rantingredneck said:
If you are being serious, start a thread and I'll be glad to debate it with you. Maybe we can get someone else to try to argue for figureskating and someone else for darts and poker.
The Confabulation Thread - Part 2
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If you are being serious, start a thread and I'll be glad to debate it with you. Maybe we can get someone else to try to argue for figureskating and someone else for darts and poker.
They do have both those on Fox SportsEison said:If you are being serious, start a thread and I'll be glad to debate it with you. Maybe we can get someone else to try to argue for figureskating and someone else for darts and poker.
According to an old George Carlin bit that I can only half remember there are only three sports: Baseball, Football, and Basketball. Everything else is just a game or an activity.......I wish I could find that bit somewhere it was hilarious.......
rantingredneck said:
I know the one you are talking about it is on my "yahoo radio" playlist so I hear it at work sometimes.
I'd add about a dozen or so more to his list but not nearly the amount of things most people want to give credit to as being a real sport.
Newk said:
no. it's an artform
Eison said:ESPN used to show professional wrestling, but that doesn't mean it is a sport either.
"Sport" or not, many wrestlers are better athletes than you'll find in baseball, football etc. And they do their thing 300 plus days out of the year.
boring to watch that is. I'll never understand why people enjoy watching someone else play a sport or game. I understand wanting to play the sport or game yourself but to sit and watch someone else play I don't get it
I don't get itDiscord said:
I agree but figure skaters and ballerinas can also be better "athletes" than some baseball or football players. But what they do isn't a sport either.
I know ESPN used to show the old World Class shows from mid Texas, Von Erich territory. Early 80's stuff from when Jimmy and Patty Garvin were there. Maybe even earlier than Patty, he might've had Sunshine with him then.
Kyp said:All sports/games are boring to me
Kyp said:boring to watch that is. I'll never understand why people enjoy watching someone else play a sport or game. I understand wanting to play the sport or game yourself but to sit and watch someone else play
Think about all the crap you rent from blockbuster why would you want to sit and watch someone do that **** either? :lol:
Eison said:
I remember when I was a little kid, I'd be watching wrestling and my grandma would come thru the house and stop, stare at the tv all disqusted and say, "I dunno why you wanna watch that ****...... IT AIN'T REAL!!!"
Then I'd come thru later and she'd be watching Clint Eastwood blowing some guy's head off with his Magnum and I'd say.... "I dunno why you wanna watch that ****.... IT AIN'T REAL."
Then she'd beat my ****!
:D
(true story)
Because I can't just make a movie on my ownEison said:
I could go play a sport if I want. Given if I want to play a entire game of baseball or basketball etc.. you need to get enough people but I could go down to a batting cages or health club to shoot some hoops, go to the Hockey arena to shoot some pucks around etc...
If I take my camcorder to the park and rig up some pyrotechnics I'm going to jail
Discord said:Nah... figureskaters and ballerinas are just over active hairdressers.
Abdullah the Butcher is an ATHLETE!
:D
:D at truly a world class level :D
Kyp said:Because I can't just make a movie on my own
I could go play a sport if I want. Given if I want to play a entire game of baseball or basketball etc.. you need to get enough people but I could go down to a batting cages or health club to shoot some hoops, go to the Hockey arena to shoot some pucks around etc...
If I take my camcorder to the park and rig up some pyrotechnics I'm going to jail
You are closer to making your own movie than being able to play at the smae level as any pro-athlete. Or for that matter actually doing whatever they are pretending to do in the movie itself than say being Michael Jordan or Brett Farve.
You just don't like real people is all it is.
Discord said:
Yeah I never got the whole "it's not real" argument by people who don't like or get it. My reponse to that since I was about 10 has been "no ****, neither is anything else on tv".
