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Title: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: TightEnd on June 15, 2015, 05:20:54 PM you can choose one sport that tonight would be banned globally for evermore
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT929QkJ3BcN3jWAisjskysvrKWmGmgqXcXg1pk-Y4kMM3oVxbLJQ) choose a sport and give reasons. these may be any reasons you see fit...... over to you Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: tikay on June 15, 2015, 05:49:52 PM At the risk of upsetting a few good friends of mine (it's not personal lads)....... MMA I'd also like to see the end of any "sports" which involve killing or deliberately hurting animals. (Bull fighting etc). Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: GreekStein on June 15, 2015, 05:53:46 PM Formula 1
Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: celtic on June 15, 2015, 06:03:27 PM Cricket or American football.
Can't decide. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Longines on June 15, 2015, 06:05:01 PM Horse racing.
Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: arbboy on June 15, 2015, 06:10:13 PM Clay court tennis especially the French open. The crowd are generally disgraceful towards the players year after year. Watching baseliners slugging it out has no appeal to me in the slightest. I would scrap it's grand slam status if i run tennis for a year.
Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: TheDazzler on June 15, 2015, 06:17:21 PM Nobody is giving reasons!
I've got to go with Tikay on this one. Bull fighting. I was in a restaurant in Granada once and they had a huge screen up in the restaurant showing bullfighting. Not only that but it was female matadors (or whatever the female version of a matador is). And this one girl made a complete mess of it. And had to go back again and again before eventually the bull died. Lovely meal I had watching that! Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Marky147 on June 15, 2015, 06:42:45 PM Couldn't think of any sport that particularly irks me, so will go for gymnastics, because it's boring.
Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Karabiner on June 15, 2015, 07:27:45 PM Couldn't think of any sport that particularly irks me, so will go for gymnastics, because it's boring. Assume you are referring to men's gymnastics. ;fishing; Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Marky147 on June 15, 2015, 07:34:30 PM Couldn't think of any sport that particularly irks me, so will go for gymnastics, because it's boring. Assume you are referring to men's gymnastics. ;fishing; Ha, all of it! If I want to watch birds prancing about with hardly anything on, I'll hit the strippy ;) Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: RickBFA on June 15, 2015, 08:03:48 PM Right now it's women's football.
What winds me up is the BBC pushing a minority sport as if its main stream. Political correctness gone mad, BBC have been promoting "news" of women's football on TV and Radio 5 regularly when 99.99% of the public don't follow it. Classic situation of trying to push an agenda rather than report on what people are actually interested in. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: mulhuzz on June 15, 2015, 08:25:48 PM Polo.
Because have a fucking word with yourselves man. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: RED-DOG on June 15, 2015, 08:46:32 PM Football where players earn more than three times the national average wage.
Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: david3103 on June 15, 2015, 09:10:16 PM Football where players earn more than three times the national average wage. Bloody hell, James Milner is reported to be on £150,000 a week, if that's only three times the national average I may think about going back to work. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: RED-DOG on June 15, 2015, 09:48:44 PM Football where players earn more than three times the national average wage. Bloody hell, James Milner is reported to be on £150,000 a week, if that's only three times the national average I may think about going back to work. No. Games he played in would would be banned obv. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Woodsey on June 15, 2015, 10:02:25 PM Football- Chav sport innit ;whistle;
Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Tal on June 15, 2015, 10:03:41 PM With the panel on bullfighting, but I'd have to throw in walking.
If sport is about doing things as fast, as far, as strong or as high as possible, walking quickly rather than breaking into a run makes no sense whatsoever. The people involved contort themselves into completely unnatural shapes while referees tell them one foot wasn't on the ground. No thanks. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Karabiner on June 15, 2015, 10:04:20 PM Football where players earn more than three times the national average wage. So it's just the wages rather than the sport that you'd like to ban? I'd ban darts and netball, both equally futile imo. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: buzzharvey22 on June 15, 2015, 10:10:38 PM Baseball.
