Is North American sport crap?

Re: Is North American sport crap? Posted by rival on Sun Aug 28th 2005 at 11:51am

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jake said:
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<DIV class=quotetext>...... this thread seems like another excuse to slag off americans.

I take your point, Rival, but that wasn't my intention at all. What I said was said tongue-in-cheek, I was hoping to generate a bit of good natured banter back and forth - which I enjoy - as does Agent Smith it seems.
The trouble with communicating in print is that the tone of a statement can be mis-interpreted. I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't have offended anyone if they had heard what I said.

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understandable my apologies! :biggrin:

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Re: Is North American sport crap? Posted by Fjorn on Sun Aug 28th 2005 at 2:43pm

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Well, I grew up (as an American) playing soccer, and as an adolescent played basketball

And about the whole football/baseball thing... try actually going to the arena and watching it, it looses alot over the tele

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Re: Is North American sport crap? Posted by Agent Smith on Mon Aug 29th 2005 at 12:10am

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I was hoping to generate a bit of good natured banter back and forth - which I enjoy - as does Agent Smith it seems.

You know I do :wink: !

I think the problem with sport related threads is that it brings the sport rage out in some people, like SuperCobra who's been slagging off everyone who doesn't play sport.

I don't mind sport, but I'm generally not that great a fan, particularly of contact sports like football and rugby because of the meat head nature of them and the players. I'm more interested in obscure sports and swimming, but damn if watching them isn't boring :smile: .

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Re: Is North American sport crap? Posted by HAL 9000 AI computer on Mon Aug 29th 2005 at 4:25am

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American foot ball is called grid iron, which is really annoying, in the fact that the method of scoring is called a touchdown, when they don't even actually put the ball down, like in Rugby-Union/League (Australian/English).

Re: Is North American sport crap? Posted by wil5on on Mon Aug 29th 2005 at 7:58am

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Not sure if I've said this here before, but pro table tennis is awesome to watch.

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Re: Is North American sport crap? Posted by French Toast on Mon Aug 29th 2005 at 3:25pm

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Indeed, it's pretty damn sweet.