I think sports are the most boring activity ever invented.
I guess they were pretty cool back in the old days when the Greeks ran around doing the Olympics naked, and in Rome when there were gladiators and chariot races and such, but now it's just a bunch of overpaid sweaty guys fumbling around for a ball.
What are your thoughts on sports? Yea or nay?

You're in the minority.

Yeah, I know.

I Agree, Waste Of Time.

Nay. Exception: The Super Bowl and The Olympics.

I'm in the minority (in my family) when it comes to the Olympics, and I don't know why. It's an epic event that literally the entire world participates in and it only happens once every 4 years. Rio was a blast to watch this year, and I look forward to Tokyo 2020. Should Los Angeles be the host city in 2024 (they put in a bid 2 weeks ago), I pray I'm living there by then.

Dude, I hope for your sake LA doesn't get the "privilege" of hosting the games.
The Olympics absolutely DESTROY any city it's hosted it.

Waste Of Time.

Isn't that your response to everything now?

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Dude, I hope for your sake LA doesn't get the "privilege" of hosting the games.
The Olympics absolutely DESTROY any city it's hosted it.

Nah. FIFA World Cup is gonna be the one that kills us. IF it ever takes place here.

No.
I Am Answering The Question. I Have Never Been Into Sports.

I Am Not Depressed, You Keep On At Me I Will Be.

I Have Never Been Into Sports.

Same. I can never understand why my family is crazy about soccer (and basketball at points). Simply don't care.

I Avoid Sports (Playing Them, Watching Them even Reading Them)

Keep Them Away!!!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/94251bb45a247c1a9cfe1600898df649/tumblr_mkhtepwPQL1qgs4sno1_500.gif

We're on the same team this time, Skelly Buddy.

I fully agree with DAK. Those events mentioned are the only facets of sports I ever care to care about.

If American sports were as entertaining as Japanese ones I'd probably watch though

https://a.disquscdn.com/get?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg0.joyreactor.com%2Fpics%2F post%2Fslurp-gif-snail-girls-885160.gif&key=BELWMd2aBPCL22eD_ADVtQ&w=600&h=259

Hmmm..... funny



:laugh:

I remember that one from your random corner! :p

Yes! Lol

I also appreciate EXTREME sporting, like this guy

http://i.imgur.com/GHQt1Q3.gif

:ashine:

I also appreciate EXTREME sporting, like this guy

http://i.imgur.com/GHQt1Q3.gif

I imagine the effects caused from the brakes on that car made extreme spots on that cement.

Extreme Folly, more like it.

HA!

I think they should replace all sports broadcasts with reruns of Challenge of the Super-Friends.

Anyone ever heard of MXC, it used to air in Spike?

If people weren't such dumbasses maybe there'd be more extreme sports in the world. Like Jackass. If that show had managed to not be shot down by weenies, people would pay less attention to boring sports and more to kickass stunts.
MTV's Jackass Inspires Morons, Upsets Pussies (http://www.seanbaby.com/news/jackass.htm)

If people weren't such dumbasses maybe there'd be more extreme sports in the world. Like Jackass. If that show had managed to not be shot down by weenies, people would pay less attention to boring sports and more to kickass stunts.
MTV's Jackass Inspires Morons, Upsets Pussies (http://www.seanbaby.com/news/jackass.htm)

I remember reading that article from here. I was at school when I did.

Jackass is stupid (literally) fun. I enjoy it. Classic stunts there.

I used to read Seanbaby's old articles all the time in high school. The 9/11 one is my favorite.

Never read any. ...well maybe I have, but I don't recall anything in particular. I can't say that website doesn't look familiar to me, though...

That's what you call what of the earlier era of the internet, oh, the days I was never there...

Well you're missing out. The articles on his website and his older Cracked ones are fucking hilarious. Definitely read "9 Things No One In A Commercial Can Do Right".

Will do

Why, here's one he wrote about sports!
http://www.seanbaby.com/news/buzkashi.htm

Well, I couldn't get much out of that, and it took me too long to read - the TV is blaring.

Anyway, Buzkashi is an incredibly bizarre and inane sport. Poor goats...

The 9/11 one is better

Ultimate Jackass (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if27InJBtEI).

The 9/11 one is better

I'll read that one when television doesn't hold existence anymore.

..............
https://media.giphy.com/media/Y6A4B0JGf7xw4/giphy.gif
HA HA HA HA

I'll read that one when television doesn't hold existence anymore.

..............
https://media.giphy.com/media/Y6A4B0JGf7xw4/giphy.gif
HA HA HA HA

Ultimate Jackass (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if27InJBtEI).

I remember this, from long ago. My brother showed me so many videos...

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In other words: "Like that'll ever happen!"

yeah, and uh, *cue the maniacally laugh*

I still don't get it but okaaaay

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Anyway, we're getting off-topic. This thread needs to be firmly rooted in the discussion of sports.

