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thom1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 12:45 PM
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Check in if you couldn't care less about the NCAA Tournament
My SO was glued to the TV yesterday waiting for the brackets to be announced. He is a HUGE UConn (men's and women's) fan. :eyes:
I am admittedly not a sports fan at all, but March makes me wish that the year was only 11 months long. It reminds me of the scene during BaseketBall, where the sports announcers are breaking down the brackets for the baseketball teams, and the season is, like, 11 months long.
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mistertrickster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 12:50 PM
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1. Amen, is there any sport more repetitive and boring--any sport
that requires less strategy? Any sport more dependent on bizarre and unnatural physiogamy (height)?

It's what the boys play while the men wrestle.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 12:52 PM
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4. They should raise the net
And make the court about 50 feet longer. Humans have outgrown the current dinemsions of the game.
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thom1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 12:53 PM
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5. My brother wrestled in high school...
I used to kid him about non-professional wrestling was the only sport I enjoyed watching (sweaty men in nothing but a singlet rolling around on a mat, and you think of anything more homoerotic?)
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 12:51 PM
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2. NCAA? What's that?
:bounce:
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thom1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 12:53 PM
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6. Halelujiah, Brother!
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 12:51 PM
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3. When Providence College is done playing
I'll be done watching.
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ZenLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 12:58 PM
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7. Maybe if basketball had a 'goalie'
A guy to sit at the top of the net and kick the balls away when the players try to make baskets. Personally, I'd love it if midgets could play this role; I feel the sport is predisposed against midgets, and it would be good if they could be a part of the game while shouting pejoratives at all the tall guys on the floor.

:think:
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thom1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:03 PM
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8. A little trash talking?
Edited on Mon Mar-15-04 01:03 PM by thom1102
emphasis on the "little"?:P
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ZenLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:09 PM
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12. "My four foot tall grandmother throws better than you!"
Soon thereafter, basketball would have a penalty box too. :o
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:04 PM
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9. Geez, another sports thing?
Pffft
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:05 PM
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10. sporting games are fun to participate in, but boring to watch

they are only fun to watch in the Olympics.

and the crappy way TV handles the Olympics makes that even boring sometimes. the talking heads talk everything to death and they only show the events THEY think are the most interesting to the viewers.
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damnraddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:06 PM
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11. Couldn't care less, but ...
I will be watching the NIT.
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:45 PM
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13. I pretty much dont care about any sport


DDQM
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kitkatrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 02:29 PM
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14. YES!!! And we have another!
I could care less, and people look at me strange because I don't like sports--any of them. I really don't understand why people get so hyped up about them.
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KinkyDem Donating Member (748 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 02:31 PM
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15. I could care less
but it would take too much effort.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 02:32 PM
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16. Checking in
I find sports to be meaningless and distracting. Why so many are so enamored of them is something I'll probably never understand.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 02:33 PM
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17. What is the NCAA tournament?
National Cats and Aardvarks tournament? I'd root for the cats any day?
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 02:35 PM
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18. Glad the Terps won the ACC. But HATE "March madness!" eom
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