What sport would you outlaw, if you could?

[Archae]

And pro wrestling doesn't count, because it AIN'T a sport. :P

For me, it'd be professional boxing.
The promoters are so corrupt they stink, they "use up" boxers then throw them out.

Agree? Disagree?

Any others?

[Catchawave]

1. Horse and Dog racing...

cock and dog fighting....some states do outlaw fighting and dog racing.

I wouldn't outlaw human sports, because people choose to participate :hi:

[smitty]

36. Sports involving animals.

By their natures, animals cannot give consent to their participation.

[Robb]

37. Tell that to my sled dogs.

[Catchawave]

57. Recreational mushing is fine with me....

However, BIG BUCK races like the Iditarod pith me off. I'm glad there's a movement to shut it down.

[Robb]

64. LOL!

"Big buck?" :D

Pretty ignorant about Iditarod. Mushing, too, sounds like. :hi:

[Catchawave]

66. LOL....

I.am.not.ignorant.about.the.Iditarod. Major animal cruelty/abuse.

[Robb]

69. No, you're wholly ignorant. It's quite apparent.

I've worked on several. You?

"Big Bucks" was the giveaway ... Iditarod winner this year took home a $75K purse and a new truck. Spent $60K running the race. It's a guess, but that kennel should cost between $40K and $75K annually to operate. 'Round about 12th place, purse drops near $10K and below. Friend of mine won $1,200.

Spent any time with Iditarod mushers? Some are huge dickwads. But even the dickwads -- especially, rather, the dickwads -- take more care with their animals than anyone I've met outside of that world.

You want a cutting edge vet? Iditarod. You want the most researched diets? Iditarod. You want to see animals and humans working together? You want to see trust on a deeper level -- and I'm talking about trusting the dogs, here -- than anyplace else on earth?

Or do you want to pretend you have any idea what takes place between a musher and his dogs?

I had a dog who could crawl into his own harness, and would do so in the morning, sit by my bed, and wait for my sorry ass to wake up at a leisurely 5 a.m. to go for a run.

His sister completed Iditarod last year.

If you want to try to perpetuate the cruelty to sled dogs myth, ESPECIALLY at Iditarod, play somewhere where no one's been there. Because it won't play in front of me.

[Catchawave]

72. OK, I'll play...here:

http://www.helpsleddogs.org/faq.htm

This is all I need to know :hi:

[Robb]

79. Don't bother checking for yourself, then.

If you did, you'd find the site's creator has been thoroughly outed as a liar in AK, and was kicked off Wikipedia for lack of citations, sockpuppeting, and removing content.

Margery Glickman lives in Miami, and is a nutjob. She told Salon in 2002 the Disney movie "Snow Dogs" was going to convince children they should bite one another's ears to assert dominance.

And you're rather buying into it. Shame.

[Catchawave]

84. Sources ?

I'm a friend of Ms. Glickman's :hi:

[Robb]

85. She knows as much about sled dogs

...as I know about offshore powerboat racing. Which is what I read somewhere once.

You can use Google as well as anyone else, I'm sure. And I'm sorry to say your friend is, at best, misguided.

[Catchawave]

87. No, I need your sources...

You see, I believe her, and if you can prove her wrong, I'll be happy to take a look. Thanks.

[Blue_In_AK]

96. ...

http://www.iditarod.com/2-6.html

[Catchawave]

165. The Official Iditarod website....?

...corporate sponsored, which pays for the veterinary expertise :sigh:

BTW, the modern Iditarod isn't anything like the original medical run they want us to believe they're honoring :cry:

[Blue_In_AK]

167. Whatever...

I've been witnessing Iditarod races for 30 years, and I've never yet seen a dog that wasn't more than excited to get out on the trail. Witness the mushers with their dogs and you can see how much they're loved. My guess is the Iditarod dogs are treated and cared for much better than a lot of house puppies. And Robb is right - the mushers aren't in it for the money, but for the love of the sport.

But you're entitled to your opinion, as we are to ours.

Peace.

[Catchawave]

169. My dear Blue_Ak.....

You haven't witnessed the "lower-than-pond-scum-dog-breeders-kill-the-slow-ones" of this "sport" !?!?....those doggies never made the *starting" line of this *sport*.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining....any *sport* that includes an animal, means more DIE for human pleasure/sport/???

