The Song Fight Bulletin Board

mo wrote: ...but i think basketball, hockey, tennis, soccer, are a lot more about individual creativity than actual plays per se. football perhaps--the hail mary, the goal-line stand, clutch field goals--someone like blue who cares about the sport should say their piece about football.

I agree (I think - I actually understood very little of what you wrote) - for me, it's the teamwork in sports such as the football codes that provides the most exhilaration in sport - not the individual creativity of basketballers or tennis players or batsmen/bowlers in cricket. (You are wrong about soccer though - it's all about teamwork and set-plays, so is hockey - but you probably meant ice-hockey - which probably isn't). A well executed backline movement in the Rugby codes is a beautiful thing to watch. I can imagine that American Football may have similar magic moments.

How about MMA? I have always loved watching martial arts. MMA has been an interesting extension of that. I'm not the biggest fan of strikers but for me there's nothing like watching someone make an error and fall prey to a perfect triangle choke.

WTF is MMA?

Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting/ Vale Tudo/ Pankrase/ etc.)

Jens Lehmann's 90th minute penalty save against Villareal! Holy shit, was that some tension. It only happened yesterday, so you can't call it the most exciting play in sports ever, but, wow.

If you're talking sports moments then you can't beat this one:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... rd&pl=true

ok seriously, I love plays like this one:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... rn&pl=true

Tampa's hockey team is in the playoffs and I still picked football (americano)

There is nothing like seeing Rhonde Barber jump up and snag a ball out of the sky. Right out of some smug, arrogant, too big for his britches reciever's grasp. Then to watch him hit the ground running it back up the field in the offense's frantic disbelief. Leaping over a player here, juking another there, all whle making huge strides of progress towards the 6 point glory. Then finally, the last obsticle in his path chases him bravely. The guy who through him the ball in the first place chases him aggressively. Finally his chivalry is extinguished into nothing but the smoldering coals of slapstick hilarity when he hits the ground akwardly after a simple juke and stiff arm. The crowd's feverish decibals mixed with both thrill and anguish are all that are left welcoming him into the end zone.

It's not fair, Americans are split on what sport gives the best moment but I bet you 99% of Canadian voters went with Hockey since that's all they care about.

BOO!

Rone Rivendale wrote:It's not fair, Americans are split on what sport gives the best moment but I bet you 99% of Canadian voters went with Hockey since that's all they care about.

BOO!

All this, and gross sweeping generalizations, too!

I guess all Kansas folks care about is corn, the bible, and.. well, the band Kansas. Right?

Sven wrote:

Rone Rivendale wrote:It's not fair, Americans are split on what sport gives the best moment but I bet you 99% of Canadian voters went with Hockey since that's all they care about.

BOO!

All this, and gross sweeping generalizations, too!

I guess all Kansas folks care about is corn, the bible, and.. well, the band Kansas. Right?

Let's not forget Oz.

Leaf wrote:

Sven wrote:

Rone Rivendale wrote:It's not fair, Americans are split on what sport gives the best moment but I bet you 99% of Canadian voters went with Hockey since that's all they care about.

BOO!

All this, and gross sweeping generalizations, too!

I guess all Kansas folks care about is corn, the bible, and.. well, the band Kansas. Right?

Let's not forget Oz.

well, true... but for sweeping american generalizations:

GO CHEIFS!

Rone Rivendale wrote:II bet you 99% of Canadian voters went with Hockey since that's all they care about.

What about curling? Man, when you've got 3 stones in the house, and all that... wooo yeah curling in the Olympics was pretty cool.

Hoblit wrote: well, true... but for sweeping american generalizations:

GO CHEIFS!

So your sweeping American generalization is that Americans can't spell?
-bill

Actually I like Curling and I'm American lol.
I even have a freeware computer game of it.

Leaf wrote:

Sven wrote:

Rone Rivendale wrote:It's not fair, Americans are split on what sport gives the best moment but I bet you 99% of Canadian voters went with Hockey since that's all they care about.

BOO!

All this, and gross sweeping generalizations, too!

I guess all Kansas folks care about is corn, the bible, and.. well, the band Kansas. Right?

Let's not forget Oz.

Yeah - we love Kansas, corn and the Bible down here in Oz

Rone Rivendale wrote:It's not fair, Americans are split on what sport gives the best moment but I bet you 99% of Canadian voters went with Hockey since that's all they care about.

BOO!

Actually - from a non-American perspective - Americans always look like the fat, wheezy kids of world sport, sitting on the sidelines with notes from their mothers.

While all the cool kids are out playing games with each other, like soccer or rugby or cricket or hockey or netball... - the Americans sit by themselves and make up their own weird little games (like baseball and gridiron football) that nobody else plays (and then they call their baseball competition a "World Series"!). Even basketball - which is a genuine world sport - always seems to look more like some sort of footware advertisement than a game when Team USA is involved

Actually, the Japanese are pretty insane about baseball too.

Sven wrote:Actually, the Japanese are pretty insane about baseball too.

...that still works pretty well in my analogy I think

Curling is one of the few sports I can watch. I don't know why, it might be because there is just something so Pythonesque about it.

Caravan Ray wrote:make up their own weird little games (like baseball and gridiron football) that nobody else plays (and then they call their baseball competition a "World Series"!).

I admit the World Series is poorly named, but how about the World Basball
Classic? China, Taipei, Japan, Korea, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, USA, Cuba, Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico, Australia, Dominican Republic, Italy, and Venezuela all fielded teams. Did you notice the one in the middle?
-bill

HeuristicsInc wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote:make up their own weird little games (like baseball and gridiron football) that nobody else plays (and then they call their baseball competition a "World Series"!).

I admit the World Series is poorly named, but how about the World Basball
Classic? China, Taipei, Japan, Korea, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, USA, Cuba, Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico, Australia, Dominican Republic, Italy, and Venezuela all fielded teams. Did you notice the one in the middle?
-bill

Heh! - The presence of an Aus. team doesn't mean much. I'd challenge you to find any international competition in any sport that doesn't contain somewhere a group of blokes in green and gold tracksuits who are having a nice holiday partially funded by the Department of Sport and Recreation.

Australian's will usually compete in just about any sport available - just on the off chance that there may be a New Zealand team there too - and we can have another go at beating the crap out of them.

I think the usual dominance of the Olympics by the USA takes away any sterotype of us all being fat and lazy.

Just saying, since it was brought up.