As I was browsing around for articles on tonights Bengals/Ravens game I ran across this article and this quote.
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../
"I mean, this isn't a soft sport. We don't play chess. This isn't swimming. This isn't one of those kind of sports. It's football. It takes a man to play this game, and to play this game you have to have passion.''
I had to laugh.
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Having played both, I have a nuetral view.
Swimming is a soft sport. Look around see who the swimmers are, anyone can do it. You got 65 year old ladies swimming laps. thats not hard.
What about the college swimmers training their ass off? That is very repectful and extremely hard too. But they have been gradually training harder and harder their whole life so it didnt come as hard as you would think. And remeber how good they are so when you look at what practices they are doing and who hard they are remeber that they are really good at swimming and its not as hard form them as it would be for you.
Swimming and Football both have injuries, more in football. But in football you get hurt every games. You dont get hurt in swimming, sore maybe and tired but not hurt.
Training for swimming is a hell of alot harder than training for football. But a football games are alot harder than a swim meet. And thats what most people see, the meet not the traning and they lable it a weak sport.
Swimmers deserve alot of respect for their training but not for being a manly sport. thats all im saying, dont take offense to this post.
Having played both, I have a nuetral view.
Swimming is a soft sport. Look around see who the swimmers are, anyone can do it. You got 65 year old ladies swimming laps. thats not hard.
What about the college swimmers training their ass off? That is very repectful and extremely hard too. But they have been gradually training harder and harder their whole life so it didnt come as hard as you would think. And remeber how good they are so when you look at what practices they are doing and who hard they are remeber that they are really good at swimming and its not as hard form them as it would be for you.
Swimming and Football both have injuries, more in football. But in football you get hurt every games. You dont get hurt in swimming, sore maybe and tired but not hurt.
Training for swimming is a hell of alot harder than training for football. But a football games are alot harder than a swim meet. And thats what most people see, the meet not the traning and they lable it a weak sport.
Swimmers deserve alot of respect for their training but not for being a manly sport. thats all im saying, dont take offense to this post.
