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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any sport, what sport would you do away with? Why?

 
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/29/2008 11:29:28 PM   
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I am wanting to go the opposite way on this...instead of banning, they should start maximizing some sports to their potential:

here are my demands:
1. Put sumo wrestlers in a cage (make them win by getting the other to submit)
2. Spelling Bees should involve the spelling right next to a beehive or something
3. Synchronized swimming should be done with piranhas in the pool
4. WWE wrestlers should be wrestling with their hands behind their backs
5. NBA should force their players to wear flip-flops instead of shoes

of course, if all of this were to happen, you can watch these sports on ESPN 8, the ocho

(please tell me someone out there got that joke)...


Who could forget Dodgeball? I got it pretty quickly!

That water-skiing squirrel would have been more interesting than the "olympic sport" of synchronized swimming, IMSOHO

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/1/2008 7:36:05 AM   
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Football is intolerable for me to watch. How much longer until it's over?
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/2/2008 2:01:26 PM   
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Football.

They're mostly criminals, they get paid too much, they stretch out a half hour game to four hours for no reason, and it's just an excuse for men to hit each other on the butt.

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/2/2008 4:16:16 PM   
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Now you've ruined one of my favorite sports for me.

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Football.

They're mostly criminals, they get paid too much, they stretch out a half hour game to four hours for no reason, and it's just an excuse for men to hit each other on the butt.


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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/2/2008 4:44:28 PM   
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Soccer; any sport where tie games are common isn't really a sport

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/2/2008 7:33:31 PM   
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2. Spelling Bees should involve the spelling right next to a beehive or something


Brilliant. For each wrongly spelled word, someone gets dipped in a tub of honey.


Patent this idea guys and market it to the X games as "extreme" spelling!

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/2/2008 7:40:06 PM   
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ORIGINAL: stellaluna

Football.

They're mostly criminals, they get paid too much, they stretch out a half hour game to four hours for no reason, and it's just an excuse for men to hit each other on the butt.


Now that is an original take on my beloved sport that I may not agree with but can see where your coming from. Most criminals in football have been associated with the Oakland Raiders or Atlanta Falcons, IMO. Although, that would be a most interesting football trivia statistic! Which team has the most ex-con, incarcerated, or indicted players. Of course we can do that for baketball and baseball as well!

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/2/2008 9:32:08 PM   
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ORIGINAL: stellaluna
Football.
They're mostly criminals, they get paid too much, they stretch out a half hour game to four hours for no reason, and it's just an excuse for men to hit each other on the butt.


The reason the game takes so long is the commericals.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/3/2008 10:22:34 AM   
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ORIGINAL: mapachito13

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ORIGINAL: stellaluna

Football.

They're mostly criminals, they get paid too much, they stretch out a half hour game to four hours for no reason, and it's just an excuse for men to hit each other on the butt.


Now that is an original take on my beloved sport that I may not agree with but can see where your coming from. Most criminals in football have been associated with the Oakland Raiders or Atlanta Falcons, IMO. Although, that would be a most interesting football trivia statistic! Which team has the most ex-con, incarcerated, or indicted players. Of course we can do that for baketball and baseball as well!


You forgot the Cincinnati Bengals!
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/3/2008 2:01:18 PM   
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ORIGINAL: mapachito13

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ORIGINAL: stellaluna

Football.

They're mostly criminals, they get paid too much, they stretch out a half hour game to four hours for no reason, and it's just an excuse for men to hit each other on the butt.


Now that is an original take on my beloved sport that I may not agree with but can see where your coming from. Most criminals in football have been associated with the Oakland Raiders or Atlanta Falcons, IMO. Although, that would be a most interesting football trivia statistic! Which team has the most ex-con, incarcerated, or indicted players. Of course we can do that for baketball and baseball as well!


You forgot the Cincinnati Bengals!


Is that why they are already wearing bright orange?!

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/8/2008 9:52:42 PM   
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Mens synchronized diving. Gross!

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/9/2008 3:05:47 PM   
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[Heretic! Where's my torch?


I'm sorry.I just find it so boring.Whats a heretic btw?


