Manly men pick sports like swimming over group sports.

RE: Manly men pick sports like swimming over group sports.

Former Member — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:05:05 GMT

This thread comes up once a year with the same predictable statements - some big football player joins one or two swim workouts and proclaims it harder than football. Never hear about some skinny swimmer donning full gear and doing full contact scrimmages against 200-300 pound lineman in 90+ degree weather. No thanks, I'll stick to swimming. Both sports present unique challenges and develop their athletes in different ways. One of my best friends played high school football and swam. He was a good enough football player to receive small school scholarship offers. Today he is a master’s swimmer with the abilities to be a top ten in the nation in distance events. He would tell you that football is way harder and mention the getting laid out, head rung, throwing up, constantly getting yelled at by coaches. Football players also are far more likely to become injured playing there sport, including injuries that keep them out of the game forever and alter there life’s course. He ultimately declined to play in college. FYI - When I was in High School in the 70’s, multiple members of the swim team played or participated in other high school sports. If Michel Phelps had been a teenager in the 60’s or 70’s, he might have played football, basketball and swum in High School. In today’s world proponents of there sport tend to push specialization, they have to keep the fiefdom going.

RE: Manly men pick sports like swimming over group sports.

aquageek — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:28:43 GMT

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TRYM_Swimmer — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:51:10 GMT

In my school the swimmers were saved from having to perform such demonstrations by the fact that one of the starting linemen on the football team swam butterfly. He let everyone know that swimming practice was "way tougher" than football practice. I'll take his word for it as my body type is incompatible with football... One of the other local schools had an All-Conference Halfback who was All-State in the 50 Free. Of course, our football jocks couldn't read well enough to have noticed that in the papers!

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orca1946 — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:08:21 GMT

In college at Ill state univ in the late 60's , our breaststroker was the center on the football team ! Our team looked like a small football team with some of also bigger than normal swimmers.

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Karl_S — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:03:00 GMT

Reminds me of High School, when a certain football player, on a team that won 4 games in 4 years, told me I wasn't really an athlete, because swimmers had soft muscles. After I goaded him into hitting me hard in the solar plexus without a flinch in front of numerous witnesses, that kind of talk ended, in that school anyway. In my school the swimmers were saved from having to perform such demonstrations by the fact that one of the starting linemen on the football team swam butterfly. He let everyone know that swimming practice was "way tougher" than football practice. I'll take his word for it as my body type is incompatible with football...

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Former Member — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:07:53 GMT

I wonder how Geek got into swimming then? I thought he had more estrogen than testosterone.

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tjrpatt — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:39:54 GMT

All I know is that in all my years of swimming, I never saw guys whip each with towels or slap each other on their butts which is the right of passage in football. Yet, swimming is the flamboyent sport.

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Former Member — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:44:46 GMT

Stillwater is out of the office and unable to respond. He is back in time. He will return later, before this was written.

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Former Member — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:18:28 GMT

Wow, Wookster, from grade school humor to Socratic questioning. You stun me again. I just put the helmet on and I'm going back in time again to document your past quips. (By the way, I still have your size super-extra-small time traveling helmet around here. The cat kind of pooped in it but I don't think you'll notice.) Please keep your unique wit coming, it will make our book a best seller. Your Pal And what is the exact nature of your problems?

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Former Member — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:08:29 GMT

What's your point? Wow, Wookster, from grade school humor to Socratic questioning. You stun me again. I just put the helmet on and I'm going back in time again to document your past quips. (By the way, I still have your size super-extra-small time traveling helmet around here. The cat kind of pooped in it but I don't think you'll notice.) Please keep your unique wit coming, it will make our book a best seller. Your Pal

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Former Member — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:32:03 GMT

Ha, ha, ha! Nice zinger wook. I see you have evolved from poop to gender jokes. I wonder where you will go next. Your pal What's your point?

RE: Manly men pick sports like swimming over group sports.

Former Member — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:08:59 GMT

I wonder how Geek got into swimming then? I thought he had more estrogen than testosterone. Ha, ha, ha! Nice zinger wook. I see you have evolved from poop to gender jokes. I wonder where you will go next. Your pal

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aquageek — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:57:04 GMT

What's your point? You need to get a TRO on your stalker pal Stillwater. It's approaching D2 creepiness.

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TRYM_Swimmer — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:15:52 GMT