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| 29 AUG 2005 at 3:09pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | i wouldn't say i love sports in general... i LOVE football... the real football i mean, which in america is called bananas or smth... :
i like several other sports, like basketball or tennis, but i don't watch them regularly... since i've lived in the us, i've been trying to get into baseball and american football, but i don't think that can happen!
least favorite sport... probably boxing, wrestling and all that stuff
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 4:30pm |
| Deleted User | I really enjoy swimming. It's both good for the body and enjoyable.
I'm not too fond of land sports, football (both versions) is boring, but volleyball is nice.
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 4:40pm |
TemporaIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 96
Joined: 5 AUG 2005
Status : Online | I do not like sports at all.I only like Videogames and Especially Adventure Videogames.
o tempora! o mores!
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 5:11pm |
gailSchattenjger
Posts : 1659
Joined: 19 JAN 2004
Status : Offline | Has anyone watched the Ultimate Fighter, where mixed martial arts are used by the opponents? It's an interesting sport to see.
I played baseball and volleyball years ago by don't care to watch sports on TV anymore. I will go rarely to see a live game.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!!!
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 5:19pm |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1630
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | Being Canadian and growing up in Montreal, hockey was always part of my life. Not that I played it or anything, but my dad was a rabid Canadians fan so it spilled over to me. It was a part of my growing up - games on TV, the Stanley Cup parades, games at the Forum and the Russian rivalries.
As much as my dad loved his Habs, my hubby adores his Leafs. Paul was in a funk all last year, and can't wait for the guys to hit the ice this season. I'll watch the occasional game; I find it much more entertaining than many other sports.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 7:41pm |
Sandy_SleuthPrivate Detective
Posts : 556
Joined: 22 JUL 2005
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Marney (29 AUG 2005 4:30pm)
I really enjoy swimming. It's both good for the body and enjoyable.
I'm not too fond of land sports, football (both versions) is boring, but volleyball is nice.
I Love swimming too. It's the only work out that doesn't feel like exercise. Unlike my treadmill, which I call my "dreadmill."
But, it must be done!
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 8:00pm |
| Deleted User | I have loved Basketball since I could bounce that big ball. Though the NBA players seem a bit too "thuggish" compared to years gone by, I still love to watch. I still go out and play at the gym with the teens and 20 y.o. and they totally kick my butt. It's a good workout though.
I also check-out Ultimate Fighting every now and then. Those guys are crazy!
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 8:06pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4038
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | I used to watch the Islanders play hockey but haven't bothered much in recent years. I still enjoy many of the Olympic events, however. As far as personal fitness goes, I ran regularly for about 14 years, but now I prefer walking.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 8:29pm |
anthonyJourneyman
Posts : 1270
Joined: 11 JUN 2003
Status : Offline | I love watching NFL football on tv on Sundays in the fall. It also serves as a great workout. You improve hand/eye coordination by putting those little pieces of lime in the icy-cold Corona bottle, flex your arms and improve your aim by dipping that Tabasco Sauce-spiked Buffalo chicken wing in the chilled bleu cheese dip bowl, and concentrate on maintaining poise and balance by making sure the carmelized onions and sauteed mushrooms don't slide off that melted Jarlsburg cheese on that ribeye steak sandwich.
Yes, I know it's rigorous, but you know what they say: No pain, no gain.
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 9:49pm |
gailSchattenjger
Posts : 1659
Joined: 19 JAN 2004
Status : Offline | Yeah, painful indeed, Anthony.
We all played hockey at a local ice pond as kids. Phew, what a tiring sport unless you were the goalie.
My husband got the opportunity to carry the Stanley Cup about 40 feet a couple of years ago.
He is so proud of this pic.
[IMG]http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9696/stanley0od.th.jpg[/IMG]
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!!!
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 10:18pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5537
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | I've become less interested in sports overall as I've gotten older except for American football, which has pretty much held my interest even as my baseball and basketball viewing has dropped off.
Least favorite sport to watch? Golf, probably.
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 10:54pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | I live with a TV sports addict. Over the decades I have absorbed the general rules of just about everything and I HATE THEM ALL !!!!! >
Can't stand the squeaky noices basketballer's gym shoes make on the wooden floor - hate the sound of the organ too.
Can't see the point in TV golf - total waste of a good day.
Tennis Anyone? Oh puleeeze..... just hit each other with your racket and get it done with. Ace after ace - and then tantrums. I mean, what is the point?
Football in all its versions - just a bunch of men chasing a ball - give them one each and put an end to the misery.
And boxing is a sport? o that on the street and it's a crime - pass the laws and get it banned.
