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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
They actually tried something like that it was called the Beer Games I think.
It was really stupid though, as it was just the games, they had limits about how much people could drink, like 2 an hour max or some such ridiculously small amount.
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Still, I think you could have some entertainment out of that.
Call it the Buzzed Games. Contestants must maintain a certain BAL range while participating.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
I think it was due to liability issues, but yeah if people are sober than its not really a drinking game. Its like d bags that take Beer Pong seriously. I've honestly seen more than one fight over it.
Thats why I play Thunderball. The winner drinks more!
Albatross wrote: I'd happily see wrestling replaced in the Olympics by MMA or BJJ, like.
That would be fine by me, as they are essentially evolved versions of the sport.
There are a lot of Olympic events that are pretty rare that are still in the games, like Water Polo or Valleyball. Most Americans that wrestle do Freestyle wrestling. Greco-Roman is pretty rare in comparison even here.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Valleyball? Do you mean volleyball? Thats a pretty big deal on the women's side here in high school and college.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Volleyball is one sport which I can say I have talant for, that and Fencing.
Wrestling is something I enjoy watching for sure, and I have friends who are wrestlers. Shame they are dropping it. I demand and explaination.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Wrestling was and still is an odd event. That daft one on top starting position made for a weird scenario that is hard to rationalise to the uninitiated.
It makes way so more manly pastimes like Rugby 7s can get in, which can only ramp up beers sales at any Olympic event, the sooner 15s is in the better!
Wrestlings loss is the brewers gain.
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Women's Volleyball is semi-popular, but not on the level of say, Football or Basketball. The number of people that take it seriously enough to pursue it on an Olympic level is probably about on par with those that pursue Wrestling as an Olympic sport. It often isn't popular for the sport either.
On the radio earlier they were saying that it was being replaced by Golf.
Apparently most thought the Pentathlon would be voted out since it has a low country turnout: 26 countries had athletes in it compared to wrestling's 76 countries.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
I'd disagree (not about the pic). Every high school and college I know of in Texas has a women's volleyball team.
I've never ever seen anyone play shuttlecock who was over nine years old until I saw a news report of the Koreans trying to throw a game to get themselves in a better position later. Er...ok...
Why drop it? Why not just add a sport?
On the other hand I don't care. I watch almost nothing of the Olympics because they only have some crap diving or swimming event on all the time anyway. I tried to DVR boxing, fencing, TQD, and Judo this last time and the events weren't on when the schedule said it was on.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Frazzled wrote: I'd disagree (not about the pic). Every high school and college I know of in Texas has a women's volleyball team.
Those aren't Olympic teams. Every High School and University also have wrestling programs as well, and both get about the same coverage on ESPN 8, The Ocho. Shuttlecock is an example of a completely off the radar sport in the US, but we have a lot of people so we just need a few to be really into it to send a team.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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Frazzled wrote: I'd disagree (not about the pic). Every high school and college I know of in Texas has a women's volleyball team.
Those aren't Olympic teams. Every High School and University also have wrestling programs as well, and both get about the same coverage on ESPN 8, The Ocho. Shuttlecock is an example of a completely off the radar sport in the US, but we have a lot of people so we just need a few to be really into it to send a team.
Not getting the reference Ahtman. College track and field is not an olympic team either. The only time an olympic team is an olympic team is when its, well the olympic team. Again, why not just add the additional "sports" ( U GOLF IS NOT A SPORT!)
Agreed. Thats like the bastard child of Castro and baby beauty pageants.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Because you keep saying 'all the high schools and colleges have a team', and as you pointed out, many of the less popular (from an international perspective, this isn't the Texas State Finals, but the Olympics) sports are played in college. Each of those schools also have a Wrestling team as well. Having a team at a University doesn't make it as popular a sport as Basketball, Football, Soccer (or for the less sophisticated Europeans, Football), or (and god knows why) Baseball/Softball. Rugby has more of a following globally than Volleyball.
Unless you are asking about ESPN 8, The Ocho. If it is almost a sport, it is on the ocho!
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Not something most of the world will be bothered by, but I can see why America and some of the former Soviet satelite countries who did well in it not being too pleased
and while I dont like it golf (dull to play, duller to watch for me)is as much a sport as others that demand precision rather than athleticism (like shooting, archery etc)
I'd think one Baseball/softball are also a bit to niche in terms of nations seriously competing to get back in (it's a bit like cricket, wildly popular in not may places)
rubiksnoob wrote: They're considering roller sports? What the hell does that even refer to? Olympic street hockey?