A heretic is someone questioning the established belief or dogma.


I have to agree you CANNOT DO AWAY WITH FOOTBALL!! Because, if we did away with football, then we wouuld have to do away with the New York Giants, and if there were no New York Giants, then there would be no Eli Manning, which would make me very sad!!
(Eli Manning is my favorite quarterback of ALL time!! )

Okay, with that being said if I had to do away with a sport it would be golf, it is SOOOO boring and I just don't like it!

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/9/2008 3:23:00 PM   
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Well, there would still be an Eli Manning without football. He'd just play something else and we'd be talking about Eli Manning beating Tom Brady at Wimbledon instead!
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/10/2008 12:25:43 PM   
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Well, there would still be an Eli Manning without football. He'd just play something else and we'd be talking about Eli Manning beating Tom Brady at Wimbledon instead!


Haha! But, yes that is the main reason Eli Manning is Cool, cause he beat Tom Brady!!!

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/16/2008 1:01:30 PM   
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Whose bright idea was it that poker should be a televised spectator sport? Hunt this person down and stake them to an anthill!

in other words: remove from all sport programming anything involving playing cards!!
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/16/2008 4:43:03 PM   
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I agree. I really like to play poker (also pinochle and euchre) but it's not a sporting event and doesn't need to be televised.

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Whose bright idea was it that poker should be a televised spectator sport? Hunt this person down and stake them to an anthill!

in other words: remove from all sport programming anything involving playing cards!!


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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/24/2008 10:26:35 PM   
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Mens synchronized diving. Gross!



Complete agreement.

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 9/24/2008 11:44:26 PM   
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ORIGINAL: cog41

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Mens synchronized diving. Gross!



Complete agreement.


Sorry guys but the ladies love those guys in their Speedos! But I do find the womens diving easier to watch!

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 10/7/2008 8:20:12 PM   
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I am wanting to go the opposite way on this...instead of banning, they should start maximizing some sports to their potential:

here are my demands:
1. Put sumo wrestlers in a cage (make them win by getting the other to submit)
2. Spelling Bees should involve the spelling right next to a beehive or something
3. Synchronized swimming should be done with piranhas in the pool
4. WWE wrestlers should be wrestling with their hands behind their backs
5. NBA should force their players to wear flip-flops instead of shoes

of course, if all of this were to happen, you can watch these sports on ESPN 8, the ocho

(please tell me someone out there got that joke)...


Who could forget Dodgeball? I got it pretty quickly!

That water-skiing squirrel would have been more interesting than the "olympic sport" of synchronized swimming, IMSOHO



Oh no! Where's the synchro love?!?!? If you had any idea how hard it is to get everyone's leg at the same angle and height you wouldn't be so quick to add those piranhas!!

If you watch closely enough you'll see some pretty funny stuff. A couple weeks ago we surfaced after working on a figure only to discover one teammate inadvertently sitting on another teammate's head. Don't hate simply because we make it look easy.

And we look good doing it.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 10/20/2008 9:37:28 PM   
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Figure Skating!

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 10/28/2008 1:05:43 AM   
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All of them
except Hunting and Pro Wrasslin' (yes i said Wrasslin')
the others are pretty much boring and pretty much the same thing
over and over again
oh and hockey can stay as long as they are still allowed to fight out there differentes
nothin' lik a good tussel

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 10/31/2008 8:52:14 AM   
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Football! I hate the monotony of it and how so many people spend so much time in front of their televisions to watch it.

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 10/31/2008 9:59:29 AM   
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Dallas Cowboys are up there on crimal list in football. but football is popular for one reason. well more than one actually

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 10/31/2008 10:02:05 AM   
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I think the Chargers are in a bit of legal trouble too? Or perhaps I'm thinking of another team? What team was it that had the big immoral party on the boat like a year or so ago?

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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 11/10/2008 12:19:14 PM   
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poker, for sure.
nascar, for sure.

maybe horse racing (i'd at least regulate it so the horses couldn't be abused).
maybe wrestling/boxing cause it's unnecessary violence, but then wouldn't we have to make all sports injury-proof? what's the fun in that?

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