OT: ..I wonder what sport Ramona Shelburne used to play?

[lefty]

NFL
3 hours of commercials with football breaks
7 minutes of actual action
fat linesmen running to the locker room at HT to look more active
fat linesmen running to the locker room at HT because they can't wait to eat their fries and cookies HT snack

[midnightpulp]

NFL
3 hours of commercials with football breaks
7 minutes of actual action
fat linesmen running to the locker room at HT to look more active
fat linesmen running to the locker room at HT because they can't wait to eat their fries and cookies HT snack

Don't front left. We know you love the NFL. (just like you do baseball).

You're from my generation. We loved all the sports growing up. There wasn't any of this sports comparison , so I know you like all the sports. We played 'em all.

Today's sports fans

[midnightpulp]

NFL
3 hours of commercials with football breaks
7 minutes of actual action
fat linesmen running to the locker room at HT to look more active
fat linesmen running to the locker room at HT because they can't wait to eat their fries and cookies HT snack

Do you follow the cfl?

[Darth_Pelican]

NFL
3 hours of commercials with football breaks
7 minutes of actual action
fat linesmen running to the locker room at HT to look more active
fat linesmen running to the locker room at HT because they can't wait to eat their fries and cookies HT snack

Yet you regularly post in the NFL forum during the season, watch the games, and pull for certain players & teams.

[lefty]

I pretended to

[Darth_Pelican]

I pretended to

There's no shame in admitting that you take a break from watching s & Eurotrash jogging around & kicking a ball back & forth for 2 hours and praying that someone scores so that a game doesn't end 0-0 and instead enjoying a game that involves different skill sets & strategies that often comes down to the last possession.

[140]

I pretended to

[DAF86]

You won't see anything as skillful as this in rugby:

lol son



I know you are way too basic to understand what is happening there so I'm just going to let you know that passing in rugby is extremely difficult. I'm a guy that has relatively ease for sports, I tried learning to pass in Rugby and I couldn't do it. You think it's just tossing the ball to the side like NFL players do when they are in desperate mode but no, in rugby you have to pass it with spin and speed. Basically, you have to throw underhand spirals. That's difficult enough to do it with two hands, so try to imagine how skillful is what that number 10 guy did there of throwing an underhand rever pass with one hand while falling down.

[DAF86]

There's no shame in admitting that you take a break from watching s & Eurotrash jogging around & kicking a ball back & forth for 2 hours and praying that someone scores so that a game doesn't end 0-0 and instead enjoying a game that involves different skill sets & strategies that often comes down to the last possession.

I like the NFL a lot more than Rugby, but that doesn't prevent me from saying what, imho, it's a pretty easy fact, which is that Rugby is more demanding than American Football, tbh. Same with soccer, soccer is my favourite sport but not because of that I'm going to pretend like it's more demanding than Rugby.

[Seventyniner]

Isn't the answer to the thread le sumo?

[Brazil]

It keeps coming.. American football more skillful ?? Omfg

there is one position that demands skills the rest demands almost ...

Mid I am a fan tbh but you know nothing at all about rugby.. stay away from it brah

[midnightpulp]

I know you are way too basic to understand what is happening there so I'm just going to let you know that passing in rugby is extremely difficult. I'm a guy that has relatively ease for sports, I tried learning to pass in Rugby and I couldn't do it. You think it's just tossing the ball to the side like NFL players do when they are in desperate mode but no, in rugby you have to pass it with spin and speed. Basically, you have to throw underhand spirals. That's difficult enough to do it with two hands, so try to imagine how skillful is what that number 10 guy did there of throwing an underhand rever pass with one hand while falling down.

Underhanded spirals or not, a "long" pass in Rugby is about 10 yards. Flutie's pass was about 60. Moreover, Rugby players don't have to deal with opposing players trying to knock down their passes (I'm basic enough to know that knock downs are illegal in rugby). They don't have to pass with anywhere near the same precision, executing a pass through a small window to prevent the cornerback from defending/intercepting the pass. They don't have to read for multiple options zigzagging 10, 20, and 30 yards downfield all at the same time.

Rugby passing isn't in the same universe as QB passing. It's why QBs are the most valuable commodity in sports.

Again, I'll agree the skill demands are higher in rugby in general, football is highly specialized game with many positions that don't require much skill, but when you average it out over all the positions, football is the more demanding game overall.

For the record, I do think the study overrates football. Baseball and basketball have a much higher learning curve. The QB position is the only thing more difficult than any one position in baseball and basketball.

[midnightpulp]

It keeps coming.. American football more skillful ?? Omfg

there is one position that demands skills the rest demands almost ...

Mid I am a fan tbh but you know nothing at all about rugby.. stay away from it brah

When's the last time a rugby player has caught a 60mph bullet while running full speed over the middle while a CB is breathing down his neck and another player is barreling right toward him?

[Mark Celibate]

It keeps coming.. American football more skillful ?? Omfg

there is one position that demands skills the rest demands almost ...

Mid I am a fan tbh but you know nothing at all about rugby.. stay away from it brah

that's three straight posts with nothing but hot air and emoticons...how about you step up and prove him wrong, brah? He's got a point. maybe not as clear cut as one might teenk

gy opinion + certainty = ...

[Kyle Orton]

that's three straight posts with nothing but hot air and emoticons...how about you step up and prove him wrong, brah? He's got a point. maybe not as clear cut as one might teenk

gy opinion + certainty = ...