Wrestling - ditto. Except WWW - total sham.
Now doing sport is much more fun. Swimming, walking, table tennis with the kids while I still beat them....
I have learned to be sort of interested in watching my boys play soccer and baseball, but I can't stand cricket.
Cricket - the British contribution to Civilisation. A game can last 5 days. Can you imagine it? But they do stop for tea, if it gets dark and definitely if it rains.
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 11:05pm |
| Deleted User | The best thing about sports is that, when there's some huge game on, it's a great time to go shopping! There's hardly anyone else in the stores.
Chris
edit: I just saw Caroli.... err, Invisible Woman's post above this.
I don't hate all sports, I just am not a sports fan, especially when it comes to just sitting there watching it.
Doing it? I'm really not very good at competitive sports, but I've enjoyed tennis and a few others. Non-competitively, I definitely love bike riding, and if it's not just for the sake of exercise, I've always swimming.
But yeah, I don't really have a lot of heavy sports nuts in my life. <*ywan*>
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| 29 AUG 2005 at 11:10pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Andromus (29 AUG 2005 10:18pm)
[...] Least favorite sport to watch? Golf, probably.
For me: bowling. I remember when I was a kid, they had bowling tournaments on the t00b all'a time.
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| 30 AUG 2005 at 1:41am |
anthonyJourneyman
Posts : 1270
Joined: 11 JUN 2003
Status : Offline | Wrestling - ditto. Except WWW - total sham
Now you've gone too far, Caroline! I'll bet you wouldn't call it a sham if you are on the receiving end of a super-duper big belly suplex executed off the top of the ring ropes and onto the announcers' table by the Great Waldo the Wild Man from Borneo.
The best thing about sports is that, when there's some huge game on, it's a great time to go shopping! There's hardly anyone else in the stores
You know you have a point there, Chris. I think that this year, near the end of the season when the NY Giants and Philadelphia Eagles are battling for the division and the teams are squaring off against each other on a chilly December day in the Meadowlands, I'll say to my wife: "Hon, rather than watch this critical game with enormous play-off implications, let's go to Bed, Bath And Beyond and pick out some drapes for the foyer. We can bring some trail mix to nosh on, drop into the Barnes & Noble to read a little poetry, and make a pit stop at Starbucks for a nice mocha frappaccino sprinkled with nutmeg."
She will probably suspect that aliens have landed on Earth and taken control of my body after sucking my brains out.
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| 30 AUG 2005 at 1:44am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Watching lawn bowls on TV, or even 10 pin bowling. zzzZZZZZZ.... how about Curling? Now there's a silly sport.
Australia has an annual tuna tossing festival (the tuna is frozen and you can enter into different weight categories - that's the weight of the tuna, not you).
Then we have the rubber wellie tossing and the cow pat hurling and let's not forget the Todd River Regatta.
The Todd River runs through Alice Springs in the dead centre of Australia but is mostly sandy. The Regatta is held in winter (too hot in summer) and was cancelled the other year because there was actually water in the river.
The boats have no bottoms you see and the 'rowers' hold the boats around them and run. Not quite the Oxford vs Cambridge classic but it's the thought that counts.
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| 30 AUG 2005 at 2:15am |
| Deleted User | I have the perfect solution for those of you that hate all sports: THE WORLD OF COMPETITIVE EATING!
http://www.ifoce.com/index.php
It doesn't get any better than to get your buddies over on a Sunday afternoon to watch a guy eat 31 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes! Break out the Bud! [smiley=beer_buds.gif]
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| 30 AUG 2005 at 2:09pm |
Sandy_SleuthPrivate Detective
Posts : 556
Joined: 22 JUL 2005
Status : Online | Originally Posted By anthony (30 AUG 2005 1:41am)
Now you've gone too far, Caroline! I'll bet you wouldn't call it a sham if you are on the receiving end of a super-duper big belly suplex executed off the top of the ring ropes and onto the announcers' table by the Great Waldo the Wild Man from Borneo.
You know you have a point there, Chris. I think that this year, near the end of the season when the NY Giants and Philadelphia Eagles are battling for the division and the teams are squaring off against each other on a chilly December day in the Meadowlands, I'll say to my wife: "Hon, rather than watch this critical game with enormous play-off implications, let's go to Bed, Bath And Beyond and pick out some drapes for the foyer. We can bring some trail mix to nosh on, drop into the Barnes & Noble to read a little poetry, and make a pit stop at Starbucks for a nice mocha frappaccino sprinkled with nutmeg."
She will probably suspect that aliens have landed on Earth and taken control of my body after sucking my brains out.
