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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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. Swimmers deserve alot of respect for their training but not for being a manly sport.
It's this kind of thinking that has caused young boys not to swim.
I used to play football and now I run and swim. From my perspective, swimming (and all endurance) sports are a LOT harder than football. The fact that someone chooses to get beat up on a football field does not make them "manly." Football's a great game, but endurance sports separate the men from the boys.
Oh, and I don't think it's just college swimmers that deserve respect.
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. Swimmers deserve alot of respect for their training but not for being a manly sport.
It's this kind of thinking that has caused young boys not to swim.
I used to play football and now I run and swim. From my perspective, swimming (and all endurance) sports are a LOT harder than football. The fact that someone chooses to get beat up on a football field does not make them "manly." Football's a great game, but endurance sports separate the men from the boys.
Oh, and I don't think it's just college swimmers that deserve respect.