Only sport that I used to love playing but can't stand watching. Used to be so fast paced and great fun playing at school. Boring as shit to watch. A game lasts, what, 3 hours? And you get about 2 decent things per game to watch. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: david3103 on June 15, 2015, 11:27:20 PM Boxing and it's extreme cousins.
What is sporting about attempting to give your opponent brain damage? Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Nakor on June 16, 2015, 12:06:33 PM Cycling.
Nothing against the sport as such, and I do enjoy watching some forms but the take up on the roads is becoming unbearable. I live in a rural location, and every day I am faced with cyclists 3 abreast on a country road in their SKY tops, dicking about pretending to be Chris Froome. I drove from Sheffield to Bakewell the other day and it was like driving through a stage of the Tour De France. The inability of recreational cyclists to obey the rules of the road and our generally shit roads make it a recipe for disaster. It was never this bad prior to Wiggins and Froome's fame, ban the sport and everyone might put their bikes back in the shed. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: JohnCharver on June 16, 2015, 12:20:52 PM With the panel on bullfighting, but I'd have to throw in walking. If sport is about doing things as fast, as far, as strong or as high as possible, walking quickly rather than breaking into a run makes no sense whatsoever. The people involved contort themselves into completely unnatural shapes while referees tell them one foot wasn't on the ground. No thanks. Agree and throw in all swimming events other than freestyle. Its a race to get across the pool unaided as fast as possible, front crawl is the fastest, do that, the others are stupid and just leads to a ridic amount of medals when they start bringing in medaly in every varieties. All womens sports. You are either the best on the planet or not. Womens events are sexist and demeaning lol. Its amazing the number of feminists campaigning for equal pay etc but then basically accepting womens sports which accepts them as second class citizens. Ill allow womens beach volleyball. Men shouldnt play that, certainly not in jeans. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: DungBeetle on June 16, 2015, 12:25:13 PM "Ill allow womens beach volleyball. Men shouldnt play that, certainly not in jeans."
Disagree - Iceman/Slider v Goose/Maverick is one of my top 10 sporting memories. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: RED-DOG on June 16, 2015, 12:35:56 PM Cycling. Nothing against the sport as such, and I do enjoy watching some forms but the take up on the roads is becoming unbearable. I live in a rural location, and every day I am faced with cyclists 3 abreast on a country road in their SKY tops, dicking about pretending to be Chris Froome. I drove from Sheffield to Bakewell the other day and it was like driving through a stage of the Tour De France. The inability of recreational cyclists to obey the rules of the road and our generally shit roads make it a recipe for disaster. It was never this bad prior to Wiggins and Froome's fame, ban the sport and everyone might put their bikes back in the shed. Have to disagree Nak. Riding single file on some roads can be very dangerous because inpatient motorists try to squeeze past, putting you in mortal danger if you happen to wobble or swerve to avoid a pot hole. Lone cyclists on narrow roads should ride in the center of the lane and motorists should wait for a safe place to overtake. Plus- How many poker players dick about playing poker all night pretending to be Daniel Negreanu and then put people's lives at risk by driving home while tired? Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: scotty2hatty on June 16, 2015, 12:44:06 PM At the risk of upsetting a few good friends of mine (it's not personal lads)....... MMA I'd also like to see the end of any "sports" which involve killing or deliberately hurting animals. (Bull fighting etc). Haha, think we've had this debate a couple of times throughout the years and you've never provided good reasoning! Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Nakor on June 16, 2015, 04:09:50 PM Cycling. Nothing against the sport as such, and I do enjoy watching some forms but the take up on the roads is becoming unbearable. I live in a rural location, and every day I am faced with cyclists 3 abreast on a country road in their SKY tops, dicking about pretending to be Chris Froome. I drove from Sheffield to Bakewell the other day and it was like driving through a stage of the Tour De France. The inability of recreational cyclists to obey the rules of the road and our generally shit roads make it a recipe for disaster. It was never this bad prior to Wiggins and Froome's fame, ban the sport and everyone might put their bikes back in the shed. Have to disagree Nak. Riding single file on some roads can be very dangerous because inpatient motorists try to squeeze past, putting you in mortal danger if you happen to wobble or swerve to avoid a pot hole. Lone cyclists on narrow roads should ride in the center of the lane and motorists should wait for a safe place to overtake. Plus- How many poker players dick about playing poker all night pretending to be Daniel Negreanu and then put people's lives at risk by driving home while tired? I agree - but alas it is very rarely Doris pootling along on her Penny Farthing that causes problems. Its the small pellatons of wannabe Mr Wiggins that cause the issues. Sadly society's rules usually regress to outlaw the most stupid behaviour, so in light of the Drivers that don't know how to drive and the cyclists that spoil it for every one else best all round to ban the lot. Oh and Poker is not a sport so couldn't ban that for road safety in this thread ;) Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: AdamM on June 17, 2015, 08:45:47 AM On top of all blood sports, especially bullfighting (is that really a sport, or just public animal torture?) it'd be horse and dog racing.
