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flakeloaf posted:not only do they not foster tournaments, they swarm the people who do with legal threats The Nintendo solution of only allowing pre-selected phrases is great with how "I'm using tilt controls!" becomes the meanest thing you can say when you want to insult your opponent.
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linoleum floors posted:Oh in that case, we can all defer to Expert Sports Fan. I'm not saying I'm an expert, but if you watch the footage it's quite obvious it's an accident.
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I've never really treated esports as real sports. But if it has a huge drug problem that corporate sponsors try to cover up, and it's a male-dominated industry with multiple known rapists, then maybe it's time to give it the same respect as football.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:https://twitter.com/habman1969/status/1400592031110545408 Sports fans, in general, are very stupid when it comes to their teams. This isn't unique to the Jets and their fans. And yeah hockey violence is loving stupid - one of the reasons I stopped watching was the bullshit that would happen near the end of blowout playoff games where the losing team would start acting like shitheads to "send a message" or whatever to the other team.
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but telling his family their son's a cruel fuckup, now that is just beyond the pale 
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I think good ol school hockey fighting probably prevented some of these insane life altering injuries by letting roided out 20somethings just punch each other futilely on the ice while unintentionally dancing around in circles for 15 seconds which gets all the testosterone poisoning abated for a bit less angry hockey man smash grr I bet after you’ve punched a dude a couple times
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ColdBlooded posted:Sports fans, in general, are very stupid when it comes to their teams. This isn't unique to the Jets and their fans. no leafs fan ever called me newfie
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jake Evans makes $750k, he's not even a millionaire athlete. also athletes are workers. except Tom Brady
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ah yes, the struggle continues at the job with a 750k minimum wage. truly a man of the people
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oh no he only makes enough to outright buy a house in the Vancouver area with a year’s salary and change
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750,000 american dollars. that's at least 8 figures here.
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can't believe how many people in here hate union members 
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Salean posted:no leafs fan ever called me newfie leafs fans are incapable of hating anyone more than the leafs
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Reality Protester posted:750,000 american dollars. that's at least 8 figures here. still might not be able to buy a house with that  a two bedroom condo is $475k (not including the $300/month in strata fees, lmao) where I rent a 1 bedroom apartment for $1500/month. this country's housing market is hosed
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luckily he can live in a hospital room until his head stops spinning from poor life choices
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Kazinsal posted:still might not be able to buy a house with that not to mention this country exists on the same planet as income taxes
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Kazinsal posted:I think good ol school hockey fighting probably prevented some of these insane life altering injuries by letting roided out 20somethings just punch each other futilely on the ice while unintentionally dancing around in circles for 15 seconds which gets all the testosterone poisoning abated for a bit except the part where the punchmen who got punched in the head repeatedly also ended up with life-altering conditions and/or died see: derek boogaard, rick rypien
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i'm somewhat sympathetic to pro athletes because they're among the few millionaires who have arguably earned it training your whole life to be among the best in the world at a thing? sure, go get that bread (ignore the part where the cost of entry is mid/upper six figgies and only children of rich families have a shot of making it big) also they're still exploited by billionaire owners
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Just because you nerds got bullied by the kids from the local peewee team in grade school doesn't mean that hockey is intrinsically bad or a NHL player deserves to get a brain injury.
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fisting by many posted:i'm somewhat sympathetic to pro athletes because they're among the few millionaires who have arguably earned it also ignore the part where you have to have be born with very specific genetics to succeed at being a professional athlete. But yeah, they "earned" it.
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known good gene-haver and genetic superman john kruk
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yeah yeah we're talking about hockey, you need height and size, great cardio, and resistance to injury and immediate damage from steroids and coke those are things you're just born with, THEN you have to win at the privileged upbringing game
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We can ignore baseball because it is the good sport. Unlike hockey, which is full of 6'3 240 lbs wife beating trump supporters.
