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.
If you don't like the threads, why bother reading them?
That's such a cop out. You don't have to like or agree to a thread to read it. I agree with knelson - a sport struggling to find it's way among the bigger televised sports has no business putting down other sports of any size, especially when those disparaging the other sports have never played them.
Given 98% of Americans are big tubs of lard, the fact that anyone does something athletic is good enough for me.
This is the best response to Warren I've seen yet.
I knew some_girl was a smart girl when I saw her use the word "caesura" on that butterfrog video thread. (some girl, I'm trying to change my user name to not rip off yours.)
And I'm not sure if swimmers will get as much respect if they're butterfrogging unless they're over 50. Anyone over 50 swimming in a meet should get a big round of applause (and any newbie swimmers trying it out as well).
Aw, I'm flattered. Thanks. (And you don't have to change your name--I don't mind, at least.)
Yes, that is why we call the former set "team sports." See how you use the adjective thing to differentiate? Here try this out: acoustic guitar : electric guitar :: team sport : _________
This is the best response to Warren I've seen yet.
I knew some_girl was a smart girl when I saw her use the word "caesura" on that butterfrog video thread. (some girl, I'm trying to change my user name to not rip off yours.)
And I'm not sure if swimmers will get as much respect if they're butterfrogging unless they're over 50. Anyone over 50 swimming in a meet should get a big round of applause (and any newbie swimmers trying it out as well).
Whenever you hear someone saying such things about swimming, just challenge him/her to have a swimming race!!!
Any olympic sport deserves deep respect. By the way I enjoy swimming so much that any negative comment means nothing to me.:D
That's such a cop out. You don't have to like or agree to a thread to read it. Given 98% of Americans are big tubs of lard, the fact that anyone does something athletic is good enough for me.
Hey, Speedo Man, I agree with everything you said, except the "cop out" part. Indeed, I think I'm on record as saying "everyone has a voice on this forum" in response to being quasi-dismissed for having an opinion on another thread. It just sounded like Kirk was bored with the "tediousness" and repetitiveness of this particular thread. When I get bored from reading, I :snore: .