Make it so.
YES!!! Gladitorial games for the 21st Century!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I say do away with the Olympics entirly, they screw over the inhabitants of any city that hosts it, turning them into a police state where, unless you bought out the govt, you cant even say Olympics.
In all seriousness, We need knife fighting as a sport, Aswell as real gunfiring, lets see how well those guys fire at clay pigeons when someone is firing at them.
hotsauceman1 wrote: I say do away with the Olympics entirly, they screw over the inhabitants of any city that hosts it, turning them into a police state where, unless you bought out the govt, you cant even say Olympics.
In all seriousness, We need knife fighting as a sport, Aswell as real gunfiring, lets see how well those guys fire at clay pigeons when someone is firing at them.
I was thinking if its based on popularity, they should integrate competitive porn surfing. I can guarantee a record breaking audience.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Frazzled wrote: I know in the Yankee land wrestling is a big deal high school sport. Golf aint.
Mwahahahaha! Gold isn't a big deal? It's the biggest money sport in the world, and most of that is due to the massive money in the US.
Tiger Woods is a billionaire. The greatest wrestler in the world is some fat guy no-one here has ever heard of, who is currently hauling his ass from company to company looking for some sponsorship so he can keep up his wrestling training with only one part time job to make ends meet. Because golf is the biggest money sport in the world, and wrestling really, really isn't.
Now, none of that makes golf a good game (I think it's boring as hell), but it is a very big game, with a large following and even more money behind it... all of which makes it really obvious why golf is in and wrestling is out.
Now that might lead to the argument that the Olympics shouldn't just be about big sports, but a showcase for sports that don't have big tournaments otherwise. I'm not sure I agree with that argument entirely, as there also needs to be some kind of importance placed on sports people will actually watch. But at least that debate makes some kind of sense.
But this thing where people are saying wrestling is big sport and golf isn't? That's just silly.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
I began wrestling in high school when I moved to Iowa. The weight class I was in had five people with me wrestling 5th string my first year.
During the summers the team hired out to local farmers, working our asses off, but making a party of it.
Wrestling was huge in Iowa at that time and there would be at least 5 tournaments a year in gyms that had standing room only.
Wrestling was a culture there.
The descision is a sad one for me. I saw one comment in another forum that said the IOC made a descision that has united Russians, Iranians, Turks, and Americans.
Frazzled wrote: I know in the Yankee land wrestling is a big deal high school sport. Golf aint.
Mwahahahaha! Gold isn't a big deal? It's the biggest money sport in the world, and most of that is due to the massive money in the US.
Tiger Woods is a billionaire. The greatest wrestler in the world is some fat guy no-one here has ever heard of, who is currently hauling his ass from company to company looking for some sponsorship so he can keep up his wrestling training with only one part time job to make ends meet. Because golf is the biggest money sport in the world, and wrestling really, really isn't.
Now, none of that makes golf a good game (I think it's boring as hell), but it is a very big game, with a large following and even more money behind it... all of which makes it really obvious why golf is in and wrestling is out.
Now that might lead to the argument that the Olympics shouldn't just be about big sports, but a showcase for sports that don't have big tournaments otherwise. I'm not sure I agree with that argument entirely, as there also needs to be some kind of importance placed on sports people will actually watch. But at least that debate makes some kind of sense.
But this thing where people are saying wrestling is big sport and golf isn't? That's just silly.
Golf is not a sport. Golf is a pastime. Seriously anyone who thinks golf is a sport is lacks the capacity for coherent thought.
Grandmothers play golf.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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rubiksnoob wrote: I have to agree with Frazz, here. If you can drink beer while doing something, it's not a sport.
Hmmm, not sure about this. May require testing.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Frazzled wrote: Golf is not a sport. Golf is a pastime. Seriously anyone who thinks golf is a sport is lacks the capacity for coherent thought.
Grandmothers play golf.
I don't like golf. I think it's boring. I don't care whether its in the Olympics or not, because there's loads of boring crap in the Olympics, and whether one of those boring sports is wrestling or golf bothers me not one bit.
But you said golf wasn't a big deal. That's hilarious. Beyond lacking the capacity for coherent thought, and into 'invents an elaborate fantasy world and presents a clear danger to themselves and others' kind of lunacy.
I mean fething hell, we've got a guy claiming wrestling is a big deal, but golf ain't. This is a thing that has actually happened.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
U GOLF IS NOT A SPORT!)
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