Topic: WE LIKE SPORTS (Read 582845 times)

Patrick · « **Reply #3550 on:** 22 Jan 2015, 09:38 »

I plan on only watching halftime strictly because I wanna nail Katy Perry and I don't give half a flying shit about hand egg.

explicit · « **Reply #3551 on:** 22 Jan 2015, 12:27 »

American football is best football! You take that back!

I highly doubt I'm gonna get much support on that one here.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3552 on:** 22 Jan 2015, 12:38 »

If you're going to play hand egg, at least make it Rugby. There's no need for all that armour and stop start game play.

explicit · « **Reply #3553 on:** 22 Jan 2015, 12:57 »

If you wanna see a bunch of people jog around the whole time then sure. People also don't take into account that because people don't wear pads in rugby they don't hit each other as hard. Don't get me wrong, rugby's still more badass, they just don't run into each other as hard.

But I am biased, I did play American football for 14 years and throughout college. Probably not the best idea, what with the chronic back pain and messed up hips I got now. Also, pretty sure bunch of concussions.

Patrick · « **Reply #3554 on:** 22 Jan 2015, 14:11 »

American football has no hakas.

Patrick · « **Reply #3555 on:** 22 Jan 2015, 14:11 »

Also, I am biased because I saw that band and I think they are dicks

hedgie · « **Reply #3556 on:** 22 Jan 2015, 16:37 »

Quote from: Patrick on 22 Jan 2015, 09:38

I plan on only watching halftime strictly because I wanna nail Katy Perry and I don't give half a flying shit about hand egg.

Funny. Whenever I hear Katy Perry, I want to drive nails into my ears to get rid of that over-autotuned noise. If I want horrid noise, I have Merzbow to listen to.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #3557 on:** 22 Jan 2015, 18:30 »

Quote from: Patrick on 22 Jan 2015, 09:38

I plan on only watching halftime strictly because I wanna nail Katy Perry

There's something I never thought I'd read on QC forums.

Quote from: Patrick on 22 Jan 2015, 14:11

American football has no hakas.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3558 on:** 23 Jan 2015, 01:03 »

I played American Football, and I played Rugby, in every respect, Rugby is the superior sport. Albeit I played briefly on a Marine Corps base team, so we still hit pretty fucking hard.

Patrick · « **Reply #3559 on:** 23 Jan 2015, 05:08 »

Who doesn't wanna nail Katy Perry? She's a total babe. I can even put up with some of her later stuff. And I work retail! What are the odds of that

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3560 on:** 23 Jan 2015, 06:05 »

I'm not saying I would reject her out of hand but on the general famous person physical attractiveness scale I rate Perry as Meh.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #3561 on:** 23 Jan 2015, 10:24 »

I like redheads.

explicit · « **Reply #3562 on:** 23 Jan 2015, 12:51 »

I mean, I would, but to be fair I'd have sex with a lot of people.

Patrick · « **Reply #3563 on:** 23 Jan 2015, 23:23 »

I would have sex with a lot of people too. Explains my success rate last year.

Man. The NHL All-Star Break is really getting me down. I am excited about the partnership with GoPro though. Holy butts, talk about a cool promo video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1jpCBPiWS4

osaka · « **Reply #3564 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 06:38 »

Spain is first in its group of the Handball World Cup moving on to 1/8th finals. Also, Argentina - Russia for the last spot of their group and Egypt with the possibility to throw one of the regulars under the train. DIS GON B GUD.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3565 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 08:39 »

Handball... That's basically soccer without feet, right?

osaka · « **Reply #3566 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 08:50 »

Maybe in the 1910s, when they used actual soccer fields for it. Modern day Olympic Handball is played indoors and people get thoroughly fucked up in the process because it's a contact sport. Also it's 7v7 and there are different levels of penalties and shit.

It's been proved that it's impossible to call all fouls that happen in a game by a human being

Ruleset can get a bit messy, but I'm just going to say that I used to play that sport (in the center and wing positions), Spain is twice world champion (yay) and german handball teams are THE worse kind of people in the planet. Including team Germany.

