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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Any sport regardless of contact is a matter of strength of mind if you want to succeed: The last 5 miles of a marathon, penalty kicks after extra time in soccer, putting for birdies, pushing out the last 25yds at top speed in a swim meet etc. The body heals.
There is an demi-obsession with appearing macho and brutish in sports, which baffles me.
I danced as a teen. ballet, tap etc. I went on stage with hamstring tweaks, with support banadages on under my outfits. Top dancers frequently dance on busted toes. Yet for all this nobody will look beyond guys leaping around in tights and just assuming them to be gay, or fairies.
Ballet dancers are as tough as any NFL player in the confines of doing their job. Furthermore if you wish to compare them outside of their "job;" running around outside of work in a steroid rage, fighting and acting like a hood is no measure of hardness.
Before anyone wants to make fun of me or question my sexuatlity for dancing...I spent my teenage recreation time in the company of many, many scantily clad girls with a ratio of at least 6:1 F:M...not towel flicking and butt-slapping in the locker room with 40 other guys...you do the math :p hehe
Rich
I'm not angry just trying to draw a comparison, and have a little laugh.
Any sport regardless of contact is a matter of strength of mind if you want to succeed: The last 5 miles of a marathon, penalty kicks after extra time in soccer, putting for birdies, pushing out the last 25yds at top speed in a swim meet etc. The body heals.
There is an demi-obsession with appearing macho and brutish in sports, which baffles me.
I danced as a teen. ballet, tap etc. I went on stage with hamstring tweaks, with support banadages on under my outfits. Top dancers frequently dance on busted toes. Yet for all this nobody will look beyond guys leaping around in tights and just assuming them to be gay, or fairies.
Ballet dancers are as tough as any NFL player in the confines of doing their job. Furthermore if you wish to compare them outside of their "job;" running around outside of work in a steroid rage, fighting and acting like a hood is no measure of hardness.
Before anyone wants to make fun of me or question my sexuatlity for dancing...I spent my teenage recreation time in the company of many, many scantily clad girls with a ratio of at least 6:1 F:M...not towel flicking and butt-slapping in the locker room with 40 other guys...you do the math :p hehe
Rich
I'm not angry just trying to draw a comparison, and have a little laugh.
