The sport of Rugby is really fun to watch live. There were some epic matches between the Old Blues at Cal, and Stanford.
The good part is that so much of football gear gets used as a weapon. In Rugby, you spear another guy with your head and you both suffer the consequences.
My favorite sport is baseball. I never played it organized, I’m not a talented athlete, but I go to games all the time. It’s actually nice to be a fan of teams that don’t make the playoffs because the regular season tickets get cheap.
I think it’s hilarious and welcome the banter. And after seeing Grahams finger… he’s no ‘pussy’. Though maybe missed the saftey class in 7th grade shop…lol sorry Graham! Ha
Thats cool Steve. I’ve never seen it, but I have a friend that makes the trip to Reno every year. I’ve seen lots of airshows but would like to see the races. I think they used to do them down here in San Diego - Red Bull over the bay.
Better go get hold of some Vietnam era soldiers and ask them about the inter battalion sports, the Aussises would play that ‘little girly tag team’ NFL game and even beat them at it every now and then. But, when these same NFL players were asked to have a game of Rugby League, then they flat out refused to play stating things like, ---- nope, that suicidal.
So much truth there. I played street football, a bunch of pick up games as a kid, but after playing full contact football in highschool I wouldn’t do street ball… coaches said not to do it to. Different game after you have had the gear on. Way to violent to play shirts and skins after full contact with gear.
I don’t like watching spectator sports. I’m a nerd.
I like Formula-1, but from a technical point of view and only the 1970-1980 era. Today, the guys manning those Mission Control consoles have as much say as the driver, sometimes more. Too much committee, too much computers, too much aero vanes on the cars. They look like next gen razors.
That being said, I liked scuba diving a LOT. Probably influenced by all those Jacques Costeau TV shows when I was small. Doing stuff has always been more enjoyable than watching for me.
I hear you G. I was always outside playing the game. And in highschool, i played football. Also competed in shot put way back. And to date I race a 760 rwhp dodge charger on the 1320 and run my boss 302 laguna seca on the twisties. Doing stuff is fun!
That said, I watch the pros because I’m terrible at all the above…lol
The one time I watched a drag race on TV, an engine literally blew itself out of the car! The commentator explained that dragsters have high capacity fuel pumps, so when the gas is mashed down and then suddenly lifted, the fuel pouring into the cylinders cause hydraulic lock, which can tear apart the engine.
While I don’t care much for drag racing, I have the utmost respect for the drivers, who only get a few seconds to do their stuff. And I remember those Revell 1/16 dragster kits were SO cool!
Keavdog, that looked like the pumpout cycle on a washing machine! Thanks for the link - now I have actually seen what I only could imagine back in the day.
I did the little league baseball and Pop Warner football as a kid, then went to motocross and desert racing motorcycles along with football and rock climbing through high school. The military curtailed my sports a bit but then went on to high power shooting and that brought on 1000 yard shooting. So I’ve found that most of the stuff I like is not particularly ‘spectator’ type sports. I tried golf for a short period but noted that if you didn’t practice A LOT, you didn’t improve, and I just didn’t have the time for that. I did do a little bull riding back when I was bulletproof . . . yeah, that was fairly short-lived.
So, now its the occasional shooting, just to keep in practice, just in case . . . and though I’m in my sixties, I still wear body armor. A warrior at heart and practice.
NHL hockey and women’s soccer. A guy can take a slapshot to the face and come back a short time later wearing a full face shield and keep playing. I enjoy women’s soccer because they play hard and don’t fake ‘injuries’ like some of the clowns in men’s soccer. You know…guys who fall to the ground and flail around as if they’ve been hit point blank with a bazooka round after there has been ‘contact’ and in some cases no contact at all.
Just found this photo. Exactly what I’m talking about.
