Relatives in professional sports

[ragecage]

http://rootzoo.com/articles/view/Wat...-a-Sport_11317

Here we go again.

[etothep]

Spades has scoring and tact, so that must make it a sport

[Jeffy25]

the worst are the followers of it....the wanna be tough guys....that's really cute

[Jeffy25]

look, I'll say it's a sport....but it doesn't take away from the ridiculous stupidity that it is.

[Kobie]

not, and never will be a sport in my book, it's pointless, stupid, and ****ed up....hey cool! I'm gonna try to beat the **** out of some other guy and be the toughest!

I understand it takes tremendous skill and agility, but it's ****ing stupid, really stupid. I personally, would never want to roll around on some mat with another guy all greased and oiled up wearing only a small pair of shorts. Give me a sport I can drink to, or actually enjoy playing that takes some actually thinking and analytical planning and skill, rather than kicking out the other dudes feet and trying to pin him.

JHC on a pogo stick, fighting sports (MMA, boxing, tae kwan do, jujitsu, etc.) DO take "thinking, analytical planning and skill." You don't just blindfold two guys, crank them up on PCP, and throw them in an octagon together (although that would be fun to watch). Just because you don't enjoy watching it does not make it any more or less of a sport.

I don't enjoy watching figure skating. I think it's boring as a dog's ass, and the scoring is probably the most subjective out there. However, as much as I dislike it and would never watch it, it's still a sport.

"It's stupid" is, thankfully, not the barometer by which certain activities are considered sports or not sports.

[Jeffy25]

JHC on a pogo stick, fighting sports (MMA, boxing, tae kwan do, jujitsu, etc.) DO take "thinking, analytical planning and skill." You don't just blindfold two guys, crank them up on PCP, and throw them in an octagon together (although that would be fun to watch). Just because you don't enjoy watching it does not make it any more or less of a sport.

I don't enjoy watching figure skating. I think it's boring as a dog's ass, and the scoring is probably the most subjective out there. However, as much as I dislike it and would never watch it, it's still a sport.

"It's stupid" is, thankfully, not the barometer by which certain activities are considered sports or not sports.

to, me it's like putting dogs in a cage, having starved them and having them fight each other Michael Vick style, just with people....

And I agreed it's a sport, by definition, it is a sport, but I'm gonna call it very loosely a sport.

[ragecage]

It's really too low brow for Jeffy.

I think UFC is awesome, I don't like the knockouts as seeing a guy reverse into a submission hold. It takes unbelievable skill and knowledge of martial arts to be able to do the things they do.

[ragecage]

to, me it's like putting dogs in a cage, having starved them and having them fight each other Michael Vick style, just with people....the people watching it seem the exact same as the Michael Vick type to me.

And I agreed it's a sport, by definition, it is a sport, but I'm gonna call it very loosely a sport.

Wow, those guys are being compared to dogs now?

That is a pretty ignorant statement coming from you man.

[Jeffy25]

Wow, those guys are being compared to dogs now?

That is a pretty ignorant statement coming from you man.

I am telling you how it looks to me, how it appears to me, it's an opinion, not an ignorant statement, an opinion.

[Kobie]

to, me it's like putting dogs in a cage, having starved them and having them fight each other Michael Vick style, just with people....the people watching it seem the exact same as the Michael Vick type to me.

And I agreed it's a sport, by definition, it is a sport, but I'm gonna call it very loosely a sport.

Um, last I checked, they weren't exactly starving these guys in cages and electrocuting them when they lose.

And now you've just compared the people who enjoy watching MMA to Michael Vick. Wow.

[ragecage]

I am telling you how it looks to me, how it appears to me, it's an opinion, not an ignorant statement, an opinion.

It is ignorant, because like Kobie posted above, you are basically calling me (someone who enjoys it) a Micheal Vick like character. Pretty dam offensive man.

[etothep]

Last I checked, the men fighting were doing so by their own volition, as opposed to the dogs in question

[Kobie]

I'm going to chalk that one up to a poor choice of words on Jeffy's part.

[OregonDuck1989]

MMA: Dog Fighting, With Humans.

[Arctic Blast]

to, me it's like putting dogs in a cage, having starved them and having them fight each other Michael Vick style, just with people....the people watching it seem the exact same as the Michael Vick type to me.

And I agreed it's a sport, by definition, it is a sport, but I'm gonna call it very loosely a sport.

Are you serious?

Example A : Two animals starved and drugged out of their skulls, thrown in to a ring to tear each other apart with no choice in the matter. They're trained through being literally tortured. Screw up and they're killed.

Example B : Two trained athletes enter a ring BY CHOICE after years of training in half a dozen different fighting styles. Screw up and they go back to the drawing board and learn from it.

Yeah, those are roughly equal...if you're an idiot.

As for the violence of it, here's an article written in 2004 reporting that from 2000-time of posting, 22 high school kids DIED playing football. DIED. How many guys in every pro sport you can name suffer catastrophic injury on an annual basis?

Hell, narrow it to other combat sports...how many ex boxers are punch drunk mumbling brain injury victims because their sport lets them keep taking head shots no matter how damn woozy they are so long as they can drag themselves back up to their feet?

Oh, but that all somehow doesn't count, right? How nice and convenient.

And finally, if you're honestly going to compare me to some sick **** watching dog fights...and I'll preempt your usual post-dumb comment whinging about being misinterpreted because that's EXACTLY what you said with this line :

the people watching it seem the exact same as the Michael Vick type to me.

...you can **** yourself. Seriously. I don't take kindly to essentially being called a degenerate, so too goddamn bad if my response offends you right back.

Oh, sorry, does that somehow lower me to a level your pompous ass considers beneath you? GOOD. I don't want to share anything within a good sized vicinity of your judgmental, whining punk **** ass.