[Robb]

97. I'll meet you halfway

This woman has done a balanced job here and here of addressing much myth that has been repeated. I say balanced, in that I don't agree with all her findings, for example the winning kennels use dog barns rather than tie-outs.

Don't miss this vet who's study was misquoted, and a trip to Jeff King's kennel.

King's impressive, but no Martin Buser, who crossed the finish line in 2003 and unhooked his dogs in the finish area, rolling around and playing with them, giving interviews while the pups went out to meet the crowd, then a single whistle brought them crowding around him, jumping up, as he walked them to the truck.

Cruel fellow that he is. ;)

I'll also apologize for my behavior; you know how a lot of folks here react to LaRouche support? I'm that way with this.

[Catchawave]

164. Your links are corporate sponsored :(((

Sun Huskey is a nemesis of mine when I "worked" for ARO. She trashed me also :cry:

Like I said, animal protectionists don't have a problem with recreational mushing, as long as the dogs aren't overworked, destroyed for lack of spirit, and get to be part of their human family. You know, a family sport, like we have for human kids!

[Robb]

170. Your NEMESIS is a SCHOOL TEACHER?!?

:rofl:

I'll look forward to the final battle between good and evil taking place in homeroom during recess. Good luck with that.

I'm done. :D

[Blue_In_AK]

92. Right on, Robb...

Here's an Iditapuppy just for you...



and Jeff King, this year's winner

[jakefrep]

54. Tell that to my racehorses. nt

[Catchawave]

59. We're trying n/t

[Catchawave]

56. Exactly....

but what happens to the losers !? Oh, I forgot about Bullfighting...sport?

[HuskerDU]

2. For the first time in my life I went to a pro boxing match a couple

of years ago. The top card was Merciless Ray Mercer vs somebody I had never heard of. Anyway, the action of the first few bouts was very intense. Probably the most intense sporting action I had ever seen live in person.

At the end of one of the undercard fights, both fighters raised their hands in triumph even though it was clear that one of them had been beaten badly. During the Mercer fight, the PA guy asked the ringside doctor to go help the fighter who had just lost the previous fight.

I found out the next morning that the fighter who needed treatment died that night.

I don't wanna outlaw much of anything. I consider myself somewhat of a leftwing libertarian. But it was sure a sick feeling to know that a man had died trying to earn a living entertaining sports fans like myself.

Heck, I didn't even pay to attend the fight. I worked the door for my temp agency and got free tix for my trouble. But regardless, it was a very sick feeling to know that the boxer's family would be one person short, just because of sports entertainment.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. If boxing is a legitimate sport they should require head gear.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

71. It should be optional.

It's optional in full-contact karate for adults (more brutal than boxing) and so it should be optional in boxing.

[Wetzelbill]

103. headgear is worse

you can't move your head fast enough to get away from punches. You get hit a lot more with it. It isn't one blow that does damage, the accumulation does. Headgear is good for sparring and shorter 3 round amateur bouts, but for a ten or twelve round fight it would cause a guy to absorb way more hard punches than they would otherwise. Taking punishment is a bad deal either way, there isn't anything here outside of outlawing boxing that would be a satisfactory answer for those who are concerned about that type of violent punishment. Boxing by nature is going to get violent at times. Not much can be done about that besides wearing gloves and having rules, unless it's abolished altogether.

[AngryAmish]

128. Headgear does not prevent majority of knockouts

This is how a knockout happens (usually) - a boxer gets hit on the jaw, the jaw acts as a lever spinning the head around. The brain sits in fluid inside the head. The brain does not spin at the same rate ( a little delayed) as the skull. The brain comes in contact with the skull. This causes a concussion which causes a lack of consciousness (all the way from getting your bell rung to lack of motor control to unconsciousness).

All the headgear does is protect the wearer from cuts and also cushions the blow a little on non-knockout punches as well as protect the hands of the puncher.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

70. Yeah, so what a boxer died?

Before you flame me, I've competed in full-contact martial arts before. In order to get a black belt, we ABUSE people pretty much. The boxer knows what he's getting into and you basically sign your life away before a fight. Even in non-contact martial arts events, I'd have to sign a bunch of waivers basically stating that if I became paralyzed or got killed, no one involved could be held responsible.

