#1Feb 1st, 2007
Why?
Fav Sports
#2
Re: Fav Sports
Feb 1st, 2007
Rugby (followed by real football and lacrosse). There's constant action, it's rough, and it's a real team sport. (Of course, making whooppee can qualify for all that, too 
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#3
Re: Fav Sports
Feb 1st, 2007
Hockey &Lacrosse. I grew up playing both, now they are the 2 primary sports I like to watch.
#4
Re: Fav Sports
Feb 1st, 2007
Depends what you define as a sport, or how in fact it's used......
I'm a 3rd brown sash in Hung Leng Kuen Kung Fu (which is a mixture of Monkey, Snake, Eagle, Crane, Dragon, Leopard, Tiger and Wing Chung systems...as well as Tai Chi Chuan) that takes up a fair bit of my time and I've been doing it for 4 years off and on.
Other than that, I'm a HUGE Football (soccer) fan (playing and watching)...I also play criket and am partial to a bit of badmington.....I also like to run (but havent much lately).....
I'm a 3rd brown sash in Hung Leng Kuen Kung Fu (which is a mixture of Monkey, Snake, Eagle, Crane, Dragon, Leopard, Tiger and Wing Chung systems...as well as Tai Chi Chuan) that takes up a fair bit of my time and I've been doing it for 4 years off and on.
Other than that, I'm a HUGE Football (soccer) fan (playing and watching)...I also play criket and am partial to a bit of badmington.....I also like to run (but havent much lately).....
#5
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Feb 1st, 2007
Well my fav sport is Basketball and I really enjoy watching NBA. I like playng football, baseball, soccer, badminton, tennis, and volleyball. I'm really active, but sad but true I'm kinda fat! LOL
Basketball is the only sport I watch.
Basketball is the only sport I watch.
#6
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Feb 1st, 2007
O by the way, does anyone wanna explain the game of cricket, lacrosse, rugby?
Is rugby somewhat like football (not soccer)?
Is rugby somewhat like football (not soccer)?
#7
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Feb 2nd, 2007Quote: Originally Posted by Nightmare
In the dark old days of Britain, there were many (and I do mean many, types of football), the oldest dates back to a village up north some where, where the uptown half of the population would take on the downside and they'd chase each other with a ball using any part of their body.O by the way, does anyone wanna explain the game of cricket, lacrosse, rugby?
Is rugby somewhat like football (not soccer)?
This was refined into just using your feet (excluding the goal keeper) and was thus called "football" in private and state schools.....then one day, legend has it, a boy, at Harrow prep school decided to pick the ball up and run with it, not using his feet to kick at all.....and this became Rugby.
Football bacame pretty organised at this time and associations, regional and national were set up....public schools didnt like this and often mocked it by calling it "SOCcer", kind of an insulting play on aSOCiation football. But efectively these two codes were spilt in the UK.
Rugby is very similar to American football or Grid Iron, players have often transferred over....but Rugby is play without helmets or any other saftey guard and can get very violent. Criket?....well, think of Baseball on the ground with just 2 stumps and lasting for days on end....Laccrosse?...ask a Canadian.
#12
Re: Fav Sports
Feb 3rd, 2007
HOCKEY! of course, this is Canada after all. What kind of guy in this country DOSEN'T like hockey?????
#13
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Feb 3rd, 2007
I don't play as many sports as I used to. I played Hockey, Baseball, Soccer, Basketball and Tennis. Now I play road hockey, tennis in the summer, as well as rock climbing and sea surf kayaking. My favorite sports to watch are hockey, tennis and football. I used to enjoy soccer but now I can't stand the dives. If we had done that in high school, our coach would have flipped out.
#14
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Feb 3rd, 2007Quote: Originally Posted by Daz_Hockey
Hah! There are waaaaay more differences between rugby and foolball than there are similarities.Rugby is very similar to American football or Grid Iron, players have often transferred over....but Rugby is play without helmets or any other saftey guard and can get very violent.
Similarities:
the basic shape of the ball,
the "touch"(rugby) and "touchdown"(foolball). [Um, in rugby one actually has to touch the ball down on the ground, whereas in foolball one only has to cross the touch line.] Go figger,
the footgear,
and the boot over the bar.
Differences:
the specific shape of the ball,
no padding in rugby (except for the nutcup and some players wear ear protectors and teethguards),
rules are different,
scoring is different,
rugby players don't stop every few seconds to figure out what they're going to do next,
rugby has a halftime and that's it,
rugby is a team sport such that the game doesn't hinge on 2 or 3 players (the quarterback and a couple receivers),
in rugby there is no forward passing,
in rugby the game doesn't stop because some player got a scratch or a bloody beak and the play continues,
penalties are such that causing a death in an infraction is punishable by ejection fromnm the game, causing serious injury in an infraction uis punishable by a couple minutes off the field, and blood letting is ignored,
rugby players just play and don't have to learn a big pile of fancy manouvers,
etc.
etc.
etc.
After a few years of rugby, I tried playing foolball in a school where they didn't have a rugby team and found it excruciatingly tedious.
