Blue Screen Error posted:

I don't have that power otherwise I'd be renaming everyone everything

Blue Screen Error posted:

I don't have that power otherwise I'd be renaming everyone everything

vyelkin posted:

Wow, what a lovely job. You get doxxed by the offsite and can't even rename people.

Blue Star Error posted:

I don't have that power otherwise I'd be renaming everyone everything

mynameisjohn posted:

ugh all the comparisons to american football are triggering me

stickyfngrdboy posted:

do you at least have the power to fix your av text

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I used to be overcome with indifference towards professional sports, but more and more have become actively against MOST competitive professional team sports...for it's hypermasculinity, rape culture, homophobia, drug culture (steroids), high incidence of Alzheimer's/dementia/physical injuries etc....there are so many things about it that are more negative than positive now.

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Before you just blow out your you know what, maybe you better take a closer look at your beloved sport. And, looks like many of the sports on this list are practiced all around the world, not just the US. Nor do you address the health or drug issues, which also are not limited to the US.
http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/the91stminute/2012/12/top-10-most-violent-sports-is-soccer-leading-the-way/

Coohoolin posted:

From facebook:

Before you just blow out your you know what, maybe you better take a closer look at your beloved sport. And, looks like many of the sports on this list are practiced all around the world, not just the US. Nor do you address the health or drug issues, which also are not limited to the US.
http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/the9...eading-the-way/

mynameisjohn posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyWVia7hzGs

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Keep your kickball talk to yourself

I don't like kickball. I don’t like people telling me I should like kickball. Go waste your breath about a waste of time somewhere else.

I don’t like people tsk-tsking me because I hate watching the mind-numbing kickball that begins Thursday. I’m under no obligation to submit to torture, and if I were, I’d choose waterboarding.

Speaking of that, it’s embarrassing that the United States does waterboarding better than kickball, but my dislike of kickball has nothing to do with the U.S. national kickball team's never winning anything. I mean, I still watch the Cubs.

I don’t care if the rest of the world likes kickball. The rest of the world can be pretty messed up at times, and obsessing over an exercise as boring as kickball is a prime example.

I don’t like people telling me that kickball is the sport of the future. I’ve been hearing that kickball will be the sport of the future in America for, I don’t know, 40 years. Waiting.

Wait. Ing.

While a majority of America has laughed with me at kickball proselytizers, the NFL has become everything that kickball Kool-Aid drinkers talked about. Football, not futbol. Never futbol. Never ever.

Some of the divas running around on the kickball field whine and flop worse than Dwyane Wade, and I can’t stand watching Wade, so why would I want to watch a more juvenile version of that?

Sometimes in the course of a game, a player commits a foul near his own goal. It must be a terrible foul because he and his teammates then have to line up in front of a kicker on the other team and publicly cover their man parts like they’re pledging a fraternity. Thank you, sir. May I have another?

And talk about stupid rules. Kickball has a special brand of omigod.

First, it’s a secret when the game ends. They have a thing called “extra time.’’ But nobody watching or playing seems to know how much “extra time’’ is remaining in extra time.

Then the game magically ends. Just like that. Over. Surprise! Geez, even Pictionary is played with a timer that everybody can see.

And when nobody can score after 90 or 100 minutes -- kill me now -- kickball decides a winner from, what, 10 yards away kicking into a 30-foot net? Something like that. Something ridiculous like that.

And we haven’t even talked about some of the fans-slash-hooligans-slash-terrorists who can make Vancouverites look like as inert and lobotomized as Cubs owners.

Kickball causes concussions and, worse, subconcussive hits. It's an epidemic. You can tell it’s an epidemic by the number of people telling you how great world kickball is.

You can enjoy your kickball. Just don’t tell me I must become a kickball lemming, too.

Big Black Dick posted:

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80481702/

jyrka posted:

What's kickball?

blue footed boobie posted:

Shrapnig posted:

Nice hosed up foot.

irlZaphod posted:

I thought Zero Star was a United fan?

vaginal culture posted:

https://twitter.com/giggs_boson/status/477167741338927104

blue footed boobie posted:

I Feast On Dogshit posted:

man I'm so buzzed for te upsurge in posts that will be in this thread for the next 4 weeks

belgend posted:

Posts from this forum aren't allowed.

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Mandelbaum also offers a proposal to make the game more popular in the United States. He’d alter the rules to favor the offense, eliminating the offside rule, which forbids players from passing to teammates standing behind enemy lines. Alternatively, he’d use the number of corner kicks awarded to each team as a way to break ties, a method that would reward aggressive play. “For this to happen in the US, however, the rest of the world would have to do the same, which it won’t,” he says.

The close-mindedness of the sport’s establishment shouldn’t stand in the way of a good idea. And so, in that spirit, here’s a modest proposal: soccer should take its cue from boxing and install three field-side judges to secretly score every 15-minute interval. Goals would be like knock-outs. Points would only come into play in the case of a tie.

Skinty McEdger posted:

That has to be a loving parody right?

Yes lets change the entire rules of the game because Americans don't like them.

Skinty McEdger posted:

Yes lets change the entire rules of the game because Americans don't like them.

frankenfreak posted:

Haven't you picked up that that's a running theme in theis kind of post.

peanut- posted:

Why do the people that write these articles always think eliminating the offside rule would increase the amount of attacking play?

peanut- posted:

Why do the people that write these articles always think eliminating the offside rule would increase the amount of attacking play?

peanut- posted:

Why do the people that write these articles always think eliminating the offside rule would increase the amount of attacking play?

vyelkin posted:

Because basketball doesn't have any offside rule and they score like 100 points every game.