Which is actually going past as group leader when they shouldn't even be in this cup. Talk about favoritism.

Orkboy · « **Reply #3567 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 10:56 »

Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 22 Jan 2015, 12:38

no need for all that armour

Look up Joe Theismann. And Dennis Byrd, while we're at it.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3568 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 12:09 »

There's been career ending injuries in rugby as well. But then, so has football, cycling, judo, tennis, shinty, and just about any other sport. The issue isn't just that an injury might happen but having a proper understanding of the risk of that sort of injury occurring.

osaka · « **Reply #3569 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 12:17 »

The thing I don't like about team France in handball is that they really are scrubs under all their "titles" and "prowess" and shit. Because I've seen how the refs treat them. It's ridiculous.

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The rant under the spoiler comes because I've just seen some of the poorest refereeing of all time, in a game where France had the game literally given to them by way of just not calling what should be called when dudes in white jerseys did it. There were elbows to faces that were played off, fouls that weren't called but got a Swedish guy out, 4 penalty shots in 10 minutes (9 in the entire game), 10 minutes of absolute ref blockout to Sweden... Just horrible. The only thing they called in favor of Sweden those 10 minutes was a chokeslam.

I'm dead serious. A french dude went for the chokeslam on a Swedish dude.

And it's been like that since World Cup 2009. They even went 3 years without losing a single match after that, and I can say that my town team could do that as well with the ref work they were given.

The worst part is that they're always praised as if they were amazing by everyone, because they do have a nice record and a bunch of titles, but every single game the commentators leave like "But they were given the game tho. What a piss poor ref work". It's constant. And I hate that.

Seriously, if 9/27 of your goals are penalty shots with no player penalty assigned to them you're not a world class team. You're a bunch of spoiled brats who are given games on the cheap.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3570 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 14:05 »

Handball is one of those sports that the US does not excel in, because the skill set that is most useful in its play is almost identical to that of an actual American-made sport where people get paid a crapload of dollaz to earn the right to be whipped by San Antonio in the NBA finals.

osaka · « **Reply #3571 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 15:14 »

Handball players are bulkier and slower (and usually slightly shorter) than Basketball players. And in fact, I'd say that the handball skillset is more suited for playing american football.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #3572 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 20:03 »

I feel the need to express that fantasy drafts are ruining all-star games.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3573 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 20:25 »

So what you're saying Osaka, is Europeans are wasting perfectly good rugby players.

osaka · « **Reply #3574 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 05:42 »

No, we're wasting perfectly good Handball players. Gosh GM, it's like you don't even read what I'm writing

Actually, handball success relies on ball speed and explosiveness. I'd say they'd be, at most, slightly above average rugby players. With the exception of centers, they'd probably be good.

Then there was this Argentinian acquaintance I had who was pretty much average at both sports

Side note: You really really really really don't want to play Rugby in Sweden, at least during winter.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3575 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 06:21 »

I have a cousin-in-law who is one of the coaches of the US National Futsal team. Imagine handball, except it's actually soccer (what non-Americans call "football").

For Americans, imagine playing soccer indoors on what's essentially a basketball court.

explicit · « **Reply #3576 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 13:12 »

I played winter soccer like that before, back before I realized I hated, and was not very good at, playing that sport. Had a lot of scrapes that year, but I always that little asshole who you slide all the time.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3577 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 14:00 »

On to more important things.

108.5 mph.

osaka · « **Reply #3578 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 14:06 »

Wild guess: Speed skating? Or Alpine Skiing?

cesium133 · « **Reply #3579 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 14:13 »

Fastball? Wait, is it even baseball season?

explicit · « **Reply #3580 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 14:48 »

.... competitive eating?

cesium133 · « **Reply #3581 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 14:51 »

108.5 muffins per hour? That's a lot of muffins.

osaka · « **Reply #3582 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 14:56 »

I'm pretty sure that Faye would blast past that.
Hell, given some competitive training I would blast past that.

explicit · « **Reply #3583 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 15:09 »

I can only eat hotdogs really fast... how stereotypical of me

jwhouk · « **Reply #3584 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 17:43 »

This man...

