Man, I was just blown away by the atheletes in these sports. Wakeboarding, skateboarding, freestyle motox, bike dirt jumping(this was a total trip), and other complex and complicated skill sports.
I mean these games just blow away watching a football game as far as entertainment value. It was like watching a stunt show in Hollywood. I mean these kids are modern day gladiators with no fear. I mean the down hill bike jumps were just incredible. They start on a downhill ramp at least 30 foot high then go through a series of supercross type jumps and they were flipping spinning and extending their bodies away from these bikes over 25 feet in the air. Then sometimes they would bone ass hard into the dirt some with only just a half helmet causing blood to go everywhere.
I mean even when they crashed and got bloody they got up and jumped again. I mean these dudes made the pro winny rich footballs player look like total wimps compared to these true atheletes that were competing their hearts out just for a medal.
Anyway I hope one day these sports will be as popular as chasing around a pigskin so these truly talanted no fear atheletes can get at least half the money these football, baseball and bastketball players get.
My major complaint about classical music is that they don’t bone ass hard into the dirt causing blood to go everywhere. I think it would really improve Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
Brothers and sisters it is indeed a solemn day. As per the pact I made with myself, lo those many months ago, I am now compelled to perform the ritual act of sepiku.
I find myself not only agreeing with WildestBill, but I also feel the yearn to stand and applaud the content of his OP (grammar and “I means” notwithstanding).
This is without a doubt a portent that the end is nigh.
Nah, I can appreciate their skill and even their toughness. But as a sport I have to say ‘no way’ - at least for most of them. I just don’t respect as sports anything that requires subjective judging. Yes, that includes figure skating, diving, and even boxing to an extent.
Well, I don’t know about that. NFL players routinely start in games with assorted pulls, sprains, and whatnot. Lawrence Taylor played the 1991 Super Bowl with a torn pectoral, torn Achilles tendon, and a broken ankle. Dedicated athletes tend to play through pain, regardless of the sport.
Still, aside from that I agree with the OP. One of the most exciting things I’ve ever seen in a sporting event was Tony Hawk pulling a 900 in the '99 X-Games.
It’s a skateboarding trick, done off of a vert ramp. The 900 refers to the number of degrees of revolution the skater does in the air. So 360 = 360 degrees = 1 revolution, 720 = 2 revolutions, and 900 = 2 1/2 revolutions. AFAIK, Tony Hawk is the only one to pull it off in competition.
The only sports I will go out of my way to watch are martial arts tournaments and boxing. Sometimes strongman competitions, but not for too long because they’re all the same.
Which is weird, because the reason I’d prefer watching “x” sports over conventional sports (baseball, football, etc.) is because steroids probably aren’t used in “x” sports. I don’t see what good steroids would do if you’re jumping things with your bike. It seems a bit more pure to me.
And, if you know anything about the first three sports I mentioned, you’ll know they’re usually groupings of steroid monkeys.
I don’t know that I would pay to watch them like I would a baseball game (fie on you who say anything bad about baseball), but I saw a little bit of a bike competition over the weekend on one of the networks and was pretty impressed with the skill. It’s certainly more of a sport than frigging NASCAR, anyway.
Let’s see one of your street lugers get knocked down by a 330-pound linebacker and hop right up again.
And look where Tony Hawks persuit of pure competition without economic gain got him, why he’s practically a pauper. When you watch the X-games and see those logos on everything? That’s what most of those competitors are hoping for; logos of their own.
I’ve nothing against the X-Games and enjoy watching most of them, but one was on the TV in the restaurant where I ate last night. People were essentially doing high jumps on a motorcycle. They’d go up a ramp and try to get the bike over a bar. I’m not saying it doesn’t involve skill, but it is still a stupid event.
I never heard of a high jump for motocross bikes. Was it cool? And I am not talking about street lugers that looks a pretty easy sport to me compared to the bikes, boards and skates. Also I would like to a 330 pound linebacker even ride one of those little bikes. That would be funny.
I dunno, though it’s more impressive to see these people doing such spectacular things, I don’t really get the enthusiasm I watch when seeing Team Sports (I’m talking about high school basketball games and the like here, I’m not at all a fan of the higher level ones.)
Just out of curosity, which catogory would field show band fall under? Seems to work for both, and THAT is impressive to me. Of course, I’m biased. Go Santa Clara!
Yet in the sports Wildest Bill mentions, the sole objective is to get the judges to give you a high score. Referees in football games may admire the beauty of a perfectly excuted flea-flicker play, but if you don’t get the ball in the end zone, you don’t get the six points. In other words, you can execute part of the game to perfection and still lose. This is why I find team sports so compelling. This is not to say, however, that I don’t think of the X Games and skating, etc. as sports.
