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JJLehto
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Posted: May 13 2012 at 09:19 |
Not what I expected.... Was certain it would be: Soccer/Football Handegg Baseball Hockey (maybe bball) Well my favorites aren't listed and I don't like basketball, and don't know team handball So I guess Hockey
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manofmystery
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Posted: May 13 2012 at 09:06 |
Voted for hocky because I enjoy hockey, the first two listed are utter sh*t, and I've never seen team handball. Soccer and basketball have the amazing ability of being equally boring but for completely opposite reasons. One has men of average height slowly plodding up and down a field the size of Central Park for what seems entire days and never scoring, despite having a net 20 times the size of the guy protecting it, while the other has a bunch of tall guys on a small, indoor, court just going back and forth scoring so often that it's pointless to watch anything but the last minute. Also, dunking a basketball is the most overrated thing in all of sports.
Edited by manofmystery - May 13 2012 at 09:06
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Tapfret
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Posted: May 13 2012 at 08:52 |
OT Räihälä wrote:
Handball and ice hockey? Both are minor sports that are played only in a handful of countries. Unfortunately the latter is quite big here, and I simply hate it. Ice hockey is the most un-esthetic pastime you can find, perhaps challenged only by all these rugby type games that are played in Britain, USA and Australia/NZ. I also hate the machismo attitude of ice hockey.
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Machismo attitude? Who would consider such a horrible thing existing amongst male competitive athletes?
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 13 2012 at 05:55 |
OT Räihälä wrote:
aginor wrote:
four very distinct sports, with different elements, but also share simialritys, all are tacktical, sort of global, and are captivating but it is often the truth that most ether love 2 out of 4 or 1 out of 4, i have rarely met anyone who is equaly found of all, or a country who is eqaly solid in all four sports (exept maby France who is quite dominant in soccer, and handball, is respective in basketball and not a slouch at hockey), Russia is also quite solid in 3 out of 4 sports, Hockey and Handball they can be seen as top 3, they are competable in Soccer and i think they are okey in basketball,
US is quite dominant in Basket and hockey, hmm not really that bad in Soccer ether (were ranked 6 once) and have been in some quarterfinals, which is quite good actualy for a non-national sport, team handball have less follovers then syncronswimming and water polo (not dissing any of those sports, just hinting that thier popularity is higher ), but the lady handball team is quite okay, even qualified for playing in the olympics in China,
UK have ceveral national teams (4 ), which all can be quite fierce and can beat of any national team (with the pausible exeption of Northern Ireland), they have a hockey olympic gold medal, though the team were canadian citysens, handball is even less popular then in US, and i guess they are quite okey in basketball,
so what is your favorite team sport out of these four types
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Handball and ice hockey? Both are minor sports that are played only in a handful of countries. Unfortunately the latter is quite big here, and I simply hate it. Ice hockey is the most un-esthetic pastime you can find, perhaps challenged only by all these rugby type games that are played in Britain, USA and Australia/NZ. I also hate the machismo attitude of ice hockey.
Basketball is fun to play, not to watch. Footy is both. |
Rugby Union is a beautiful and passionate game.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 13 2012 at 05:54 |
If you mean Ice Hockey you should put Ice Hockey as Hockey is another game.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 13 2012 at 05:53 |
Football I guess. Not four sports I would have chosen for a poll. I loathe basketball. Horrible squeeky sweaty game.
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OT Räihälä
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Posted: May 13 2012 at 05:49 |
aginor wrote:
four very distinct sports, with different elements, but also share simialritys, all are tacktical, sort of global, and are captivating but it is often the truth that most ether love 2 out of 4 or 1 out of 4, i have rarely met anyone who is equaly found of all, or a country who is eqaly solid in all four sports (exept maby France who is quite dominant in soccer, and handball, is respective in basketball and not a slouch at hockey), Russia is also quite solid in 3 out of 4 sports, Hockey and Handball they can be seen as top 3, they are competable in Soccer and i think they are okey in basketball,
US is quite dominant in Basket and hockey, hmm not really that bad in Soccer ether (were ranked 6 once) and have been in some quarterfinals, which is quite good actualy for a non-national sport, team handball have less follovers then syncronswimming and water polo (not dissing any of those sports, just hinting that thier popularity is higher ), but the lady handball team is quite okay, even qualified for playing in the olympics in China,
UK have ceveral national teams (4 ), which all can be quite fierce and can beat of any national team (with the pausible exeption of Northern Ireland), they have a hockey olympic gold medal, though the team were canadian citysens, handball is even less popular then in US, and i guess they are quite okey in basketball,
so what is your favorite team sport out of these four types
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Handball and ice hockey? Both are minor sports that are played only in a handful of countries. Unfortunately the latter is quite big here, and I simply hate it. Ice hockey is the most un-esthetic pastime you can find, perhaps challenged only by all these rugby type games that are played in Britain, USA and Australia/NZ. I also hate the machismo attitude of ice hockey.
Basketball is fun to play, not to watch. Footy is both.
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Icarium
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Posted: May 13 2012 at 04:41 |
four very distinct sports, with different elements, but also share simialritys, all are tacktical, sort of global, and are captivating but it is often the truth that most ether love 2 out of 4 or 1 out of 4, i have rarely met anyone who is equaly found of all, or a country who is eqaly solid in all four sports (exept maby France who is quite dominant in soccer, and handball, is respective in basketball and not a slouch at hockey), Russia is also quite solid in 3 out of 4 sports, Hockey and Handball they can be seen as top 3, they are competable in Soccer and i think they are okey in basketball, US is quite dominant in Basket and hockey, hmm not really that bad in Soccer ether (were ranked 6 once) and have been in some quarterfinals, which is quite good actualy for a non-national sport, team handball have less follovers then syncronswimming and water polo (not dissing any of those sports, just hinting that thier popularity is higher ), but the lady handball team is quite okay, even qualified for playing in the olympics in China, UK have ceveral national teams (4 ), which all can be quite fierce and can beat of any national team (with the pausible exeption of Northern Ireland), they have a hockey olympic gold medal, though the team were canadian citysens, handball is even less popular then in US, and i guess they are quite okey in basketball, so what is your favorite team sport out of these four types
Edited by aginor - May 13 2012 at 08:00
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