are there no sports threads? there must be some athletic hippies here. i want to talk about ultimate frisbee and skiing. anyone out there with me?
I like basketball, football (soccer for you people whose variation of English lacks all logic), volleyball, tennis, table tennis, bowling, and competitive baby eating. Ultimate frisbee is such a hippie sport... I should try it at some point, but it just doesn't seem active or physical enough for me.
i'm pretty sure an american football is a foot long. not that football isn't a good name for soccer, just pointing out that there is some logic to the name. i don't know the official ultimate frisbee rules, but it certainly can be an active, physical sport, at least the way my high school track team played it. we never stopped moving and there was blocking/tackling involved. i know there was a sports forum at one point, though it was rarely used. i don't know if it still exists.
I'm all about Football and watersports: surfing, sailing, windsurfing. Anything involving a motor is not a sport IMO.
Ha, I just measured my football and it's 11 inches. Don't know if it's regulation. I have a deflated regulation ball around here somewhere.
A football ball is a foot? No sir... unless you mean "American football".... but that's exactly my point... My issue is with calling "football", the game of hitting balls with your feet.... soccer. Soccer makes no sense. Explain "soccer".
From some website: The term "soccer" came into use in England during the 1880s by university men from Oxford and Cambridge. The use of "association football" as distinct from "rugby football" was already in practice and "soccer" became a colloquialism formed by extending the second syllable of "association". Today it remains a primarily journalistic or conversational term in Britain and throughout the Commonwealth, but in the United States, Canada and Australia its use is the rule. In its early days soccer in the United States was known as football and when the national governing body of soccer in the United States was formed in 1913, it was known as "The United States of America Football Association." In later years that gave way to "The United States Soccer Football Association" (USSFA) and then to day's "United States Soccer Federation."�Many of the state associations in the U.S. contained "football" in their title when they were formed in the early years of the century. In Australia the national team is known as the "Socceroos", while one of the world's best known soccer magazines "World Soccer" is published in England.� Consequently soccer is not a term unique to the United States as many people seem to think.
You know... I must admit that I cannot help but loving the baseball fights. There is something amazing about such a beautiful expression of natural selection... idiots destroying other idiots in masses over something as trivial as a game... the pure genius!
a sport is a genetic mutation. mechanical objects are interesting. nature is often somewhat interesting as well. and designing mechanical objects and animating them in such ways as are harmonious with nature is the most gratifying of all. watching a bunch of idiots competitively attempt some sort of arbitrary manuvers involving feats of physical strength, is, to me, for the most part, generally not. =^^= .../\...
i love sports - i was a multi-sport athlete for many many years...sometimes 3 sports per season...i was a very energetic kid, all my friends were...we were all on the same teams haha, or same league swimming, basketball, baseball, football, soccer...etc i work at a sports camp its my life, really
