Should we have a sports-only forum?

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I don’t think the number of sports topics is at the level of needing a new forum.

OTOH, the TV show posts are quite a percentage of Cafe Society. At the moment, the front page of posts has 12 episode-specific TV posts, out of 50. Another 10 on the 2nd page.

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[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
I’ve noticed it as well. I think the SDMB has quite a few members who, in high school, were recipients of wedgies, locker room towel whippings and stuff-the-geek-into-the-locker treatments, who may have thought that the SDMB was a safe haven from the slope-browed, football-liking tormentors of their youth. Can’t blame them for getting a little snarky when it turns out that more than a few sports fans followed them to the secret hideout… :cool:
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Jesus H Christ, how lame is that, I was a big enough geek to letter in Chess for all 4 years of High School and organize the D&D club. I also talked sports with anyone, geeks or jocks. Maybe that was the very reason, I never got wedgies or stuffed in a locker.
**Oakminster ** is a gamer, look at his location; do you really think he was a jock that gave others wedgies? He might have been on a sports team, but I highly doubt he was one of the jerks. *Silenus ** is another great example, lots of wedgies giving slope-brows pick obscure gods for their usernames. The sports fans on this board are mostly geeks also. Indeed, in growing up most nerds become less geeky and most jocks become less jocky. If you do not like sports, just ignore the sports threads. If we jump into a on-line gaming thread to deride on-line gaming, we would be solidly thumped and given warnings.

Jim

  • What is the word I am looking for here, Oh yes, testosterone junkies or a$$holes.
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There’s two things meant by sports: participation and watching. People who are not themselves strong athletes can nevertheless enjoy watching football games on TV – that is, the picked-on geeks that OneCentStamp describes can become sports-geeks, as What Exit comments.

So, discussions about watching (thus, about professional teams, for instance) go in Cafe Society as entertainment or leisure activity.

Discussions about “participation” go in whatever forum seems appropriate, depending on the type of discussion you’re looking for:

  • “What gym should I join?” probably goes in IMHO (looking for an opinion)
  • “Why does moving your head during a golf stroke have so big an effect?” goes in GQ (looking for a factual answer involving physics or whatever)
  • “What’s the best exercise for weight loss?” probably goes in GD.

There’s always a little fuzz around what goes where, because of the way we’re organized. We’ve always said, putting something in the “wrong” forum is not an offense (unless it’s being done deliberately, many times, to disrupt – we had one case of that a few years back.)

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[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Don’t worry, we can take it. :smiley: Why did you leave Dallas fans out though? They are the Yankees of Pro Football.
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Not any more. I haven’t heard that “America’s Team” nonsense in a decade or more.

I generally move sports threads to CS. Not always, but mostly. Yankees threads get deleted. :smiley:

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[QUOTE=Rico]
Yeah! We could call it:

Mundane Pointless Sports I Must Share…

:stuck_out_tongue:
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Silly Primitive Organized Ritual Testosterone Spraying ?

Yes, I once got a wedgie that required medical attention and the basketball team got together on a plan to collectively point and laugh at me in the shower. (Ask me about the Ben-Gay with the towel applicator some time.)

Now I’ve grown up and the debate team captains and A.V. clubbers are calling me a vapid fuckwit because I don’t understand probabilities.

Maybe the idea of an afterlife isn’t so bad after all.