Prog and sport

Logos wrote:  But have any of you ever watched curling?

I like curling but ive hear thats a canadian thing

Hey, 40 posts, Im a groupie now

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Motorsports (only on TV... )
VALENTINO ROSSI RULES!

I like bastketball GO LAKERS!(im from LA)
i also like futbol and Judo(good Prog sport)

Any hockey fans?

I used to be a HUUUUGE fan, and play some as well. Though I have largely lost interest the last several years (in the NHL at least), I must say I am nevertheless looking forward to this season as it appears my hapless Chicago Blackhawks are FINALLY a contender again (thanks in no small part to the new Collective Bargaining Agreement's salary rules).

Borealis wrote: ^ I like Hockey too, but will get a real interest if Québec get a team once again. Now I a bit taking for Montréal (well...) and Vancouver. Khabibulin, Aucoin and Lapointe sure are great acquisisions. Montréal ; No change in the team! I wasn't liking them much, but now...

I hear ya man. I'm an American fan but there has been no greater crime in pro sports over the past decade than what Gary Bettman (and others I am sure) has done to the Canadian fans of the sport. It's actually the same type of thing that has killed the Blackhawks in recent years: the inability to compete with teams like Detroit , Colorado and others with so much money to throw around that other teams have basically no chance. Hockey has been screaming for a hard salary cap for years, and I think it will be just what the doctor ordered for smaller market teams.

Citanul wrote: I like cricket, but I prefer rugby to cricket.  In fact, those are the only two sports that South Africa has really been any good at, other than a few isolated incidents in things like swimming, athletics and tennis.

Yeah another vote from me in favor of Rugby ! It is by far the most progressive sport...The build-up of the actions before scoring is as gorgeous as the best prog build-ups by Genesis, Yes...
Of course rugby was better in the 70's, the new rules make it such a stereotyped game (just joking, I'm not old enough to have really known rugby at that time) !
Moreover Rugby is not really well-known and appreciated in the whole world (like prog). Only a few countries have good teams (England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France, Australia, New-Zealand, Argentina ... and I think South Africa too)

Great question! I was one of the few progheads in the Eighties (when we visited a lot of early Marillion gigs with a large group) that played football/soccer, most loved tennis, cricket or squash. I grew up with football and I have always loved the adventure and emotion of that popular sport. I am Dutch but I often went to England to watch Liverpool, Manchester United or Arsenal and I even visited Barcelona to go to see the two eternal rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid. Barca won 1-0 to the joy of the 100.000 specatators, what an incredible atmosphere! My second favorite sport is baseball (my nephew was a pitcher of the Dutch national squad) and my highlight was when I visited a Toronto Blue Jays home game (during my 3 weeks Canada holiday), they won 3-0 against the Cleveland Indians, I enhaled the typcial baseball atmosphere. It's so friendly in comparison with the agression in the Dutch football stadiums, there I often had to flight because of riots! But back to the issue, football and progrock is not a standard combination in Holland!

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You're a fan of the New Jersey Nets, right?

Oh come on, quit pretending, the only sport you all know is ping-pong!

I have a great love of both baseball and hockey.  They seem to fit the seasons they're played in.  As I type this I'm watching the Indians beat the crap out of the Twins 11 to 2 in the fourth.