RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any sport, what sport would you do away with? Why?
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 7/28/2008 4:16:44 PM
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Bridgitt
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If you had the opportunity to do away with any sport, what sport would you do away with? Why?
Golf
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 7/28/2008 5:41:51 PM
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I can agree with abolishing hot dog eating contests and poker, but not bowling.
Sadly, real wrestling is being abolished because of Title IX requests to ban boys from playing sports.
Don't like to share?  Actually, my wife's HS now has a great women's wrestling team as well as the guys. And that is REAL wrestling and a real sport.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 7/29/2008 8:37:25 AM
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The NBA. It's not a team sport but a collection of narcisists.
Man, if we can ban the NBA but not basketball I'll second what Collie said. :D
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 7/30/2008 3:49:42 PM
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Any female version of a male dominated sport. Sorry ladies... nothing personal. Otherwise, get rid of synchornized swimming, skeet shooting, or just about any other olympic sport. UGH!
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/8/2008 12:55:11 PM
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Boxing. Beating someone up isn't a sport in my opinion. I think it encourages violence.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/8/2008 12:58:24 PM
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sherry1985
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i would have to say golf it is so boreing and make people fall asleep
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/8/2008 3:26:12 PM
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The Olympics. All of it. Except for sports like basketball which can survive outside the context of The Olympics.
Not really, I don't see a need to do away with any sport. But if I had to pick one, this overhyped festival that has outlived its usefulness would be my choice. But if you like it, enjoy yourselves. You'll get all of it you want over the next two weeks.
Well, or "competitive" poker.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/8/2008 3:29:04 PM
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I am wanting to go the opposite way on this...instead of banning, they should start maximizing some sports to their potential:
NASCAR should have speed bumps and slow moving robot cars to simulate city traffic. I would say just have the races on busy city streets but why should the general public be endangered?
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/8/2008 7:16:15 PM
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Football
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/8/2008 8:46:50 PM
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Well, for starters...any kind of sport that utilized a ball of any sort.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/8/2008 11:24:50 PM
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Rufas2000
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Football
There should be Olympic football. We would clean up.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/9/2008 1:30:15 AM
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Football
That's blasphemous. Football actually traces back to Biblical days when Jesus multiplied the fish and the bread. Since He couldn't reach all the multitude, He took a piece of bread and said, "go long!" - from that day forward, it was called a "Hail Mary".
Ever since, football has been modernized with angry men in tight pants and small helmets.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/9/2008 1:47:46 AM
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I never thought of football in those terms. But for Giants in the super bowl ( and I am so glad it happened), it was a definate Hail Mary play. I still proudly wear my teams super bowl t-shirt.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/13/2008 9:06:33 AM
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Absolutely NASCAR. It is just stupid to be having this while gas prices are the way they are! k
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/27/2008 12:36:58 PM
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Soccer! Then pro wrestling and those street fights that pose as some sort of kick boxing martial arts thing. After that, golf and most of the Olympic "sports."
As for NASCAR, they need to go back to the way it used to be (except for the safety features like roll cages, etc.). Do away with restrictor plates. If the car is supposed to be a Chevy, then it has to BE a Chevy. Limit the number of "teams" by an owner to two or three, max.
Ah, yes and then there's basketball! Down here on Tobacco Road, they recognize any other sport, but being from NY originally, I find the NBA totally awful. Abolish the slam dunk, the showboating, or abolish basketball.
Just my humble opinion.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/27/2008 4:29:16 PM
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Women's professional basketball. Sorry, there probably are some very skilled players in it, but overall the whole thing is dull.
Offshoots of football, such as arena football. Again, my apologies to the real fans in the world of those sports. I feel for the both of you.
Any sport where the decisions are made by judges. I admire things like gymnastics and ice skating, but don't like their systems of determining scores.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/28/2008 11:47:23 AM
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Any sport where the decisions are made by judges. I admire things like gymnastics and ice skating, but don't like their systems of determining scores.
I think that statement is perfect.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/29/2008 10:40:53 PM
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Hockey.
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RE: If you had the opportunity to do away with any spor... - 8/29/2008 11:18:21 PM
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Mixed Martial Arts, aka Ultimate Fighting. It started with boxing, then came kick boxing, now it's MMA where just about anything goes. At the end of this road is the Roman Coliseum and the gladiators fighting to the death.
Will that be on Pay-Per-View????
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