You sign that waiver, you sign your life away. Done deal. You know what you're doing. If you're not prepared for that, stick to table tennis.

Do I want to see fighters die? No. Is it sad? Yes. Does it mean that boxing needs more regulation or to be banned? HELL FUCKING NO!

[Oeditpus Rex]

143. Hey!

I've had some life-threatening table tennis injuries, lemme tell ya! Those corners are sharp.

O' course, this is really a factor only in full-contact table tennis.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

144. Actually, I ended up bleeding TWICE while playing air hockey.

Sure, I could beat up and out run my 13-year-old step-brother, without breaking a sweat or raising my heart rate, but he is a force to be reckoned with in air hockey.

[HuskerDU]

156. I'm sorry that I did not make my point clear. I would not

outlaw boxing. I just felt it was a real shame that a guy died trying to entertain a tent full of sports fans.

[TheMightyFavog]

3. Figure Skating.

It's nothing but a waste of a perfectly good hockey rink. :evilgrin:

[Deja Q]

6. With scenes like these, I don't blame you!

That is not figure skating.

[derby378]

12. Hey, babyyyyy...

:evilgrin:

[dysfunctional press]

34. how about NUDE figure skating...?

it'd put a whole new perspective on a camel spin.

[Deep13]

115. Wow. Let's burn the libraries while we at at it.

They waste space that could be used for something loud and obnoxious. Figure skaters are 100x the athletes that hockey players are. I guess it is not a sport because it does not divide people into winners and losers.

[Deja Q]

4. The sex olympics.

:rofl:

[JVS]

94. When I was in HS, a friend highly recommended that video

[MissMillie]

5. anything that involves the use of fossil fuels

we need more conservation in this country.

[Catchawave]

62. I think a car in the Indy 500 used veggie oil ?

Wonder how they did?

Though I don't think Nascar is close to switching over?

[mduffy31]

107. Open wheel cars already use

Methanol to power their engines, rather than regular gas, next year they will go to 100% Ethanol.

[flvegan]

7. Rodeo, dog racing, horse racing and that Ultimate Fighting stuff.

Just not into watching abuse.

[terrya]

10. And certainly add bullfighting to that list.

Bullfighting is grotesque. I don't care how you can justify it.

[RebelOne]

31. And don't forget hunting. The cruelest of sports,

if you want to call it a "sport."

[flvegan]

44. How could I forget bullfighting? I think any sport that involves animals

right down to sled dog races should be outlawed.

Actually, I think that I could let non-professional polo pass. Usually, I think those horses are likely spoiled rotten and probably rarely get ridden too hard. I don't know though.

[Catchawave]

63. Animals really don't have a choice.....

when you think of it, a lot of animal abuse is involved in those "sports". Even *fishing* can be cruel :cry:

Oh, and dog *shows* which begat the puppy mill industry :cry:

Sorry, I got verklempt. Carry on :snork:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

75. Ultimate fighting is not abuse.

MMA (mixed martial arts) contain some of the best athletes on the planet. The people involved do it by choice and they're the most well-rounded martial artists around. I'm probably biased though because I have friends that compete in MMA and I'd probably do it myself, if there were more opportunities for women in it.

Even if you're not doing MMA, unless you're in some pussy buy-a-black-belt Tae Kwon Do school, you will be subject to extreme physical tests and pain to become a black belt.

As a Ni-Dan (2nd degree black belt), it is fucking worth it. We will weed out the weak. No one is there unless they want to be there. In my school, you also cannot get a black belt before 17, because we consider it a responsibility only to be given to an adult. On average, you study for seven years before getting a black belt, you're required to be a brown belt (belt before black) for three years before testing for black. We're very rough in my school and you know what...

The UFC fighters are among the best trained fighters on the planet...ranking up with Muay Thai Kickboxing, which I would consider FAR more brutal...and it should still never be outlawed.

[flvegan]

135. I should have been more specific

I'd like to not have it on television. I think that it's a little brutal to be on prime time. Just my opinion. I also agree, they are incredible athletes with incredible skills, all of whom could kick my ass. I know it's voluntary, and maybe "ban" is too strong a word here, and I should retract what I said about an all-out ban of it.