#15
Re: Fav Sports
Feb 3rd, 2007
My fave is poking holes through the atmosphere with speeding little nuggets of lead...then through the black dot in the center of a piece of paper...
With a handgun from a minimum of thirty meters and with a long gun out to three or four hundred yards...
With a handgun from a minimum of thirty meters and with a long gun out to three or four hundred yards...
#16
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Feb 3rd, 2007
I'm rather fond of tennis, golf and volleyball......though haven't played volleyball in at least two million years
#17
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Feb 3rd, 2007Quote:
I like that, too. But most of the time it's plugging holes in pinecones, knots in stumps, etc.My fave is poking holes through the atmosphere with speeding little nuggets of lead...then through the black dot in the center of a piece of paper...
With a handgun from a minimum of thirty meters and with a long gun out to three or four hundred yards...
While I was in the Okanagan I preferred long range big bore shooting to that short range stuff.
I have a .338 Lapua chambered Anshutz rifle with a Unertl scope for long range (1000 yds).
#18
Re: Fav Sports
Feb 3rd, 2007
Hey marygaspe...
Keep at the volleyball and maybe you can rise to stardom in the Olypic Beach Volleyball events...
I've always chuckled at the mental image of Socrates and Plato playing Beach volleyball along with all their good friends at the early Greek olympics....
Keep at the volleyball and maybe you can rise to stardom in the Olypic Beach Volleyball events...
I've always chuckled at the mental image of Socrates and Plato playing Beach volleyball along with all their good friends at the early Greek olympics....
#19
Re: Fav Sports
Feb 3rd, 2007
Great for perimeter defense. Best group I ever got anywhere near that range was with a firearm that'd probably suprise you...an AR-15
#20
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Feb 3rd, 2007Quote: Originally Posted by MikeyDB
Hey marygaspe...
Keep at the volleyball and maybe you can rise to stardom in the Olypic Beach Volleyball events...
I've always chuckled at the mental image of Socrates and Plato playing Beach volleyball along with all their good friends at the early Greek olympics....
You never know
#21
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Feb 3rd, 2007Quote: Originally Posted by L Gilbert
I agree, but it's much more like Rugby than Football....I wont call it soccer because as previously mentioned, soccer is actually an insulting term for people who know what it means.Hah! There are waaaaay more differences between rugby and foolball than there are similarities.
#22
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Feb 3rd, 2007Quote: Originally Posted by MikeyDB
No surprise at all.. I have a Mossberg target .22 with peep sights that I use on calm days for putting lotsa rounds in 5" paper at 300 yds.Great for perimeter defense. Best group I ever got anywhere near that range was with a firearm that'd probably suprise you...an AR-15
#23
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Feb 3rd, 2007Quote: Originally Posted by Daz_Hockey
lol I agree, but it's much more like Rugby than Football....I wont call it soccer because as previously mentioned, soccer is actually an insulting term for people who know what it means.
I agree, but I was actually referring to your comment that rugby is very similar to American foolball.
#24
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Feb 3rd, 2007Quote: Originally Posted by L Gilbert
wires crossed again lol....I meant that american football was more like rugby than English football.lol
I agree, but I was actually referring to your comment that rugby is very similar to American foolball.
#26
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Feb 3rd, 2007Quote: Originally Posted by L Gilbert
erm...less said about that the better, for fear of a scot or welsh person complainng that you think they talk like an englishmanrofl. You Brits always did talk funny.
#27
Re: Fav Sports
Feb 3rd, 2007
When I was 9 yrs. old, one day I was just lying around on the sofa, and the radio was playing,
(before t.v.), and I began to pay attention, it was Foster Hewitt "calling" a hockey game. Well,
I had never heard of hockey, and I began to pay attention, and by the end of the game I was
right into it, and wanted the "Montreal Canadians" to win, and they did. I have never looked back,
kept listening, I love hockey, began to attend games, then when tv arrived, thought that was amazing, and now I have NHL Center Ice, and watch hockey games almost every night, with my
husband.
Like lots of other sports too, but not quite as much.
I like to golf too, and here on the island, we can golf all year round, so it can fill up a dreary dull
day quite nicely.
Some say that a nice walk is ruined by playing golf, but I say why go for a boring walk, when you
can take a club and a ball and bat it around along the way.
(before t.v.), and I began to pay attention, it was Foster Hewitt "calling" a hockey game. Well,
I had never heard of hockey, and I began to pay attention, and by the end of the game I was
right into it, and wanted the "Montreal Canadians" to win, and they did. I have never looked back,
kept listening, I love hockey, began to attend games, then when tv arrived, thought that was amazing, and now I have NHL Center Ice, and watch hockey games almost every night, with my
husband.
Like lots of other sports too, but not quite as much.
I like to golf too, and here on the island, we can golf all year round, so it can fill up a dreary dull
day quite nicely.
Some say that a nice walk is ruined by playing golf, but I say why go for a boring walk, when you
can take a club and a ball and bat it around along the way.
#28
Re: Fav Sports
Feb 3rd, 2007Quote: Originally Posted by Nightmare
-- is a sport to me and I guess I play to win What's your fav sport of all time?(Watch or Play)
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