I have googled on Shirling. but can’t find it.
Anyone want to tell me what the hell it is?
Are you possibly referring to shinty?
ElwoodCuse, I can’t help but laugh.
So… golf is more physical than auto racing. You have obviously never paid much attention to the latter.
Maybe the Irish game of Hurling? A game that, when you slow down, you retire from and take a gentler game - like Aussie Rules Football?
Maybe we should make figure skating a sport again - Ultimate Figure Skating - put all the pairs out at once, and the last pair standing wins…“Tonya has a pipe…OOOHHH!!! Nancy’s down!..”
Lamest “sports” to watch on TV(yes, I know I’m changing the criteria)
1.Professional women’s golf. 'Nuff said.
2. Anything involving a car, though NASCAR is, in my view, slightly less offensive than Formula One racing (or whatever it’s called) because the cars don’t all look the same and the drivers are more ‘colorful’ (i.e., redneck personality forced into the media spotlight and doused with champagne after a win).
Sorry, I posted before I finished my darn list. Let me add . . .
- All variations of bowling.
- Anything using a rifle and a paper target
- All types of golf not mentioned in #1.
- Hmmm. I know there are some others, but I’m drawing a blank right now.
Ok, I’m breaking some rule posting 3 times in a row, but I’d hate to leave out . . .
7. Anything whose outcome is predetermined, such as ‘Professional’ ‘Wrestling’ or ‘Professional’ boxing (the latter is also objectionable because of the inevitable camera shot of Don King’s hair).
In defense of professional wrestling, Pablito, it’s been a while since they bothered with the pretense that it was a sport.
Racin, I don’t mean to say that golf is tougher on the body than 500 miles in a race car. My point is this. Does auto racing require physical strength as a skill? Yes, you have to sit in a broiling car for hours and endure G forces, but it’s not a test of how hard you can push the pedal. As I see it, the skills involved in auto racing are mental (strategy and positioning) and mechanical (designing the actual car).
It’s not strength, but clearly there’s some dexterity involved in passing between another couple of cars driving four times as fast as the speed limit in most places with a few inches of clearance on either side.
It’s not strength so much as it is stamina. Professional race car drivers work out on a regular basis and those that don’t don’t perform as well. Hours of driving and manhandling the car in intense heat takes its toll on you physically. It’s not like a leisurely drive to the mall during Christmas season.
And I’d like to add…golf.
Hey, lay off golf. There’s more fatties in Major League Baseball than the PGA Tour.
John Kruk’s autobiography is titled, “I Ain’t an Athlete, I’m a Baseball Player”.
I rest my case.
Some fine sentiments!
Here’s what I object to: Some “invented last year”, “we’re wonderfully hip and extreme”, “admire us because we have huge adolescent egos” sports.
Sorry. I watch sports (rarely) because I want to see classic confrontations between trained experts. I want to appreciate skills I can only imagine on a good day.
I don’t agree that skateboarding or curling are inherently worthless skills. However. I do have to ask why, if these guys are so good, they couldn’t compete in one of the traditional sports. Just to stave off a knee-jerk reaction, I’ll posit an answer: The skateboarders can’t compete, so they’re inventing their own rules. Big f****** deal.