Originally posted by Domesticated
Amusing that a lack of hockey on TV can ruin BTG's whole night.
Really? I always thought handball was incredibly exciting; the fact that the rules dictate both feet must be off the ground to score ensures this. I think I even made a thread about it during last year's Olympics. Also the chicks who play it are very hot, Cristina Neagu from Romania in particular.
Ha ha ha, you guys make me laugh. American football is a sport.
Like SYSTEM-J, I think the idea of measuring a sport on bloodiness alone is ridiculous, but then again, toughness is another admirable quality, just like endurance or skill or precision.
Three reasons why American football is piss-weak:
a) They wear ing armour!
b) The collisions mostly come from the same direction, which allows players to anticipate them and brace accordingly.
c) The defenders may be big guys, but they are also quite slow, reducing their impact.
In contrast, Australian football players wear no protective equipment whatsoever. A vast majority of them are well over six foot tall and many more weigh upwards of 100kg. They must run around 10km (6 miles) per match, in 25 minute quarters, with no off/on breaks like the American version. As the game is non-linear (i.e not just back and forth), the hits can come from any direction, meaning injuries are usually a lot more severe. People have died in club/local level games.
See this compilation to give you an idea of what I'm talking about :
Pretty much everything shown there is within the rules of the game. That's another thing that makes AFL so tough as opposed to ice hockey or other sports where brawling happens frequently but is not allowed by the rules.
can you skate?
because i can elbow your head and run.
Renzo
Wow, it's like elementary school all over again.
smellyblack
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Originally posted by BTG
better than belfour.
Stanley Cup.;)
smellyblack
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Originally posted by Renzo
Wow, it's like elementary school all over again.
can you skate?
because i can elbow your head and run.
DuBam
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Originally posted by The17sss
haha... no way man. It's so much more sophisticated than soccer or whatever the masses like.
ing LOL
pkcRAISTLIN
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Originally posted by Domesticated
Really? I always thought handball was incredibly exciting; the fact that the rules dictate both feet must be off the ground to score ensures this. I think I even made a thread about it during last year's Olympics. Also the chicks who play it are very hot, Cristina Neagu from Romania in particular.
i really thought you were taking the piss here. it would have to be the teen asian nude championships before i would ever tune in to that joke of a sport.
Domesticated
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
i really thought you were taking the piss here. it would have to be the teen asian nude championships before i would ever tune in to that joke of a sport.
Firstly, I thought you loved asians, so why wouldn't you want to watch that?
Secondly, are we talking about the same sport here? To clarify, I'm talking about this:
If you're not a sports fan at all I can understand not liking this, but I know you like AFL and I can't see why you wouldn't. There's plenty of diving goalie saves and plenty of clever passing, as well as a lot of strategy. They have some cool tackles and collisions too. The first highlight on that video when they pass around the D and then do that mid-air pass is awesome; it shows such great athleticism and skill; I honestly can't understand why you would find that boring.
pkcRAISTLIN
not even the prodigy can make that cool.
catch the ball! throw the ball! the skill set really blows my mind.
Scoops
"Watching baseball on TV is worse then watching grass grow" - Jeremy Roenick
DuBam
"Bashing hockey is for people who tried to skate, and couldn't"
- DuBam
Dervish
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Originally posted by The17sss
Lord. You must be joking. You think you could put pads on a hockey player, put him out there with NFL players, and he could take the punishment? Insanity! Nobody is saying hockey players are pussies. It's the soccer players that are.
a) If they didn't, there would be 50 broken bones per game.
b) That is complete nonsense. Video clips below of guys who are physical specimens getting absolutely destroyed.
c) Wrong again. Only the big uglies in the middle of the line are slow, and that's a relative term at best. The rest of these guys that are laying the hits run 40 meters between 4.3 and 4.7 seconds. Imagine a 6'4, 250 pound linebacker coming at you head on and again, tell me if you think Alexander Ovechkin could stop him dead in his tracks.
Here's Reggie Bush gets killed:
Ryan Clark laying the wood
...again (hold for the other replay angles)
Anquan Boldin (who is a beast) getting his jaw shattered
Willis McGahee gets knocked out.
I'll give it up for those guys man... no doubt they are some tough motherfuckers. They aren't right in the head like most of the UFC fighters you see. [/QUOTE]
Bull , the first vid "hit of the year" happens every Rugby game, every single one. Or a lot worse.
verndogs
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Originally posted by Dervish
Bull , the first vid "hit of the year" happens every Rugby game, every single one. Or a lot worse.
There is a big difference with tackles in rugby and american football...
Rugby players do a proper tackle. American football players don't do a proper tackle. They just try to flatten you with every hit.
