What Sports Are We Fans Of?

[tkcolo]

Before a few months ago, I would have said College Football/Basketball/Baseball (Texas A&M), and NFL (Broncos), MLB (Rockies), and rodeo.

Everybody but rodeo is making it pretty darn hard to root for anybody. Too busy supporting the whitewashing of history on our fast track to fascism.

There aren't many rodeos this year. We produce our local rodeo series (junior and open), and we have had people coming from all over to compete. Nobody is practiced up, so they are throwing their rope in the dirt just like we mountain folk usually do (we don't get to start till May from snow cover). From now on, I think I am just going to play and compete and forget about watching the pros for a while.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Fans are just passive third party observers

Not in English football they're not. The chanting can get pretty loud and very brutal. Funny also.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

81 posts, and not one mention of Starcat? I'm not about to read through all of this, but I've always wondered why it's more manly or macho to watch guys in plastic suit bump around on a field... when there is women's beach volleyball. I've never been able to set through any sportball game, but I can watch beach volleyball till my eyes drop out.

 

[crawdad]

Baseball
futbol (soccer)
F1
WRC

NASCAR in the olden days, not whatever the hell it is now.
NFL-loved it growing up, won’t watch it anymore
Boxing-loved it until the politics(corruption) got so bad.

 

[ben88]

Female tennis

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Female tennis

Too many clothes!!

 

[brian64]

If you guys keep mixing your soft-porn and sports it's likely to mess up your wiring even more than it already is.

Or Cosmic may not be able to keep putting his eyes back in eventually.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

If you guys keep mixing your soft-porn and sports it's likely to mess up your wiring even more than it already is.

See... I think of guys watching guys as being a wiring problem. I don't get it, but then again, I don't understand musicals or putting sugar in marinara. I guess we're all different.

Yeh, my eyes are a problem. My wife keeps slapping me so hard that they are starting to think that under the couch is their native habitat.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Now rodeo, I never considered that to be a sport as such. More a case of some young stud fancying himself sits astride a raging young bullock only to find after about ten seconds he will never become a father

Time for bed chaps....goodnight.

Regards,

Jay.?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Currently play: Golf, Lawn Bowls, Pool.

Have played: Tennis, baseball, football, soccer, lacrosse, basketball, lacrosse, hockey, wrestling, sailboat racing, competitive shooting (skeet; rifle), rugby, cricket, court tennis, racquets, squash, platform tennis, pickle ball, royal tennis, competitive skate boarding (50 years ago), billiards, pool, snooker.

Now follow: 49ers, Tottenham Hotspur, Formula One, a bit of baseball (Giants). I have now zero interest in basketball, though when the Warriors became great, I was a fair weather fan (as I am with my baseball team).

I'll watch almost any Olympic competition, and dabble in odd sports such as darts and whatever else crops up on the boob tube. And, some beach volleyball and women's track.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"pickle ball"

That's a new one on me. Quite the all round sportsman then eh John?

Regards,

Jay.

 

[timelord]

See... I think of guys watching guys as being a wiring problem. I don't get it, but then again, I don't understand musicals or putting sugar in marinara. I guess we're all different.

Yeh, my eyes are a problem. My wife keeps slapping me so hard that they are starting to think that under the couch is their native habitat.

My wife was always happy to spend a day at the Beach Volleyball with me; we just used to take more interest in different games...

 

[tkcolo]

Now rodeo, I never considered that to be a sport as such. More a case of some young stud fancying himself sits astride a raging young bullock only to find after about ten seconds he will never become a father

Time for bed chaps....goodnight.

Regards,

Jay.?

It's no less a sport than anything else that people compete in. Bull riders may not be the sharpest knives in the drawer, but they have giant cajones. Bronc riders are straight up cowboys. The speed events are high-speed and super fun to compete in. Team Roping has five animals involved and a lot of variables to account for in 4-5 seconds. It's all about your partnership with your horse, who is somewhere between your hardest working partner and your most-beloved pet. Maybe you should watch one before you say this IRL to the next bronc rider you meet. Oh wait, are you just a tough guy on the internet?

Don't make fun of anyone's chosen sport, because getting off your ass and competing is infinitely better than sitting on your ass eating bon-bons. Even if it's curling or lawn bowling or darts.

 

[jpmcwjr]

"pickle ball"

That's a new one on me. Quite the all round sportsman then eh John?

Regards,

Jay.

I've been very lucky to be able to experience/sample such a variety. Forgot playing volleyball, mumbletypeg, hide and seek, spin the bottle, cowboys and indiginous peoples, chicken, no-hands biking, zoom (the table game) , the history game, in my Grandmother's suitcase I packed.... Telephone (the game). Fish, Canasta, Bridge, Old Lady, Gin Rummy, solitaire, and more.

Forgive the somewhat expanded view of sports to include childhood games.

 

[tbradsim1]

I played as a small boy marbles, mumblepeg with the older boys, knew what dirt tasted like early on.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Maybe you should watch one before you say this IRL to the next bronc rider you meet. Oh wait, are you just a tough guy on the internet?"

"Don't make fun of anyone's chosen sport, because getting off your ass and competing is infinitely better than sitting on your ass eating bon-bons. Even if it's curling or lawn bowling or darts."

For goodness sake man, get a sense of humour

Regards,

Jay.?

 

[mawnansmiff]

"I've been very lucky to be able to experience/sample such a variety. Forgot playing volleyball, mumbletypeg, hide and seek, spin the bottle, cowboys and indiginous peoples, chicken, no-hands biking, zoom (the table game) , the history game, in my Grandmother's suitcase I packed.... Telephone (the game). Fish, Canasta, Bridge, Old Lady, Gin Rummy, solitaire, and more."

But John, have you ever tiddled a wink?

Regards,

Jay.?

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

But John, have you ever tiddled a wink?

Regards,

Jay.?

Conkers also. Now that's a great game I enjoyed in my childhood. Hunting for the best conker, then drilling it ready for battle. Some kids used to soak them in vinegar and one cheating shit even varnished his.
Kids today are having to wear goggles now if they want to play. "Be careful or you'll have someone's eye out!" You couldn't make it up?.

Pupils ordered to wear goggles to play conkers at school in 'nanny state' ruling

Headteacher Polly Broadhurst has insisted that children playing the traditional game at her school should wear goggles to protect their eyes.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[mawnansmiff]

81 posts, and not one mention of Starcat? I'm not about to read through all of this, but I've always wondered why it's more manly or macho to watch guys in plastic suit bump around on a field... when there is women's beach volleyball. I've never been able to set through any sportball game, but I can watch beach volleyball till my eyes drop out.
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The girl on the top right seems a smart ass

Regards,

Jay.?

 

[mawnansmiff]

Smudger, as a kid at school in Bakewell I was playing conkers and one particular kid kept winning every match with everyone. Long story short his 'conker' was made of Bakelite! Did he get a beating behind the bike shed after school ?

Regards,

Jay.?