TV is not ever going away. I guess I failed to imply that?

Of course it's not going away, haven't you ever seen Wall-E? People are going to spend 100% of their time looking at screens. The people who do that today are very progressive.

Is anyone here a sports nut? Like, you can rattle off trivial stats and the like?

I sure as hell can't. Was never a sports person, whole family isn't, really.

Hopefully there is someone here who can fill pages of this thread as to why sports are the best thing in the world. It would serve its purpose well.

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Of course it's not going away, haven't you ever seen Wall-E?

Once, in 2008, I think. I've been meaning to watch it again for years, and, like many other films, haven't brought myself to give it another viewing.

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Here we have, a song titled, "Sports (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7u9hP4r1S8)"

Isn't Tour de France a sport?

If so, here's a wonderful album from everyone's favorite German electronic pioneers! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YXDd_NKhac)

Isn't Tour de France a sport?

If so, here's a wonderful album from everyone's favorite German electronic pioneers! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YXDd_NKhac)

I know the answer to this one: Kraftwerk.

This (https://youtu.be/2XLW0gQCASU?t=130) was entertaining

That video reminds me of a show called WIPEOUT that aired a few years ago. People - usually dumb and/or fat - would get on this awesome obstacle course and get the shit hammered out of them.

I don't care about sports but it's not at all hard to understand why people are into them. Competition is exciting. The nature of the competition changes but it's really not any different from naked sweaty greeks except perhaps a bit less homoecrotic.

That makes sense. I've never been one for team spirit - hell, I never went to a single football game in high school. The only team I care about seeing succeeding is team Skelly.

The real rat race (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2khqjqJ74NU) is on.

This (https://youtu.be/2XLW0gQCASU?t=130) was entertaining

This One Made Me Spit My Juice :laugh:

That makes sense. I've never been one for team spirit - hell, I never went to a single football game in high school. The only team I care about seeing succeeding is team Skelly.

I'm into fighting games "esports," although I loath that term, so I understand it from that perspective. Football and basketball aren't interesting games to me, but Street Fighter and Melee are. I have players I favor and those I dislike, and at really high profile events I root for players that represent my homeland. It's fun.

Though I will say what I don't understand is having local pride in teams that aren't local. Here in Philly people are especially notorious for being violently loyal to their teams, and I always have to bite my tongue when I want to remind them most of their beloved Eagles are just dudes from other cities who were bought.

Yep! And nascar is a waste of gas too. BORING as HELL!

I'll toss my hat into the ring, and lend my support to TheSkeletonMan939. Sport, meh.

Added poll.

Wow, I thought I was one of the only ones who didn't really care about sports (except the Olympics & the Super Bowl)

I think it's worth pointing out that on a forum primarily populated by people with geeky interests like video games and collecting movie soundtracks you're not likely to get a very objective sample of opinions with this poll.

I know. That's why I posted the thread here and not on a forum with non-nerds, lol. I wanted to hear other people say they don't like sports either.

Wow, you have a point. Melee and Smash 4 all the way!

I'm more of a Brawl guy

Sm4sh and Brawl both a shit for competitive play

Brawl's the one I played as a kid, so it's the only way I know how to smash!
I tried Melee but it was too intense for me.
The original is really fun though.

Melee's the one I played when I was a kid, not so often to where I became familiar with it, though.

Super Smash Bros. is the only I've played most and am familiar with. Never played Brawl or any other.

For playing casually I think they're all fun.

Watching people play them as an esport, 64 and Melee are exciting. The other two are like watching a snail race.

I've heard that Brawl is the slowest, and Melee the fastest. The latter is probably my favorite, I every time I play it, usually on the occasion that it's been a while, it's so exhilarating. :p

I've heard that Brawl is the slowest, and Melee the fastest. The latter is probably my favorite, I every time I play it, usually on the occasion that it's been a while, it's so exhilarating. :p

This is essentially accurate, but I don't mean to suggest it's necessarily the speed that really makes the difference. The speed is a side effect of what actually makes Melee such an interesting competitive game, which is the number of options characters have, how dangerous being offstage is and the extent to which it rewards aggressive play.

See the following for examples if curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpj2xSHHPUY

When eSports was introduced to the world, all of sports became a joke.

When atheletes juice up or party and get caught doing bad things, it was just poor taste.
Sure, they're human. But pick any hockey player or football player and make up a fake photo of them doing something bad and ending up in the news, and no one will be the wiser nor surprised. It's happened so much that it's entirely believable.

The only thing I know about hockey is that everything is offside and the referees are bought off by some underground mob that runs the bookies and have something setup with people who run the NHL.
At least that's what everyone says when their (arbitrary) favorite team starts to lose and the referee doesn't call offside.