I spit out my water while reading that!!! LOL!!!!
[img]http://bestsmileys.com/lol/5.gif[/img] I can't ever imagine my hubby saying that either!! [smiley=rofl.gif]
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| 30 AUG 2005 at 4:41pm |
EternalIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 46
Joined: 8 NOV 2004
Status : Online | Do I love sports? Well this coming weekend I'll be in sporting heaven. The AFL (Australian Football League) preliminary final between West Coast Eagles and Sydney Swans this Friday night at Subiaco Oval (GO EAGLES!!!!!) and the final of the Ashes series (traditional Cricket game played between Australia and England) being played in England from Thursday Evening to Monday Evening.
I'll be a zombie come Tuesday.
Cheers, Eternal
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| 30 AUG 2005 at 10:52pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | My hubby is a Pom where the cricket or soccer are concerned. And the kids keep taping the overnight cricket as if it was important and they flick the channels to 'catch the scores' ~ again as if it mattered! :-X
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| 30 AUG 2005 at 11:09pm |
MissBSchattenjger
Posts : 2217
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I refuse to watch any sports on TV.
On occasion, I'll go to a high school football game, but only if:
1- it's not too hot
2- it's not too cold
3- someone else is paying for me to get in, because I'm sure as hell not dishing out my hard earned money to see all that
4- the aforementioned payor is willing to buy my drinks, snacks, etc, because I'm not paying $5 for a glass of water
5- I have a cute new outfit to wear
6- I'm having a good hair day
To summarize, I don't go to football games....
My name is Bethany and I'm the daughter of Gamergal/Michelle.
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| 31 AUG 2005 at 4:25am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By anthony (30 AUG 2005 1:41am)
You know you have a point there, Chris. I think that this year, near the end of the season when the NY Giants and Philadelphia Eagles are battling for the division and the teams are squaring off against each other on a chilly December day in the Meadowlands, I'll say to my wife: "Hon, rather than watch this critical game with enormous play-off implications, let's go to Bed, Bath And Beyond and pick out some drapes for the foyer. We can bring some trail mix to nosh on, drop into the Barnes & Noble to read a little poetry, and make a pit stop at Starbucks for a nice mocha frappaccino sprinkled with nutmeg."
She will probably suspect that aliens have landed on Earth and taken control of my body after sucking my brains out.
Or go to the (vastly empty that day) multiplex to enjoy the latest romantic comedy. ;^)
I put myself through school working retail consumer electronics. It was fun throwing the frisbee around the store on Superbowl Sunday until the occassional customer would come in to see sales guy from the washing machine department running around with a drier hose, yelling "anger, Will Robinson!".
We guys back in the audio department would have to turn down our playing of Money For Nothing, "We have to install microwave ovens, custom kitchens, delivery!", which we used to taunt the white-goods department.
Usually, the customers were non-US national Asians. "Me want Sony--no pay tax!" Sorry for the seemingly gross generalization, but it's true.
When they left, we'd go back to skipping frisbees off'a the top of TVs and VCRs. (Don't buy those demos, folks.)
Heh.
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| 31 AUG 2005 at 4:30am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Michelle (30 AUG 2005 11:09pm)
I refuse to watch any sports on TV.
ME TOO!
On occasion, I'll go to a high school football game, but only if:
Heh. I'll only accept tickets to a Mariners game if:
- It's a box seat
- There's booze
- It's a nice day and the roof is rolled off
- There's somebody interesting to talk to, because boy, I'm not watching live baseball--it's 3 hours of game, 2 minutes of excitement.
Speck
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| 31 AUG 2005 at 12:00pm |
snowtimeJourneyman
Posts : 1014
Joined: 28 JUN 2005
Status : Online | Originally Posted By The Invisible Woman (30 AUG 2005 10:52pm)
My hubby is a Pom where the cricket or soccer are concerned. And the kids keep taping the overnight cricket as if it was important and they flick the channels to 'catch the scores' ~ again as if it mattered! :-X
Cricket is important. A contest of the mind as well as the body. It has tension. It has drama. It has subtlety. It has passion. It has very eccentric commentators on radio who talk about pigeons and buses all the time.
My wife is a big cricket fan too and we were both glued to the Ashes match this weekend. It's amazing the way the popularity of cricket has rocketed in the UK during this Ashes series.
Not too sure about [s]soccer[/s] football though. Why is it that a game which involves only marginal contact between ball and foot (American Football) steals the name football from a game in which the main method of moving the ball around is by contact with feet (English football forced to refer to itself as "soccer" when abroad)? I ask merely for information.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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