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What is the worst sport ever invented?
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What is the worst sport ever invented?
Aussie Rules
2%
 2%  [ 1 ]
Ice Hockey
5%
 5%  [ 2 ]
American 'Football'
25%
 25%  [ 10 ]
Baseball
10%
 10%  [ 4 ]
Curling
20%
 20%  [ 8 ]
Pole Vault
20%
 20%  [ 8 ]
Wrestling
10%
 10%  [ 4 ]
Basketball
5%
 5%  [ 2 ]
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dwarf tossing, yep, or Jello wrestling, or WWF wrestling for that matter; Entertainment isn't neccessarily sport, and vice versa.

joe_doufu wrote:
My aunt used to breed dogs (retrievers) and they have these sort of competitions she'd go to in Canada. They'd fire a dead duck from a cannon on a hilltop. The dog would watch where the duck landed (maybe 100-200 yards away on the other side of an obstacle course) and it would then sprint down the hillside through the obstacles to bring back the dead duck. I guess it was timed.

My best friend is big on duck hunting with retrievers (he just came back from England with a golden lab puppy), and has been going to competitions in Canda and England.
Funny, he's never mentioned a 'dead-duck canon' or an obstacle course before, I'll have to ask him if they still do things that way.
He also carves and paints his own decoys and sells them, if anyone is interested (He's an animator by trade but the contracts are few and far between these days plus he's old school and everything is going CGI).
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The Man known as The Man



Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Diving, soccer-style
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kermo



Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Man known as The Man wrote:
Diving, soccer-style


Like, a sobbing triple-pike with a half-clutch?
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's Argentina vs. Italy all over again.
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flakfizer



Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The OP obviously has a lot of bias by mentioning only sports he might not like and not listing sports that other dislike. I've seen several people mention soccer, and with good reason. I was also here during the World Cup and the best part about it was that I got two days off of work thanks to it. The fact that the Koreans made it to the final four just shows how lame this sport is. It is perfect for all those who have poor hand skills and who fall down a lot when they try to run (as soccer seems to reward people a lot for doing so).
It's not the worst sport, though. I can watch soccer longer than I can watch cricket or rugby.
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Swiss James



Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All of the people who keep on saying Association football are medically retarded.

There, I said it.
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rawiri



Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="Swiss James"]All of the people who keep on saying Association football are medically retarded.

There, I said it.[/quote]




Word...makes you wonder whether the whole battleship grey pasty chatroom dwelling non sports playing 33 year old virgin computer nerd stereotype doesn't have some veracity to it really.

I mean, how far removed from the rest of the world are you if you can claim that football is the worst sport ever invented. I never played football, rugby and cricket were my sports, but...to deny that football is the most popular sport in in the universe is fucked.

Oh yeah...and no offense to all those battleship grey pasty chatroom dwelling non sports playing 33 year old virgin computer nerds out there, just keeping it real!.
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the_beaver



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rawiri wrote:
to deny that football is the most popular sport in in the universe is *beep*.


Nobody denies it. Car racing is (was?) the fastest growing spectator sport in the U.S., but that makes it no less stupid.

There's just something about the way that professional soccer players feign injury and roll around getting their panties all knotted up that isn't appealing to people with testosterone.

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Oh yeah...and no offense to all those battleship grey pasty chatroom dwelling non sports playing 33 year old virgin computer nerds out there, just keeping it real!.


Now dude, aren't you the 300 pound fella I see pounding away on a laptop in random Starbucks around the city? Pot and kettle.
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SPINOZA



Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

billybrobby wrote:
The Simpsons on Soccer:

TV Announcer: The Continental Soccer Association is coming to Springfield! It's all here--fast-kicking, low scoring, and ties? You bet!
Bart: Hey, Homer, how come you've never taken us to see a soccer game?
Homer: I...don't know.
TV Announcer: You'll see all your favorite soccer stars. Like Ariaga! Ariaga II! Bariaga! Aruglia! And Pizzoza!
Homer: Oh, I never heard of those people.
TV Announcer: And they'll all be signing autographs!
Homer: Woo-hoo!
TV Announcer: This match will determine once and for all which nation is the greatest on earth: Mexico or Portugal!





hahahaha. stupid soccer!


I've a lot of time for your posts, Billybrobby, but I'm surprised you posted this and I'm even more surprised that it was aired on The Simpsons, the saintly show loved by liberals the world over (not by me though; unfunny inane sh1te generally). It's blatantly racist - Soccer must be rubbish if rubbishy little countries like Mexico and Portugal are good at it! Deary me, what pish!

For the person who asked me why American Football is total balls, I could list several reasons: constant stoppages, big stupid clothes and helmets (if rugby players don't need all that gear, then those big puffs certainly don't), it's impossible to see where the ball is, it's chaotic, has no redeeming features whatsoever, the foot barely touches the ball, unlike in proper football. People who like American so-called football must have a very high tolerance to crushing boredom! Totally dreadful shower.
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T-dot



Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ballroom dancing and then followed closely by Korean tae-kyun.
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rawiri



Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="the_beaver"]

Now dude, aren't you the 300 pound fella I see pounding away on a laptop in random Starbucks around the city? Pot and kettle.[/quote]


Negative....i'm now down to 295 pounds and i'm more of a dunkin donuts guy so that could not possibly be me now could it.
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the_beaver



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rawiri wrote:
Negative....i'm now down to 295 pounds and i'm more of a dunkin donuts guy so that could not possibly be me now could it.


My mistake. I like to randomly put Dave's names to foreign faces and my accuracy rate is approaching 0%.
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catman



Joined: 18 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NASCAR should be up there. A sport invented by southern bottleggers outrunning the law.

Actually I'm not sure if I hate NASCAR itself, its more the people who watch it.
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Wangja



Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, I'll bite, WTF is NASCAR?
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Swiss James



Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wangja wrote:
OK, I'll bite, WTF is NASCAR?


it's like Formula 1 but all of the tracks are the same shape (round).

Cool!
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