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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In Football you have to read and react and follow your positions assinment and use teamwork. In swimming you don't have to do any of these. Football and swimming not in in the same category.
basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, rubby... ect share the same general aspects. these are sports.
Because swimming dosn't have the aspects of the sports listed above, how can it be considered a sport? Its athletic and requires endurence, strength and all that but its more of an athletic event than a sport.
When the question what is your favorite sport is asked, have you ever heard somone say weightlifting?
Not everything athletic is a sport.
I'm not biased either because I probable like swimming more than most people on this site.
It's these kind of team sports that get you into trouble :joker: /snicker
I think swimming is still a sport. The mental aspect is still there but it is focused internally...maybe we can say team sports versus non team sport...and then again what about the relay????
In Football you have to read and react and follow your positions assinment and use teamwork. In swimming you don't have to do any of these. Football and swimming not in in the same category.
basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, rubby... ect share the same general aspects. these are sports.
Because swimming dosn't have the aspects of the sports listed above, how can it be considered a sport? Its athletic and requires endurence, strength and all that but its more of an athletic event than a sport.
When the question what is your favorite sport is asked, have you ever heard somone say weightlifting?
Not everything athletic is a sport.
I'm not biased either because I probable like swimming more than most people on this site.
It's these kind of team sports that get you into trouble :joker: /snicker
I think swimming is still a sport. The mental aspect is still there but it is focused internally...maybe we can say team sports versus non team sport...and then again what about the relay????