Oh! I'm uncertain if he cares to converse with the lead athletic director


after det one

[FkLA]

You know what else takes a lot of skill and is really difficulty?



Maybe we can get some pool fans in here arguing about how much of a "sport" their game is too.

[midnightpulp]

You know what else takes a lot of skill and is really difficulty?



Maybe we can get some pool fans in here arguing about how much of a "sport" their game is too.

I play pool at a pretty high level. Local hall down the street was ran by Mexican legend Francisco Galindo. Saw him play Keith McCready, former number one player in the world, for 20 thousand. Now that I got my "cred" out of the way, yes, it is a sport.

Anything in which physical execution is just as important as mental execution (i.e. strategy) is a sport. You can't arbitrarily set the number of "athletic" events you want to see in a sport and then define or dismiss based on that criteria. I can say, "they don't run around in full team volleyball, its cardio demands are just a little over walking, (180 calories in 30 minutes. You burn about 140 in 30 min at a brisk pace), it's a non-contact sport, so therefore I deem it not a sport!"

Number of athletic events is meaningless. They occur, and when they do occur, you need world class athleticism to meet their meet their demands (any sport at the pro level).

And what is an "athletic event" anyway? Another arbitrary determination based on taste. Nailing a 150 yard golf shot from the rough, fading it around a tree, and landing it 5 feet from the pin is just as "athletic" as some action that requires "running around."

Your logic is pretty terrible.

[spurraider21]

That's Apo kneeling there between me and Midnight, taking his L's.

lol fantasizing about having men all over ur

[Clipper Nation]

You know what else takes a lot of skill and is really difficulty?



Maybe we can get some pool fans in here arguing about how much of a "sport" their game is too.

Pool is more of a sport than povertyball, tbh.

[lefty]

When's the last time a rugby player has caught a 60mph bullet while running full speed over the middle while a CB is breathing down his neck and another player is barreling right toward him?

They can't do that without all the protection, helmets and steroids tbh

[FkLA]

I play pool at a pretty high level. Local hall down the street was ran by Mexican legend Francisco Galindo. Saw him play Keith McCready, former number one player in the world, for 20 thousand. Now that I got my "cred" out of the way, yes, it is a sport.

Anything in which physical execution is just as important as mental execution (i.e. strategy) is a sport. You can't arbitrarily set the number of "athletic" events you want to see in a sport and then define or dismiss based on that criteria. I can say, "they don't run around in full team volleyball, its cardio demands are just a little over walking, (180 calories in 30 minutes. You burn about 140 in 30 min at a brisk pace), it's a non-contact sport, so therefore I deem it not a sport!"

Number of athletic events is meaningless. They occur, and when they do occur, you need world class athleticism to meet their meet their demands (any sport at the pro level).

And what is an "athletic event" anyway? Another arbitrary determination based on taste. Nailing a 150 yard golf shot from the rough, fading it around a tree, and landing it 5 feet from the pin is just as "athletic" as some action that requires "running around."

Your logic is pretty terrible.

No. You are the one trying redefine what the definition of a sport or athlete is. Every definition out there has some variation of exercise/physical exertion/stamina in it.

I love playing pool too but just like fatball it isn't a real sport. Skill and difficulty alone doesn't make something a sport.

[BD24]

WHO CARES WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY!?!?!?!

One sport allows double handjobs in the shower. One doesn't.

It's over. Give up.

and how tiring can soccer be if you have the energy to give a double handie after a game

[midnightpulp]

No. You are the one trying redefine what the definition of a sport or athlete is. Every definition out there has some variation of exercise/physical exertion/stamina in it.

I love playing pool too but just like fatball it isn't a real sport. Skill and difficulty alone doesn't make something a sport.

I'm the one trying to redefine what a sport is.

The Olympic committee agrees with me, since "non-stamina" sports like 100m, shooting, archery, shotput, discus, javelin, short course swimming, diving, long jump, high jump, triple jump, weightlifting, golf are all Olympic sports. The event which declares "the greatest athlete in the world" features 8 sports where stamina isn't the least bit important. And even the decathlon's big stamina events are merely the 400m and the mile. Nothing too taxing.

Sport is generally recognised as system of activities which are based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with the largest major compe ions such as the Olympic Games admitting only sports meeting this definition,[3]

Skill and difficulty alone certainly make something a sport if that skill and difficulty is based around physical execution, and baseball is probably the most difficult here, evidenced by the fact of how long prospects need to spend in the lower leagues. Only like 3 players from the 2015 draft have played in the MLB. 27 from the 2015 NBA draft have played in the NBA.

BTW, fatball is a real sport. Some can make the argument it isn't since it's the only sport out there where all the players don't have to play both offense and defense, but that's kind of a silly argument, like the s-s-stamina argument. Fatball also isn't an Olympic sport...

[Brazil]

I'm not gonna argue with somebody who thinks American football is more demanding than rugby or demands more skills... silly people. None of the Americans in this thread know just the beginning of rugby rules neither watch a game in their lifes...

carry on tho

[midnightpulp]

I'm not gonna argue with somebody who thinks American football is more demanding than rugby or demands more skills... silly people. None of the Americans in this thread know just the beginning of rugby rules neither watch a game in their lifes...

carry on tho

It's cause you know you don't have an argument.

Rugby certainly require a lot more endurance and kicking a en. Other than that, what do you got?