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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:04 pm
by paaiyan
Well, neither of them is a sport so they really don't have much place here in the first place.
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:07 pm
by squeaks
I'd have to agree. If a 100 year old man can play it and still be able to compete with the younger, or rather less dead, players it really isn't a sport. Also, the same goes if a 600 lb man can do the same as his.....uhhhhh.....lighter opponents it really isn't a sport.
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:10 pm
by paaiyan
This is something that really bugs me. You turn over to the SPORT channel and what do you see? Golf, poker, darts, billiards, blackjack. Dominoes. What the heck? those do not belong on a sports channel.
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:13 pm
by Insomniac
Well it all depends really. There should be 3 types of sports. Purely physical sports (weightlifting) skill sports (lawn bowles, poker etc) and normal sports ( soccar, football, water polo etc)
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:21 pm
by paaiyan
No no no, what I'm saying is that poker is not a sport. neither is any of the other stuff I listed in my last post. None of them deserve to be called sports.
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:25 pm
by Insomniac
Ok, we'll call them games lol
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:28 pm
by paaiyan
There you go. Albeit there is skill involved, there is no physical prowess there. So you can hold cards, or swing a stick at a little white ball, any monkey with half a brain can do that.
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:32 pm
by medievalman
actually, according to this definition, all of those should be called a sport:
Sport-any activity that uses physical skills
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:35 pm
by paaiyan
OK so When are they planning to make blinking an Olympic sport then? Think about how broad that is.
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:36 pm
by squeaks
I feel as if I have opened the proverbial can of worms.
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:38 pm
by medievalman
blinking doesn't involve any skill, it is an involuntary movement, and i never said that everything that fell into this category showed off the athletes individual and outstanding abilities, which is the whole point of the olympics
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:41 pm
by paaiyan
OK fine then, typing. How long till typing is a professional sport?
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:45 pm
by medievalman
it could be a sport, if you are an extremely fast typist, and i wouldn't be bothered by that. It takes more skill than football so it should be a sport.
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:46 pm
by paaiyan
Now you're just being a dummycuz. Typing a sport. Bah!
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:46 pm
by rl93
Is spud gunning a sport.
If not it should be.