So now, with eSports, it's not just illegal drugs or enhancement drugs that we have to continually be concerned about and screen for every game, but entire teams dosing up on some illegal energy drink just to play a tournament for some dumbass honor.

I would have loved to taken more martial arts.
Were it not for the competitive aspect.
They say it's not the key element.
But no student takes martial arts just for the sake of learning.
All of martial arts in North America are subtle about imploring competitive sports upon their students at every school.
They just casually bring it up like inception and let the pupils develop the idea themselves.
Garbage. All of it.
It's like the asshole kid in the first Karate Kid movie won and never celebrated with the karate kid at all.

Commercial ideals fuel sports.
Not honor.

I say let people sign up to hunt each other.
Bring back the gladiators, slaves, animal abuse and blood.

actually, i once posted on another forum that gladiatorial battles should come back.
implement them in prisons. criminals can fight and who ever wins goes free or has their sentenced reduced considerably. if the guy was on death row, this is revoked and lessed to years in prison, years depend on the crime.

But they just killed someone... they're looking at life. Again!

actually, i once posted on another forum that gladiatorial battles should come back.
implement them in prisons. criminals can fight and who ever wins goes free or has their sentenced reduced considerably. if the guy was on death row, this is revoked and lessed to years in prison, years depend on the crime.

Is there any way that you could dig up the original post from the other forum and link to it? I'd really like to see that.

But they just killed someone... they're looking at life. Again!


the battles are sanctioned obviously, so they have inmunity during the matches.
think of the remake of death race. a bunch of prisoners racing/killing each other and billions of people watching.
i would totally pay money to sit in a colliseum-like place and see two or more criminals duke it out with swords and spears etc on the arena.
and who knows, a guy who won his freedom could make this a career.

and no, i cant link it because the thread dissapeared. i posted it on gamefaqs and when threads run their course, they either get archived or deleted. that thread got deleted. but its what i posted before but just a little more elaborated. when i feel like it ill elaborate more.

I guess they were pretty cool back in the old days when the Greeks ran around doing the Olympics naked

This was the whole point! Excuses to run around naked! Silly Greeks!

when i feel like it ill elaborate more.

Please do, I'd be very interested to hear more about this.

actually, i once posted on another forum that gladiatorial battles should come back.
implement them in prisons. criminals can fight and who ever wins goes free or has their sentenced reduced considerably. if the guy was on death row, this is revoked and lessed to years in prison, years depend on the crime.

The problem with that is winners will let the victory go to their heads and begin to think themselves as really good fighters, and will be spurred by this confidence to commit violent crimes outside the prison.

The problem with that is winners will let the victory go to their heads and begin to think themselves as really good fighters, and will be spurred by this confidence to commit violent crimes outside the prison.

That's not a problem at all. Then ROKUSHO will don his black trench coat and wide-brimmed hat, grab his twin pistols The Void and The Abyss, turn up just the corner of his mouth in a slight self-assured smile, and say, "Hmmph. Time to hunt..."

When he brings them in, they will be placed in the town square, flogged with razor-tipped whips, and then fed alive to dogs while all the townspeople watch. Then ROKUSHO will draw 3D fan art of their corpse being raped by a frog monster and sell it to the highest bidder.

I say we implement it. We'll need to make sure Hillary doesn't get into the white house, though.

The problem with that is winners will let the victory go to their heads and begin to think themselves as really good fighters, and will be spurred by this confidence to commit violent crimes outside the prison.

that can happen, or it might not. the prisoner can choose to make this a career and can satisfy his bloodlust "legally" if he has it.
why kill people ina way that can get you in trouble with the law again when you can do it in the arena and be cheered for it?

remember, these are gladiatorial battles. gladiators, while commonly slaves, were also mercenary warriors, soldiers and even emperors. glory in the arena at the time was like acting in movies today. you were renown the world over. a psychotic killer will not let that pass up. the vast majority of killers had killed for the attention they give, albeit anonymously but in their mind, the totally want the world to know THEY did it, and not get caught.

sure, there are exceptions, but its in the 100's and 80 of them have never been caught, precisely because they are not psychotic.
take the zodiac killer. he killed and left extremely cryptic clues for the police to capture him, but they never did.
those are the methodical killers, the ones that plan months ahead of time, and make absolutely sure they didnt leave evidence. to compare to fiction, take the trinity killer from dexter. his victims were women, and while we are shown that he gets into the bathtub with them, he never touched them sexually, so as to not risk leaving evidence even if you wear a condom and youre fucking a corpse). it took ONE mistake to get him caught. those that dont make mistakes are never caught.


these arent just fancy pay per view events, the point of this is to bring back gladiatorial battles, with the prize being something worth fighting and possibly die for: freedom. fame and fortune are an extra that always comes to the victors.
the other point is crowd control on the penitentiaries.