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prom candy posted:jake Evans makes $750k, he's not even a millionaire athlete. But yeah, it's not so much the NHL players I particularly feel for but the legions of kids who topped out in junior and below who are still at risk of TBI.
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Albino Squirrel posted:He's also got a career with a very limited lifespan (in addition to limiting the lifespan of his cerebrum). Getting paid 750K sounds great until you have to live for the rest of your life on five years of that, and pay for your nursing, and also nobody ever taught you how to invest because it would distract from hockey. nhl players have pensions must be the union
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Albino Squirrel posted:and also nobody ever taught you how to invest the horror
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I'd feel more solidarity with the players on labour issues if they weren't mostly either chuds or unengaged meatheads that vote right wing because "muh taxes". The head injury stuff is obviously very bad though. The owners being pieces of poo poo goes without saying of course.
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Arivia posted:I'm not saying I'm an expert, but if you watch the footage it's quite obvious it's an accident. If Tavares wasn't hit in the first place he wouldn't have been on the ground to get fuckin kneed in the head at 40 kmph
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also worth noting that jake Evans also plays for the Montreal canadiens which is part of the marginalized francophone community. a lot of people in this thread need to do better.
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prom candy posted:... plays for the Montreal canadiens... Unforgivable
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Yinlock posted:leafs fans are incapable of hating anyone more than the leafs wrong, ourselves.
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ColdBlooded posted:I'd feel more solidarity with the players on labour issues if they weren't mostly either chuds or unengaged meatheads that vote right wing because "muh taxes". The head injury stuff is obviously very bad though. For real, show me a pro athlete who shows solidarity with the working class and I'll show you one that I would feel bad about him getting a concussion. e: also I've been working too much to read this thread but literally all white French people are racist as poo poo and it's hilarious every time they pretend like anyone should give a poo poo about people being mean to them, especially when they immediately turn around and defend blatant obvious racist garbage immediately afterward. Mafic Rhyolite has issued a correction as of 05:50 on Jun 6, 2021 |
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idk how useful a union is when preventable career-ending injuries are a regular occurrence on the job and they do poo poo about it
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Mafic Rhyolite posted:For real, show me a pro athlete who shows solidarity with the working class and I'll show you one that I would feel bad about him getting a concussion. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/sports/basketball/nba-arena-workers-coronavirus.html
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Killin_Like_Bronson posted:wrong, ourselves. point
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"thousands of Canadians dying each year due to companies forcing workers into dangerous situations and ignoring regulation" - I sleep "rich sports man gets owie" - real poo poo
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We should just have fuckin Rollerball already since hockey as it exists is a half-assed substitute for actual bloodsport
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shitposting aside women's hockey doesn't have as much of the bullshit and the games are still really fun to watch, often more than mens because it's not all clutch and grab. hockey is a great sport and if the nhl cleaned it up some it would be even better
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prom candy posted:shitposting aside women's hockey doesn't have as much of the bullshit and the games are still really fun to watch, often more than mens because it's not all clutch and grab. hockey is a great sport and if the nhl cleaned it up some it would be even better This is true, especially during the Olympics. My father wouldn't let me play hockey, not that I was interested in the sport at all, I'm not really a team player when it comes to sports, mainly because I suck at them. (But for some strange reason he would let me play rugby? ) His father was a small town doctor during the 30's to 50's and instilled "Don't play hockey, you'll get hurt" in him from an early age. None of my cousins played either. Having said all that, during one of the winter Olympics about 15-20 years ago, he started watching the women's hockey, and really could appreciate the game from that standpoint where the violence of the men's game didn't exist, and continued to watch that tournament until he passed. On a related note, sort of, because of my upbringing, and I'm not going to mention the team because that's a Dox maneuver, I started following my local CPL soccer team, and then Covid happened. Yay?
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Mafic Rhyolite posted:For real, show me a pro athlete who shows solidarity with the working class and I'll show you one that I would feel bad about him getting a concussion. Manute Bol.
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