O/T: NBA FInals

"Swingman" wrote

You were stationed at Fort Bliss?? Jeez, I'm sorry. So was I. Guided Missile school, 1951. ;-)

I watch Formula One and IRL and I would much rather be a participant than a spectator but...............

Max

I want K-1 kickboxing and Muay Thai bouts. Those were truly hootilicious. It makes prize fighting pale in comparison. Well, 'cept for Mike Tyson's popcorn bouts. Cook up a batch of popcorn and watch all of Tyson's fights before you're done with the corn. (Well, the pre-biting bouts, anyway.) K-1 is one of the very few things I truly miss from my TV years. They had a dozen or so contestants and the winners of each pair fought until they had an ultimate winner. Some guys went through four fights in a row. THAT is Fight Night, guys.

I just found this. We'll see how it is now.

some old highlights: Kicks at 5 mins are vicious.

-- Never underestimate the innate animosity of inanimate objects. --anon

Alcohol fuel + nitro methane + burnt rubber tires + noise you can FEEL provide some mighty big grins. The sound of 1,500 horsepower crackling, just trying to idle, is a wonderful sound you won't forget.

-- Never underestimate the innate animosity of inanimate objects. --anon

I like football, but the modern fixation on sports is a sickness. When the NFL went on strike the first time, I almost gave up watching. The second time did the trick. Now they're off again? How many fans do they have left? $2M for a 30-second spot on the Stupor Bowel? Gimme a break. It's all out of control as badly as Congress. Won't someone please hit the RESET button?

What a wonderful ending for a 3rd Strike felon! The tigers wouldn't need to be fed, nor would the criminals. Recidivism rate from that setup would be zero, too.

-- Never underestimate the innate animosity of inanimate objects. --anon

Tell it brother!!!!

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Lew

Max wrote the following:

Although very rare in th US, but sometimes shown, are Professional Dart tournaments. I am a dart player and was once a VP of a County dart league (the steel darts, not the electronic plastic darts). I'm mostly Irish, in case it matters. :-)

My definition of sports is any activity that attracts paying spectators.

What about those women who climb up and down on those poles? What do they call that sport? Skiiing? ; )

What about those women who climb up and down on those poles? What do they call that sport? Skiiing? ; )

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Which "pole" are you referring to? Stop making me drool on my stain.

So a rock concert is "sports"?

Do YOU think it's sports?

Sure. After a couple pills and a few joints, =all= the women there are real sports, IIRC from so long ago.

-- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. --Herbert Spencer

Don't know how you'd watch that on TV. No smoke, nobody spilling beer on you, no pee smelly bathrooms .... No Risk.

Jeez, there's three minutes wasted. Just tape it and watch the good bits, bypassing ref time outs and so on.

Boxing can be a great sport to watch if there are two closely matched fighters, both with good KO ratios, etc. To see two big heavyweights going toe-to-toe can be spectacular. Or the insane flurries of lighter weight classes. Back in the 70's, I laid out quite a few bucks to go see great fights on closed circuit pay per views. Hell, I even paid to see Foreman fight the 'Toronto Five' live. What a farce that was. (If you don't know what that fight was all about, don't waste your time Googling it, what an embarrassment to the sport.)

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Sport?? Boxing??? Take a look at Ali.

Lobby Dosser wrote the following:

I smoke, I drink Beer and sometimes spill it on myself. My wife won't let me have a smelly bathroom, so I pee in a corner of the basement., just for the ambiance. :-)

Lobby Dosser wrote the following:

Does MIT have any teams?? Yet they seem to rake in big bucks from alumni ,,,