Metal Up Your Ass and all that Jazz Room V2

Just checking in to keep up with the news.As for myself,my oldest daughter won a troiphy the other night for the most improved in Calisthenics. Very proud I am. Awesome  Also if there are any Englishmen here, we about to take you on again in the cricket,so feel free to gloat if you do us down here. The Aussie team has droooooopped to number 5 in world ranking

Balthamel wrote: ROSENBORG HAVE WON ITS 22nd LEAGUA TITLE TODAY , and holds the title as the most successfull club in Norway. they have not lost a game in the series in 34 matches, they havent lost on away side in two years,   HIPP HURRAY

MUYA sounds like a really dirty word from my language 

Time Signature wrote: Don't hate me, but I couldn't give a flying frag about football.

Seconded!

I'm more of an American football guy, but I like watching the occasional World Cup/International match.

Edited by Stooge - 26 Oct 2010 at 8:42am

i can shoot pretty accurate, but don't aim on my head (i am a terrible head player), don't even think about puit me in the goal (as a goal keaper), I am a bit afraid of the ball (though I throw pretty acurate as well9

I'm a sports junkie.  I pretty much enjoy watching all sports on TV, although soccer and tennis are more of when nothing else is on alternatives.  I did watch a number of World Cup matches and tennis matches at Wimbledon, although I don't really care otherwise.  Growing up I used to play baseball, football, basketball, and street hockey with my buddies.  I was usually one of the better players with my buddies, but then I would play in an organized league or at school at it would turn out that I wasn't very good, I was just better than my buddies.   Nowadays, I am just an old fart relegated to the armchair.  I did go bowling on Sunday for the first time in 2 years, but I rarely participate in sports any more.

Me too.  Although I was at my sister's house a couple of weekends ago, and we were watching some poker training show or something.  The contestant was given a professional card shark coach to offer advice, although the coach couldn't know what the contestant's cards were.  The contestant played against a celebrity card player who was playing for charity.  The particular episode that we watched had the lady from Dancing With The Stars at the celebrity card player.  They were playing Texas Hold' Em, which apparently passes for what is poker these days.

The only time my friends and I would watch poker is if Jennifer Tilly happened to be playing.  Do I need to say why?

UMUR wrote: Too bad. I love going to the games and meeting the boys ( it�s a great social hangout). Some people say it�s like going to church and while I�m by no means religious, I get the comparison.

I guess I'm just too asocial to appreciate that ;-) I don't get the following-one-team mentality; I don't judge people for doing that, but I just don't understand it, if you know what I mean. I did experiment with it when I lived in Manchester, but I ended up picking teams to follow for totally stupid and abstract reasons. I picked Manchester City, because I used to bicycle past their youth training fields on the way to the university, and I picked Arsenal because they played dirty (and everyone else in my house hated them, so I guess that choice was governed by my inner rebel). Anyway, I didn't learn anything from that experiment, but I tried it so you ain't got nuthin' on me ;-)

I do dislike, and judge, those football fans who are violent, drunk, threatening, destructive etc. Those guys are [%&*@]s. But I don't judge those who actually enjoy the game and have a team that they follow. I just don't understand it and I am not interested in it. That being said, I have seen some pretty impressive things - like some dribbling maneuvers (including an amazing move by a Dutch player [Dennis Somethingsomethingsomething], some shots at goal, some saves, some tactical details, some tackles etc. - which even I could see were pretty amazing, but that's never been enough to get me hooked on the game.

I don't like American football either. I find it too boring. I do get the rules and all that, but I still think it's friggin' boring.

I'm not anti-sport, though. I did ju-jitsu for three years as a kid, and later I practised capoeira for more than a decade. I also followed K1 for some time, but it just ended up being a sort of freak show with bulgy American steroid monsters sloppily pummeling each other, so I gave up on that.