Seem like the only sports that are primarily about the betting action, rather than the game itself. Do people watch horse racing without a betting interest? Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Waz1892 on June 17, 2015, 09:04:01 AM Horse Racing. Miserable. Bent. Clicky clicky. Awful "sport".
Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Junior Senior on June 17, 2015, 02:47:29 PM Rugby.
Only big guys can play at the highest level. If you are 5ft 7 and weigh under 11 stone you simply cannot play, therefore it isn't inclusive. There is very little skill involved. The ball isn't round. It's so boring Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: AdamM on June 17, 2015, 03:03:29 PM Rugby. Only big guys can play at the highest level. If you are 5ft 7 and weigh under 11 stone you simply cannot play, therefore it isn't inclusive. There is very little skill involved. The ball isn't round. It's so boring Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: mulhuzz on June 18, 2015, 08:50:56 PM Rugby. Only big guys can play at the highest level. If you are 5ft 7 and weigh under 11 stone you simply cannot play, therefore it isn't inclusive. There is very little skill involved. The ball isn't round. It's so boring that's ambitious mind.... Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Chompy on June 18, 2015, 09:19:35 PM Crowing.
Anyone who participates has zero class. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Nico29 on June 19, 2015, 01:06:40 PM Crowing. Anyone who participates has zero class. Deffo. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Marky147 on June 19, 2015, 01:30:19 PM Rugby. Only big guys can play at the highest level. If you are 5ft 7 and weigh under 11 stone you simply cannot play, therefore it isn't inclusive. There is very little skill involved. The ball isn't round. It's so boring that's ambitious mind.... I guessed he was trying to hook Woodsey, so left it alone :D Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: BigAdz on June 19, 2015, 02:21:13 PM HaHa!
Sniping. Normally carried out by jealous people. All rather sad, especially when carried out on a keyboard from miles away. Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: BigAdz on June 19, 2015, 02:22:41 PM Hero Worshipping.
Carried out by people with no thought process of their own, normally just agreeing with their hero all the time. rotflmfao Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Tal on June 19, 2015, 02:31:45 PM Hero Worshipping. Carried out by people with no thought process of their own, normally just agreeing with their hero all the time. rotflmfao tl;dr +1 to whatever adz says Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: Marky147 on June 19, 2015, 02:33:06 PM Hero Worshipping. Carried out by people with no thought process of their own, normally just agreeing with their hero all the time. rotflmfao tl;dr +1 to whatever adz says VWP ;hattip; Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: BigAdz on June 19, 2015, 02:34:38 PM Hero Worshipping. Carried out by people with no thought process of their own, normally just agreeing with their hero all the time. rotflmfao tl;dr +1 to whatever adz says LOL. All depends on the Hero, of course..... ;) Title: Re: If you could ban one sport, what would it be? Post by: RED-DOG on June 19, 2015, 02:38:08 PM Hero Worshipping. Carried out by people with no thought process of their own, normally just agreeing with their hero all the time. rotflmfao tl;dr +1 to whatever adz says You're doing some clarting about today babby. Made me lol though. |