Attn: fellas who always watch sports
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How come guys who live eat and sleep sports on TV never want to actually play sports IRL? This is just anecdotal I guess, but if I ever want to shoot hoops, play tennis, etc.. I would never, ever call my friends who are the sports nuts. I would seriously have to look up my weirdo art school friends. Makes no lick of sense does it? Like DJs who've never danced or something. sports v. sport?
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Maybe you just live in a lazy neighborhood?
Batmon U ball w all yr NIKEZ??
Weird.
I was a hardcore athletefrom a kid until after college. I put in enuff time playing sports and riding bikes.
At this point live competition is against 17 years old online.
There are active sports fans and beer drinking fat dudes who watch sports. It doesnt matter.
I play w/ myself now.
Not exactly the same. The barrier for making music is much higher and generally requires a lot more time, committment, money, know-how, patience, etc... A basketball costs like $18.99 and public parks are free baby
Batmon U want in on the soulstrut Super Street Fighter IV tourney? I got some fresh new combos I'm ready to bust :-/
Ehhhh I think HL's analogy was pretty on point. Your initial argument that those who love a form of entertainment are somehow faulty for not participating in it personally just doesn't hold water, especially when compared to other popular obsessive diversions like, yes, music. It's true that those who make music can appreciate it on a certain level others can't, and the same is true for sports - but there are countless passionate, obsessive music fans who don't understand much at all about how it is made, just as millions of hoop fans don't know how it feels to dunk over someone.
The cost-effectiveness argument is extremely flawed as well - in fact one reason many people don't play sports is that can be very expensive. Adult sports leagues can cost hundreds of dollars per season per player, not even including equipment. I personally probably spend over a thousand dollars a year playing hockey, when you factor in the cost of ice time and gear, and I'm not even in a league.
I'll still ball up a Batmon or whatever the fuck.
I played City League Softball until 3 years ago when I retired at 51 after winning the Championship one last time.
I do think that the Internet generation(s) play less sports IRL in general.
And HL is on point....the only "instrument" I can play is the turntable.
RG, do you want in on this? Charlie Hustle and shit.....
Whoopage? I don't have the time [strike]to compete with[/strike] get beaten by the kids online.
Still play football ('so-cher' to you philistines), and still hold my own against kids with 15 years on me, but that won't last. I find more people are interested in viewing sports that they have had some participatory experience in myself. Don't know many sports fans that never picked up a racket, or kicked a ball etc.
[sheepish] Ahem, cough. Yeah. [/sheepish]
This analogy is a crock.
What's up with these people who watch pron but don't pole the chicks?
Oh wait...
Tulisa-R?
You'd almost think they might be attention seekers
::demeyeroll:
**Apparently** head is not her forte.
Major rethink required here too.
This is why America invented The Gym. It's sport for people with no coordination, but you get to feel good at something.
I'M OUT.
jock-who-lost-his-way-R
edit: ill probably golf 15 times this year, but most of that is work related.
also, ill be up in nyc beginning of april. who's down to hoop?
at the moment the only sport i play consistently/competitively is hockey, but now that spring is here things will change....
major fucking cosine.
i sat court side for a raptors/warriors game earlier this month and the whimpering was deafening.