What is truly hilarious about basketball, is that it is actually based on an ancient latin american tribal game, played for kings, in which the leader of the winning team achieved through his victory, the glorious honor of getting ritually sacrificed, his head being cut off, and presented to the king.
Natives competed fiercely for this honor. 
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I generally agree with White Shadow on the boring part except when thereās something on the line (Iām only talking team sports here). Iāll watch Hockey during playoffs, Football during superbowl, SOCCER during World cup. Never during regular season though.
Individual sports are a different thing. Shit Iāll watch 2 men fight any day of the week.
actually there is some debate as to what happens upon winning, there are some historians that state the losing team go sacrificed or the losing captain or the winning captain ect. ect.(if you are referring to the game teh mayans played with the sideways hoops)
i agree with every part of your argument. Flawless.
However I would have added no homo at the end, in your case 
anywho, on a non sports tangentā¦after that Tall Teeth discussion we had awhile back, who here would fuck Mileena? Would you have to have her cover up her mouth, or would you be willing to let that shit slide?
Yup.
I tend to go with the version taught by my esteemed philosophy of economics professor, if for no other reason than, through the profound reverence his white personage exhibited for this fuck-upāed practice, I first became aware of how severely fucked up the liberal end of education could get.
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lol You can compare golf and baseball to fighting games, where there are participatory strategies/tactics that you can analyze and apply to your own game? Not to mention matches that donāt take 4 hours to finish and have no BS like fouls, half-time, bad calls, and pre-game coverage sponsored by Miller Lite?
Yeah itās clearly not close to being the same thing.
The only reason why the Fighting genre is my favorite is because itās the one type of competitive game where your skills can never be incessantly contested by judges, replays, and pure chance. If you want to find the ratio of skill between your rivals you just have to keep playing. Oh and lastly, itās because I hate playing on teams.
haha fair enough sir.
Have tournaments for fighting games always been run in such a shitty fashion? Iām looking at that thread with the Power Up gossip and its fucking hilarious how people justify seeding for entertainment purposes at a tournament. At this point most of those niggas need to show up to tournament with dress and martinis because they donāt want to compete, they want a social event.
hell theyāve already taken to carrying a tub of vaseline when they are around Ricky O. I donāt believe itās too far of a stretch till you get to that point pertho.
BBW or not, Iāve never done a chick with a Mileena grill.
Bad teeth are a no no for me.
woo 100 more challenges left in the MK challenge tower
fuck, some of these challenges are beastly 
She is the very definition of a butter face. But seriously, u couldnāt even put a veil over her mouff and enjoy the rest?
Hockey is basically soccer on ice, on a smaller field.
(Which would actually be a big improvement for soccer - narrow the field, reduce the number of guys, increase the opportunities to actually demonstrate soccer skill. 90% of the game chasing after the ball, only 10% of it is executing soccer plays.)
Hockey and soccer suffer from the same thing though, in that there is no real defined rhythm to the game, no pacing, and bad games are absolute hell to watch, where itās just one team kicking it back to the other team constantly. Except for hockey when the neutral zone trap was big, you would also have to constantly slow a boring game down with more faceoffs. And now the trapās coming back.
Hockey is far from the greatest sport to watch, ESPECIALLY if you are Canadian. Same Canadian knucklehead idiots who are rooting for Tie Domi motherfuckers to bog the game down with āgritā and āheartā is precisely why it is not as successful as all the other North American sports.
Non-playoff hockey is pretty crappy to watch. Playoff hockey is lilke the greatest thing ever, because hockey teams have an incredible amount of parity and they are just that much better with stuff on the line. Overtime playoff hockey games are like a heart attack that lasts for three straight hours.
But basketball is the greatest sport to watch, anyone who says otherwise is crazy. There are clearly defined possessions back and forth (like a baseball game almost, teams average about 100 possessions a game), a distinct rhythm to the game, amazing highlights constantly, an incredible amount of stratgetic depth to the game. Especially good teams (ie. not the Raptors).
Football is great like basketball, but the only problem is that they only have like 2 minutes of action spread over every 15 minutes.
I love watching baseball, but I acknowledge that itās slow to watch if you donāt understand the game. But itās better than soccer because there is at least a defined flow to the game. Both teams start with 27 outs, you try to maximize what you can squeeze out of those, and if you accomplish more with those outs than the other team, you win. Also literally everything can be objectively measured in baseball, and there is an appeal to be able to reduce the worth of a human being to a few numbers and dollar signs.
Cricket takes the worst part of baseball and combines with the horrible drag of soccer. How people get worked up for this sport is fucking insane, considering that like an 8 hours match is considered short.
thatās the only part of your post that wasnāt nerd, rationalizing bullshit.
invented in america (by a man that died an american) and played first by americans. sorry, pal.
The NBA says youāre wrong, buddy
and hockey isnāt soccer on ice. Wow, they have nets, and two sidesā¦Hockey is full contact, none of this āget my hair done up so when I wipe out it gets tussled and looks authenticā. There is no out of bounds. And you can fight. And if you get hit with a soccer ball you might get a bruise or something. In hockey you get FUCKED UP if the puck hits you.
Hockey is like a super advanced futuristic version of soccer
The basic flow the games are the same.
Essentially the whole strategic objective of the game is to setup a rush towards the net in the rare opportunities when you have numbers going one way, where the shooter gets the puck/ball through one of the passing lanes that the rush has created. The possession battle is done in the neutral zone, and the objective is to spend as much game time in your opponentās zone as you can.
These statements apply equally to hockey and soccer.
Except you can dump the puck in and cycle it, opening it up for passing lanes that originate from behind the net. Or in soccer these are corner kicks. Even power plays are just like free opportunities for free kicks.
The full contact is just a byproduct of playing in a smaller field, which is the main difference between them. And why soccer would be much better on a smaller pitch.
I appreciate that the learning curve to play hockey at a high level is probably the most difficult of all sports, with the exception of baseball where there is just the one singular skill that only like the top 1% of people in the world can do well (hitting a round ball with a round bat).
But there is no reason to hate on soccer while saying hockey is the greatest. Watching both games is usually a pretty slow boring process, just lots of meaingless back and forth in the middle for 80% of the game. Dump it in, line change, three on three rush that has no chance of generating a scoring opportunity, dump it in, line change, oops bad pass offsides, line change, face off, line change, bad angle shot on net, face off, line change. Except in soccer itās even slowerā¦because the pitch is so huge.
And anyone who watches hockey only for fights is a fucking idiot, and is one of the direct reasons why there was a lockout that almost destroyed the league.
the fact that fighting is allowed in hockey is what keeps me from taking it seriously.
I really enjoy the pace of basketball. Now, if only I had cable so that I can keep up with sports, that would be awesome. Reading about what happened is not interesting to me.
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Good idea or bitch made?
Pfft.
I dont like any sports. All that shit is boring to me.
werd.
I watched briefly one rugby game a few days ago and a shit load of seagulls was on the field. that was bizarre.