[Wetzelbill]

104. Ultimate fighting is pretty safe

outside of some bloody noses and some basic injuries here and there. A fight is a fight, it's often not too pretty, but it's probably easier on a person's body than say football is.

Most rodeo animals are unbelievably well taken care of. A few things I have seen though, just jerk my chain a little. I don't approve of the use of hotshots. I'm not a big fan of steer wrestling. Calf roping and team roping stem from a real world practicality, because they involve activities that a cowboy actually has to do on a ranch. But, I know calf roping seems pretty painful to the animal, when they are initially roped. I have never seen a calf seriously hurt though, but at the same time, I never competed in it, because I just don't like that sort of thing.

[Random_Australian]

8. Professional golf.

[Hosnon]

9. Boo :)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. As someone once said: "Golf is a nice walk ruined."

[bumblebee1]

42. I like Rosie O'Donnell's take on golf.

It's men in ugly pants walking.

[JCMach1]

39. Bad use of a good lawn

:)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

49. Oh, yes: The sport to watch grass grow.

:crazy:

:hide:

[JVS]

90. Hell yeah! Good idea!

[LeftyMom]

11. Rodeo

There's a great deal of abuse involved and it's very dangerous to humans who participate as well.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. No professional sports could be owned as profit-making businesses

They would all have to be owned by the cities where they were based, a la the Green Bay Packers, and all the players would have to be already living in the area when they were recruited.

[Mutley]

14. Bull fighting.

:grr:

[RedCappedBandit]

129. Agreed

[Faygo Kid]

171. Easy choice, and the right one.

Awful spectacle.

[Fox Mulder]

15. Racing.

All racing...from NASCAR to horse racing (I don't mind people racing on foot or with bikes, though). I'd also love to see the rodeo banned as well as hunting and fishing (if you consider hunting/fishing a sport...I don't).

Basically any sport that uses or involves animals I'd love to see banned.

[Giant Robot]

16. Hockey and Basketball just need to go. Sorry.

Flame away.

[HEyHEY]

47. Get bent, hockey is a true sport

[JVS]

91. Maybe for Canadians. It's your guys' version of soccer.

[pink-o]

17. any sport that uses animals

...is not a sport because whether they're treated well or abused, the animals are not willing participants. Humans can choose to be stupid and exacerbate their brain damage, so let 'em knock themselves out!

[LeftyMom]

18. Hey, you know what?

:yourock:

[pink-o]

43. Hey, thanx!

Yoo Too :bounce:

[blockhead]

55. try telling my Lab he can't go hunting with me,

a very willing participant

[LeftyMom]

60. Is what you're hunting choosing to participate?

It isn't a sport if they can't shoot back.

[RebelOne]

109. Right. It isn't a sport because the other side

doesn't know there is a game going on.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

114. Do you eat what you hunt?

Then, even as a pescarian, I have far more respect for you than carnivores that could never hunt, but will sit down and eat a packaged steak.

I'll eat fish. I know that I can kill and clean a fish (and I have). I'm not sure if I could do that with other animals, and so I don't eat them.

[AngryAmish]

131. What about dog obediance sports?

Like border collie herding or retreiving contests. Those dogs have herding, retreiving bred into them. They seem to really enjoy it.

[pink-o]

136. Yeah, we have bred dogs

for all sorts of functions. However, do you really think sledding in Alaska, herding sheep and evening hunting your dinner is considered a SPORT??????

Maybe there are competitions for such activites now, but initially the relationship between Man and Dog was of mutual necessity and advantage. Now...fox hunting and greyhound racing are heinous because there's nothing to them except sick entertainment.

Oscar Wilde on foxhunting: It's the Unspeakable in pursuit of the Inedible

[AngryAmish]

146. It is not sick entertainment, it is appreciating their beauty

If an animal is game...


I don't exactly have the moral high ground here, I go to cock fights.

[Patiod]

19. Basketball

but it would have to be retroactive to when I was a kid, and go dragged to my dad's and my brother's games every damned weekend.

And my family's idea of fun was a Sunday at the Palestra for "Big 5" basketball (Villanova, St. Joe's, Penn, Temple, Penn and someone else, with everyone yelling at top volume and decible level hovering around 120. And I have/had sensitive ears (I wear earplugs to go to my favorite concerts)

When I die, I'll know if I'm in hell if it's the Palestra for a Villanova/St. Joe's game....

