Can you beat the crap out of people in Ice Hockey, or is it just internets rumours.
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Can you beat the crap out of people in Ice Hockey, or is it just internets rumours.
I just learned that I share an overall sports perspective with Idol :blink:
Thank goodness there is a slight departure, in that I don't watch hockey due to the fact that figure skating is a bit ghey.
I thought you didn't like any sports :eyebrows:
Both basketball and NFL are fantastic highlights sports. There used to be a magazine type program for each on CH4 in the UK, and I rarely missed either. Of course, I was a student then and never missed an episode of Kilroy either, but that's not the point.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
In American football they spend more time picking themselves up off the ground than they spend running plays.If a play lasts longer than 7 seconds it's the football equivalent of a 40 point tie breaker in tennis. With Basketball the problem is in and of themselves almost every individual basket means nothing. And I only put in baseball as an example of a North American sport that everyone would probably be familiar with.What do "big fans" in baseball care about ,statistics.:blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Artemis
At least with hockey ,the play is meant to be as continuous as possible,goals are at enough of a premium that every one usually effects the outcome of the game and it's not so utterly boring that the people who watch it have had to come up with something else to do to pass the time.
Actually of the mass media sports I probably just as soon watch soccer as anything if not for the fact that they have a disturbing tendency to cheat and dive and like fuck and at least half of the time no one's even really trying to win the game.
Neither game stands up when watched live precisely for the reasons you and others outlined but if getting drunk whilst overseeing a cook-out and having sport on in the background is your thing, then either of these sports is tailor-made.
What you say about puntsphere is completely untrue, but you were being facetious anyhow. The diving is real enough but it's an ugly part of the game brought on by wanting to win a little too much and being willing to do anything to get an advantage. It's abhorrent but the rule-makers seem reluctant to bring retrospective punishment to bear and the current yellow-card shown to divers is infrequently used - due to them being so fecking good at it now :dabs:
My favoured solution is the pink card. Anyone caught diving in a match by a fourth official watching on a TV monitor is issued a pink card there and then by the referee and has to sit out a subsequent two game ban. It would stop diving straight away and I'm not sure what the hold up is.
They actually employ people to do little else.True story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Something Else
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIlLbJHKw8M
Use to be bloodier back in the day when players even went after fans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8K7roZu3WU
I should note that both those games are in New York so feeling like killing everyone is justifiable.
I'm in favour if they also write you're a big fag on the pink card.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
Stop glaring.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
I watch real football every once in awhile, not enough to remember anyone's name but I usually catch up on all that during World Cup time. I just can't get excited following league play since our league is no fun and I find no motivation to stay on top of another country's league. I hear we have a decent hockey team given our non-icy location, and have been invited out countless times, I've just never made it out to a game (mostly because I hate being around a mass of other Floridians).
They should all be given goatse cards.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787I'm in favour if they also write you're a big fag on the pink card.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
You're the sweetest girl/man I've ever met.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaryStop glaring.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
I watch real football every once in awhile, not enough to remember anyone's name but I usually catch up on all that during World Cup time. I just can't get excited following league play since our league is no fun and I find no motivation to stay on top of another country's league. I hear we have a decent hockey team given our non-icy location, and have been invited out countless times, I've just never made it out to a game (mostly because I hate being around a mass of other Floridians).
I also don't know why you don't like the eyebrows man. He isn't glaring at you. He's just thinking about you.
Malevolently.
I'm going to tell you that in all probability, it would be an orange card or a different non-gay colour because it wouldn't be PC to use a pink card, let alone a pink card with you're a giant cawk-swallower on it. I'd also like to take the opportunity to tell you that red and yellow cards were introduced to the game at its infancy but were phased out, only to be brought back in during the late 80s in a blaze of publicity.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787I'm in favour if they also write you're a big fag on the pink card.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
I tell you this because Arty is hovering. And, well, y'know.