression and increases violence within society

Sport is human activity and human activity contains the potential for amplification of all human traits including aggression. If sports weren't the obvious conduit then another activity would turn into a charnel house, karaoke murders would become a thing or something

lol probably the latter tbh

I veer that way myself alright

(non-participatory) sports are a deeply exploitative caricature of late capitalism and misallocation of resources

i still like most of 'em

Wait what are non participatory sports
Oh wait is that just noncompetitive

sport is innate in all human beings but technology and modern life has crippled us into being sedentary

A hip high tackle from a fella nicknamed tyson actually crippled me into being sedentary

Nicknamed tyson ffs. You'd think I'd have fucking seen that one coming.

i have nothing bad to say about sports where you personally score a goal ffs

dmac

i kno u hate philosophy but one of my favourite philosophy profs talked about how sport can explain a lot of philosophical concepts quite nicely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_sport

shit dmac sorry to hear

kinda feeling myself being crippled but due to old age

the body doesn't move like it used to

i'm guessing that at least half of my dreams involve me playing various sports, generally either really well or really badly

it's ripe for metaphor

Few and far between since tyson unforch

I don't know if I disagree about the noncompetitive tbh.

I play a good bit but have always hated the guys who put the serious consequences faces on about an oddnumbers stagger about a field on a Sunday morning

Watching sport at a high level would definitely lose a lot without that edge though

And is there an argument that competitive sport teaches kids how to lose (every competitive activity produces more losers than winners so it's a life skill worth having)

xp I will read that also I'm not actually crippled I just don't score as many goals ffs

since i got that pain in my balls due to a strained groin my body in general has started feeling weird little shots of pain everywhere

slowly getting back at it has actually helped

have always hated the guys who put the serious consequences faces

tru

as I narrow down the things in life that have genuine meaning I find sports to be tenacious

that's how a groin strain feels like too

Nobody will believe this but when Tyson took me out he actually shouted 'for the parish!'

can't believe you got knocked out by a Tyson tbh

u shd write a short novel abt the galway fives community. add that to lg's nultations and my own ahem second novel harrumph which might be somewhat about sport aaachoo and we have ourselves a miniature movement idk think about it sall

Sport is human activity and human activity contains the potential for amplification of all human traits including aggression. If sports weren't the obvious conduit then another activity would turn into a charnel house, karaoke murders would become a thing or something

Sorry, I know this is all 30 minutes ago and not even the subject of the thread but damn:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_killings

(i) I knew someone would
(ii) I knew that someone would be you