what is the greatest sport?

[Ihaguitar]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

Ice.

Ice hockey isnt real hockey.

[The exploding boy]

One shouldnt even have to make the precision. Only europeans make a distinction.


As i said before here we have hockey and summer practice.

[Ihaguitar]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

I think i could have easy access to a tennis court nearly every place ive lived. Including working class neighborhoods. Even back home in my shit boonies hometown there was also a tennis court. They're pretty cheap to build. And really aside from the racket, playing tennis will cost you next to nothing. Except for all your sweat.

You need balls, too. I do wish they'd build more tennis courts in the UK. Perhaps it's because of our shit weather.

We do have a lot of people playing badminton in the UK. Does that even get played in the US?

[hnibos]

Skating around on ice is so goofy. What a silly sport.

[Ihaguitar]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

One shouldnt even have to make the precision. Only europeans make a distinction.


As i said before here we have hockey and summer practice.

Really? field hockey is much better to watch. Especially the women's.

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by hnibos

Skating around on ice is so goofy. What a silly sport.

Take it back.

Hipsters who love soccer but can't appreciate hockey are so bewildering to me. Just looking for an excuse to go to a "European" pub at odd hours.

[Eulogy]

Not to get all fuzzyroes on you but yeah

[Ihaguitar]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

Take it back.

Hipsters who love soccer but can't appreciate hockey are so bewildering to me. Just looking for an excuse to go to a "European" pub at odd hours.

If you called a football fan a "hipster" in the UK you'd get a stiff kick-in.

[The exploding boy]

Originally Posted by Ihaguitar

You need balls, too. I do wish they'd build more tennis courts in the UK. Perhaps it's because of our shit weather.

We do have a lot of people playing badminton in the UK. Does that even get played in the US?

I played badminton in gym class. It was frequent then. And i like it too. I mean its like easy tennis. You can take two people who are kinda rubbish at it an still have fun. I mean i know there's pros at it but what i'm saying is it's very easy to pick up and play. you can still play it even if you don't have any technique. I kinda wish it was more popular. It's one sport i could see myself casually playing.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

This is absolutely false.

how would you know?

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

how would you know?

I played soccer at a fairly competitive level and I follow college football rabidly. That statement is insane.

[Eulogy]

I'm not making a value judgment. I love soccer. But yeah, no. It is at its heart very basic. Which is why it's universally loved.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

And people who drone on and on about how awesome soccer is while they ignore hockey are infuriating.

It's the same goddamn game.

lol it is most assuredly not

you dont know ANYTHING about football tactics


i know more abt football tactics than any american on this board i wager

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Ihaguitar

If you called a football fan a "hipster" in the UK you'd get a stiff kick-in.

I'm not in the UK.

[The exploding boy]

Originally Posted by Ihaguitar

If you called a football fan a "hipster" in the UK you'd get a stiff kick-in.

most football fans here would be most likely called..... immigrants. Or sons and daughters of....

[Trotskilicious]

im always a hipster

[Ihaguitar]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

most football fans here would be most likely called..... immigrants. Or sons and daughters of....

Most canadians are immigrants, or sons and daughters of...

[Eulogy]

I wanna start playing raquetball. Like tennis without having to run after the ball. And without people being able to watch you.

Tennis is wonderful but I'm probably really rusty.

[The exploding boy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

im always a hipster

but you know hockey is a good sport

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

lol it is most assuredly not

you dont know ANYTHING about football tactics


i know more abt football tactics than any american on this board i wager

lol ok

[Eulogy]

I don't know anything about a game I played for 15 years nonstop. Trots knows because he turned on fox sports 1 a couple times.

[Ihaguitar]

How can ice hockey and football be the same game? One uses a ball, the other uses a puck. One is on grass and the other ice. One has 11 players in a team and the other has 6. I'm bored now but you get the idea.

[The exploding boy]

Originally Posted by Ihaguitar

Most canadians are immigrants, or sons and daughters of...

Well yes but pretty far down. My ancestors left france in the 1600's....

I mean your ancestors are likely not native from the UK if you go back far enough you know...at one point it stops counting.

[Trotskilicious]

you made the claim that a sport played on an ice rink with five people on skates is the same as eleven men on a gigantic pitch. read about formations, yoy can play a sport and not grasp its tactics

[Eulogy]

They're functionally very, very similar games.

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

you made the claim that a sport played on an ice rink with five people on skates is the same as eleven men on a gigantic pitch. read about formations, yoy can play a sport and not grasp its tactics

I don't need to read about formations. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[Trotskilicious]

i mean saying hockey and soccer are the same really makes it seem like you didnt even engage with the game

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

i mean saying hockey and soccer are the same really makes it seem like you didnt even engage with the game

What the shit

Hockey is just a faster paced miniaturized version of the same game.

[Trotskilicious]

and eventually youll have to realize that people who dont get a winter dont really give a fuck about winter sports

[Eulogy]

People on a rectangular playing surface trying to get a ball or puck into a goal.