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Tapfret
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Topic: What sports do progsters follow? Posted: August 15 2007 at 17:43 |
The art crowd is stereotyped as being non-competitive when it comes to sports and athletics.
Are these tongue cluckers right?
I think not.
Show 'em what your made of!
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Melomaniac
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 17:48 |
As a Montrealer, Hockey is a religion. No wonder, since we have the hockey team with the most prestigious history worldwide, the Montreal Canadiens.
I catch as many games as I can on TV and try to go see a few games every now and then.
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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NotAProghead
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:01 |
Figure scating (watch).
Edited by NotAProghead - August 16 2007 at 09:53
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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Vompatti
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:07 |
Figure skating is so beautiful that I consider it art, not sport.
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stonebeard
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:13 |
Nothing, really. I'm fairly active in cycling myself, but don't watch it. I might watch a soccer game if I stumble across one and I'm in the right mood for it.
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chamberry
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:21 |
Skateboarding!
I've been skateboarding for almost 6 years now and I couldn't imagine myself without it. I've learned so many people and had many great experience through it that I wouldn't change it for anything.
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Atkingani
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:30 |
Football (Soccer).
However, in the list I miss the only sport I played intensely since my teenagers: volleyball (indoor & beach). I played also football and futsal (indoor soccer) but left them when the first grey hairs appeared.
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Apsalar
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:33 |
I'm not really a fanatic follower of any sport, for most parts I cannot stand watching it, but I guess by default I'm roped into the Track and field scene. I do watch a soccer game every weekend, showing my friend moral support. Plus I do my healthy share of Mountain biking.
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Dean
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:38 |
Yep, count me as one of the weedy non-competitive anti-sports arty crowd. I do watch the Tour de France cycle race every year (sometimes live but mostly on TV) but that's about it. Actually I'm ridiculously over-competitive, but hoplessly inept at every sport I've ever attempted, which makes the whole it's not the winning it's the taking part ethic so unpleasantly displeasing when you have absolutely zero chance of winning anything other than bruises and sympathy, when what you really want to do is grind your opponents face into the dirt (which didn't go down well at the chess club) - If I can't win I really do want to get even, so the only solution is not to compete in the first place. {I've tried them all: canoe polo, roller hockey, field hockey, football, judo, rugby, cricket, squash, badmington, rounders, netball, darts, cheese skittles, dominoes, croquet, bowls, running, jumping, standing still - absolute rubbish at each one} - I can waffle for England - does that count?
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:39 |
US Football RULES
Also like hockey,lacrosse(very big here in Maryland),skateboarding and snowboarding.
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Chicapah
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 19:24 |
US football whether it's pro, college or high school is fascinating to me. It's the only sport that I will sit through an entire game.
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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Logos
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Posted: August 16 2007 at 03:13 |
Football. (Not the US crap, real football, where they actually kick the ball, with their feet. Hence the name.)
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BaldFriede
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Posted: August 16 2007 at 03:54 |
Mostly tennis for us. I was able to convince Jean of soccer and converted her into a Schalke fan, like all of my family. She did not quite manage to turn me into American football and becoming a Raiders fan, though I definitely prefer American football to baseball. But tennis is the sport we play ourselves.
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N Ellingworth
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Posted: August 16 2007 at 03:58 |
I'm a motorsport nut, my main interests within motorsport are F1, GTs, LMPs (Le Man Prototypes) and Historic racing but it's all good.
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limeyrob
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Posted: August 16 2007 at 04:01 |
I was looking down the list looking for the world's greatest game. It's not there.
Then I looked at where Tapfret comes from.
My chum across the pond you have missed out -------------
CRICKET
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Man Erg
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Posted: August 16 2007 at 04:09 |
Cricket.
Not that I take part but,fishing isn't on the list.
Apparently,it's the UK's largest participant sport.
Oh! and 'indoor sports'
Edited by Man Erg - August 17 2007 at 05:15
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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The Whistler
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Posted: August 16 2007 at 04:18 |
Ugh! Where's sumo, the greatest of all west/east coast sports? I used to follow it madly, until it stopped being aired...
I can't say that I follow it, but after googin' Ferret Legging, I can say without a resonable doubt that it's to be my newest sport, so I guess it takes my vote.
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"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson
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andu
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Posted: August 16 2007 at 06:39 |
BaldFriede wrote:
Mostly tennis for us. I was able to convince Jean of soccer and converted her into a Schalke fan, like all of my family. She did not quite manage to turn me into American football and becoming a Raiders fan, though I definitely prefer American football to baseball. But tennis is the sport we play ourselves.
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It must have been a bitter year seeing Schalke losing the title so stupidly on the last turn
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Ricochet
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Posted: August 16 2007 at 06:43 |
I'm antithetic to sports, out of, mainly, being lazy to get into any. Of course, some are dangerous for my hands, but others, like swimming (which I dislike), are well-indicated. I like instead to watch some sports. Not football, the entire stupidness and weak-play in my country makes me reticent to it , but mainly some great tennis (I'm actually a good fan, as of late), figure skating (and wintersports), some athletic games, snooker etc.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: August 16 2007 at 07:12 |
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BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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