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.
I could be wrong, but Im thinking swimmers train harder and longer than the "ballplayer" sports.
Yes, you are correct, you are indeed wrong. At the NCAA level, all sports are limited as to practice time. Have you ever actually participated in a basketball or football or wrestling practice, or lacrosse or soccer? They are all grueling and you don't leave them dry. Have you ever actually played a full game of real football, not flag football or powder puff football?
A very close friend is a D1 basketball coach and while the swim team is humping it in the pool, those guys are working just as hard in the gym.
You ever seen an NFL running back up close. Go tell Tiki he's not in prime condition. How many swimmers can run a sub 5 second 40? But, a huge percentage of footballers can and those guys are enormous. No, they aren't in shape. And, many drive sweet pimped out SUVs.
It's ludicrous to say swimming is harder or easier than any other sport, except bowling, the mother of all contact sports - hand contacts beer, beer contacts belly.
I could be wrong, but Im thinking swimmers train harder and longer than the "ballplayer" sports.
Yes, you are correct, you are indeed wrong. At the NCAA level, all sports are limited as to practice time. Have you ever actually participated in a basketball or football or wrestling practice, or lacrosse or soccer? They are all grueling and you don't leave them dry. Have you ever actually played a full game of real football, not flag football or powder puff football?
A very close friend is a D1 basketball coach and while the swim team is humping it in the pool, those guys are working just as hard in the gym.
You ever seen an NFL running back up close. Go tell Tiki he's not in prime condition. How many swimmers can run a sub 5 second 40? But, a huge percentage of footballers can and those guys are enormous. No, they aren't in shape. And, many drive sweet pimped out SUVs.
It's ludicrous to say swimming is harder or easier than any other sport, except bowling, the mother of all contact sports - hand contacts beer, beer contacts belly.