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

20. Cricket

The tedium -- my God! It just goes on and on and nothing happens and people applaud gently and still it goes on. Then you wake up the next day and they're still playing the same bloody game.

[mwooldri]

98. You haven't seen 20/20 have you?

Now that's hardly boring - it's a game often played at night, just 20 overs a side.

A lot of people in India and Pakistan and Australia would vehemently disagree with you; to them cricket is a religion.

Test cricket? Yep, boring as heck at times... especially yes it goes on for days.

Baseball: World series where the Americans seem to always win.
Cricket: World series where the American's don't even take part.

[gpandas]

22. boxing

[Gidney N Cloyd]

23. Soccer.

Just because.

[ps1074]

25. no no no

Soccer is a great sport.

[Nailzberg]

33. Soccer???? Vinnie Jones would like a word with you.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

110. ...who?

[Nailzberg]

159. Notorious FA Premier League footballer

Vinnie would not take kindly to your banning soccer. He was once yellow carded after only 3 seconds of play.



He retired and used his tough guy persona to pursue an acting career. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, or most recently, as Juggernaut in X-Men 3.)

[tjwmason]

45. Strongly seconded.

It's impossible to avoid over here - and I've disliked it for years and years and years. :grr:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

50. Soccer drives me wacko.

Agreed.

[XemaSab]

26. Golf

It's a huge waste of water and land, and the chemicals used are appalling. :(

[amitten]

27. Oh, DEFINITELY football.

Boring, overly drawn-out, and it has sucked the very lifeblood from generation after generation of male spectators.

Get off the sofa, guys! There's a whole world out there waiting for you!!!!
It may not feature bulky sweaty men in clingy lycra pants, but it's still very, very interesting!!! :D

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

147. Yeah, 20 Sundays a year is really preventing me from seeing the world.

:eyes:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

150. I watch football AND...

Get this!

I've traveled Europe several times.

How did I ever find the time?

[sasquatch]

160. NFL Europe games don't count

:silly:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

161. All the games I've seen were either from...

a bar in NJ (most likely), somebody's house in NJ, or Giants Stadium (which Jets fans continue to wreck for Giants fans).

[sasquatch]

166. The Jets need to move back to Shea Stadium

[rustydog]

28. Nascar...

[dajoki]

95. ME TOO!!

[sasquatch]

116. Ditto

[speedoo]

132. Ditto.

It kills and maims people.

It wastes gas and promotes the wasting of gas by people who watch it.

I don't get it. Absolutely don't understand the popularity.

[Jade Fox]

29. Curling.....

The entire Human Race is shamed by it's sheer silliness. :silly:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

78. Curling needs to be destroyed.

By any means necessary. Most boring sport EVER!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

86. Agreed.

If I can do it, it's not a sport. :D

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

111. If the sport involves a "broom," it is not a sport. nt

[Nikia]

30. Boxing

A boxer can win by knocking out their opponent. Being knocked out is rather unhealthy as is receiving repeated blows on most parts of the body. There are other sports where an athlete might get injured in participating in their sport but the point of boxing is to injure your opponent.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

80. It's the boxer's choice to participate.

Yes, it's dangerous, but that's the risk you take.

[Monk06]

32. Extreme boxing, dog and cock fighting.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

77. What the hell is extreme boxing?

I'm a huge fan of fighting sports and I have never heard of this.

[Monk06]

106. Wrong word. Should have said ultimate fighting. Too many guys

getting seriously injured to suit me.
I saw one video where I guy got his bell
rung so bad he had a very serious concussion.

If a guy is standing and concussed he should be
rung out. Those ulimate guys are too tough for
their own good.

[dysfunctional press]

35. nascar and boxing.

nt

[REDKING]

38. Cricket,golf,basketball..what a bore..lala

:evilgrin:

[ldf]

40. must name three, and they go hand in hand in hand.

bullfighting and "sport" hunting and rodeos. there is absolutely no need for humans to use the pain and death of animals as "entertainment".

i don't give a damn what humans do to each other in the name of "sport", but any other living species should be off limits.