Shot a hockey puck at the goal at an incredible rate of speed.

osaka · « **Reply #3585 on:** 26 Jan 2015, 03:02 »

I have to get into ice hockey, I'm 100% sure I'd like that sport.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3586 on:** 26 Jan 2015, 03:50 »

One game, live, and you'd be hooked. Promise.

explicit · « **Reply #3587 on:** 26 Jan 2015, 11:23 »

They always muck it up on TV though. Best sport to watch live, but, for me, it suffers from the problem of the camera zooming in too far. So like most sports on TV I guess... Our TVs are huge now, why do we still need to zoom so far in?

cesium133 · « **Reply #3588 on:** 26 Jan 2015, 11:34 »

I watched hockey a lot when I was in college, though I don't as much these days. Partly because I don't have the time, and partly because they don't show Penguins games here.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3589 on:** 26 Jan 2015, 11:37 »

HD TV was built for hockey, with the wider screens and better detail.

But oh, to actually be at a game, in the arena, seeing the ice, the speed of the players, the puck, the hits...

...Pardon me, I'm having a moment.

explicit · « **Reply #3590 on:** 26 Jan 2015, 11:45 »

Cesium's a Penguin's fan, guess I have to hate you now. That's unfortunate.

And I just like seeing everything. For instance, I'm used to working with football film and you can't diagnose anything with how close they zoom in.

Jimor · « **Reply #3591 on:** 26 Jan 2015, 20:08 »

Until I saw a live game of hockey, I had NO IDEA how often they changed lines, since the TV cameras slavishly follow the puck when it's dumped to allow for the switch.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3592 on:** 27 Jan 2015, 01:08 »

Quote from: Jimor on 26 Jan 2015, 20:08

Until I saw a live game of hockey, I had NO IDEA how often they changed lines, since the TV cameras slavishly follow the puck when it's dumped to allow for the switch.

Would you believe that at one time you couldn't change lines on the fly? Granted, it was about 90-100 years ago.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3593 on:** 27 Jan 2015, 01:09 »

Quote from: Jimor on 26 Jan 2015, 20:08

Until I saw a live game of hockey, I had NO IDEA how often they changed lines, since the TV cameras slavishly follow the puck when it's dumped to allow for the switch.

Would you believe that at one time you couldn't change lines on the fly? Granted, it was about 90-100 years ago.

Patrick · « **Reply #3594 on:** 27 Jan 2015, 03:00 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 26 Jan 2015, 03:50

One game, live, and you'd be hooked. Promise.

This is a fact. It didn't even take a live game to get me into it, but when I finally went, it was like I'd started using heroin or something. It's that gripping.

ev4n · « **Reply #3595 on:** 27 Jan 2015, 06:42 »

Ice hockey is good. It would be great without the fighting.

After growing up on Canadian Football, I am blown away by just how much time American Football takes between plays. It's ridiculous, and offputting

jwhouk · « **Reply #3596 on:** 27 Jan 2015, 07:36 »

And yet Americans would say that Canadian Football is frustrating, because it's more about field position than it is about scoring.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3597 on:** 27 Jan 2015, 08:14 »

US football is the only sport I follow and am passionate about. Go Patriots!

And as soon as I say this to anyone, people always go out of their way to tell me that I am wrong. That soccer is much more interesting. Or that it's not physically demanding so it doesn't count. So annoying ...

explicit · « **Reply #3598 on:** 27 Jan 2015, 08:34 »

My biggest gripe is all the faking injuries and flopping in soccer. Granted, other sports do it to, but it doesn't affect the game nearly as much as it does soccer.

Also, American football helped me with a lot of self esteem issues, but that's something else entirely. And yeah, go pats.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3599 on:** 27 Jan 2015, 09:21 »

If you were looking at my desk, you would probably be able to figure out who my favorite team and sport is. Though some of the Green Bay Packer paraphernalia might confuse you.

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