what is the greatest sport?

[slunken]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

All generally goes well until they invariably pick the wrong man to hunt. And become the hunted.

pretty good game afaik

Guys do you really not recognize when mayfuck is being funny, not trolling? That post was clearly a joke

[slunken]

i thought the only people that didn't get it were eulogy and pavementtune fwiw

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Aeris Hilton

Guys do you really not recognize when mayfuck is being funny, not trolling? That post was clearly a joke

Who cares

He sucks

[Trotskilicious]

pretty much

[The exploding boy]

Originally Posted by slunken

i thought the only people that didn't get it were eulogy and pavementtune fwiw

Pave gets it. But julio is gonna get punched regardless if he sticks with that angle of teasing.

[duovamp]

[vixnix]

Cycling is another good one that nobody has mentioned. And running. They're pretty basic and anyone can do them. I mean if you can afford steroids, etc.

My Dad used to cycle 40km a day, to work and back, so we all ended up being cyclists, in my family. Being half-Samoan and a cyclist in my teens meant that knee high boots never stood a chance.

I found out later that even ballet dancers find it hard to fit knee high boots. So that made me feel better.

But in terms of playing and watching, it's still gotta be cricket.

[vixnix]

Also, here's a comparison of rugby player vs american football player:



So yes, U.S. football players are bigger, heavier and stronger - but they barely move. And they're no faster.

U.S. football is rubbish, basically. It's barely a sport. It's basically a dogfighting/lottery system for genetically suitable lower class males.

[Eulogy]

Wow

[Eulogy]

You can be really gross, you know that?

[Eulogy]

Also people have such weird inferiority complexes about american football. I don't get it.

[vixnix]

wut? inferiority complexes??? Even living in countries my whole life that didn't follow the sport, the stories of what happens to these football players when they retire rich, elicits nothing but sympathy for them and their families.

Basically white middle class people fight big lower class boys against each other with a ball and some padding, and other middle class people make a living out of the advertising revenue.

If anything's gross here, it's U.S. football.

[vixnix]

cricket, on the other hand - in countries where it is played, is played across all social strata, and has a huge following both in terms of audiences and grass roots players and clubs. And it has a very low incidence of life threatening injuries.

[Eulogy]

What the fuck are you talking about

[vixnix]

do you suffer from some kind of comprehension disability or something

[Lucky Day Spa]

eulogy you do seem more belligerent and judgmental than usual today, is everything okay

[Eulogy]

I'm a little tired and cranky. And it's really warm in my apartment for some reason.

None of this changes the fact that vixnix is being gross.

[Lucky Day Spa]

this rings kinda true doesn't it?

Originally Posted by vixnix

Basically white middle class people fight big lower class boys against each other with a ball and some padding, and other middle class people make a living out of the advertising revenue.

If anything's gross here, it's U.S. football.

[Lucky Day Spa]

well, except for middle class people making a living off advertising revenue, those people are rich

[Eulogy]

You could say that about literally any sport

[Eulogy]

Also the imagery of "fighting boys against each other" when we are dealing with adult men who are paid for their work is bizarre. It's not cockfighting.

[vixnix]

Emotionally and cognitively they're boys. They're groomed from when they're adolescents, and don't ever enter a proper adulthood where they get paid a normal salary for a normal day's work. They're no more adults than Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, etc.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by vixnix

U.S. football is rubbish, basically. It's barely a sport. It's basically a dogfighting/lottery system for genetically suitable lower class males.

so you're calling black people dogs

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

Also people have such weird inferiority complexes about american football. I don't get it.

it's a shitty brutish sport for a shitty brutish country

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Lucky Day Spa

well, except for middle class people making a living off advertising revenue, those people are rich

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by vixnix

Emotionally and cognitively they're boys. They're groomed from when they're adolescents, and don't ever enter a proper adulthood where they get paid a normal salary for a normal day's work. They're no more adults than Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, etc.

it's like anything else, painting with broad strokes is basically foolish

there's plenty of grownups that play football, take this fella.

My paper, A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector..., has been published in the Journal of Computational Mathematics

— John Urschel (@MathMeetsFball) March 18, 2015

you could say any sport or entertainment coddles people and lets them stay children and you are right it definitely works in that capacity but thre's an old us army saying "if you're a shithead going in, you'll be a shithead coming out." don't pretend there aren't cricketteers that aren't children, oafs, otherwise uncouth for your bourgeoisie sensibilities.

[Lucky Day Spa]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

i pasted the image url into google image search and i learned all about a rich racist guy, thanks very much for that t-lish

[Trotskilicious]

he's a complete piece of shit

started in advertising

if you're so inclined this is a long read but

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/a...-to-dan-snyder

[Trotskilicious]

$25: Price Snyder charged for a special group of standing-room-only tickets at FedExField in 2008. The cheap tickets were linked to the high-priced suites; lobbying watchdogs said Snyder was merely attempting to skirt congressional gift limits. Damning evidence: A team brochure for instructing ticket sales personnel to explain lobbying loopholes to suite customers. Snyder denied the charge. SRO tickets now sell for $152.50, with no mention of lobbying in the sales pitch.