[jmowreader]

41. Anything that has parimutuel betting

This means, in the US, that I'd ban horse racing, dog racing, and jai alai. They're all dangerous and corrupt.

Parimutuel betting is here defined as a practice where bets are made and collected at the sporting venue on the sport being played at that venue, and the venue's not in Nevada or Atlantic City. We've got to say this because you can go to Harrah's in Vegas and bet on how long it's gonna take that little old lady to get across Fremont Street.

[lizziegrace]

46. Synchronized Swimming. n/t

[WoodyTobiasJr]

48. No question - it begins and ends with rodeo

And this is coming from someone in Calgary to boot!

I would also say hunting & fishing but they are hardly sports

[SethInUpstateNY]

51. Pro boxing, NASCAR, golf, and

soccer.

[WannaBePassingFair]

52. NASCAR

it is boring and pointless.

[jakefrep]

53. Ultimate fighting

If I want to watch bar brawls, I'll go to the bar. Same goes for those "Toughman" contests.

Failing that, competitive eating.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

82. Toughman sucks, but UFC has some of the best trained fighters.

They are artists. They are not bar brawlers. If you know the martial arts, you'd recognize their ability. They're the most well-rounded fighters around. The only others that equal them in "toughness" is the Muay Thai kickboxers, who I also have extreme respect for.

[Twillig]

125. Who cares how trained they are?

Because sooner or later one guy gets the other down in the missionary position and starts pounding the other guy with his elbows or beating his face like Ralphie in A Christmas Story.

OK, that's my little dig at UFC. I just had to say something snarky.

I guess if you don't care to see two people fight, it doesn't matter how good they are.

I wouldn't ban it though.

[JVS]

93. I've never found bars to be that conducive to brawls. Keep UFC!

[Guava Jelly]

58. I'm gonna get killed but football

I could give a rats ass about it and everyone around is so emotionally invested in it.
I wanna say hey the Kc Chiefs never win ain't ever gonna win so quit setting yourself up for disappointment

[miss_american_pie]

76. You rock

:thumbsup:

[Guava Jelly]

83. coming from one who rocks herself

thank you.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

81. My Son in law is a high school football coach

and we go to a lot of the games. My heart stops every time one of the kids ends up lying on the ground writhing in pain, or worse yet, motionless. With the competition increasing each year, much more is expected physically from these kids, and the risk of serious injury increases as well. BTW, SIL is an excellent coach who takes safety seriously with his players.

I don't think I would eliminate it, but I personally prefer seeing a sport with more skill and less "collision".

P.S. Please don't tell SIL that I am writing this :)

[edwin]

121. YES, so we can finally

start calling soccer by its proper name!

[Dukkha]

122. second that!

Football fans are truly pathetic! They make trekkies look mentally and socially balanced. It's just a recreational sport Get a life!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

124. Is this a bad time to say...

I was once on ESPN.com wearing a Giants jersey and throwing an Eagles jersey in front of moving traffic after we all stepped on it?

[Dukkha]

126. should I mention then

I was once on the front page of USA Today wearing a stormtrooper costume at a convention?
touche

[hyphenate]

61. I was ready to say boxing as well

and then I realised that there are too many bloodsports which feature animals who didn't ask to be involved in such degradation that often results in their brutal deaths. So anything that involves animals is barbaric enough to hate completely.

[LostInAnomie]

65. Baseball

Mostly because of the self righteousness of the fans.

[khashka]

67. Boxing

I don't have a problem with guys beating the hell out of each other or blood. Kinda turns me on really. But boxing makes me sick. I just hate it.

I don't mind a little violence in it's proper place ....but for cash? And you know how boxers end up? Serious neck and spinal injuries, pseudo Parkinsonism. Brain damage. And people cheer!

That is the one sport I would outlaw. Machismo at it's worst. And it's racist. How many white boxers compared to black boxers, huh? And all the up and coming Latino boxers? Funny how the boxers are mostly "ethnic" while the people who run it are mostly white.

Ok, I'll admit it shows skill and courage and ability. But I still find it disgusting.

Khash.

[AccessGranted]

68. Curling

It's foolishness.

[Catchawave]

73. But no animals died for Curling :)

Otherwise, foolish is as humans do :hi:

[Kajsa]

89. I like the way you think.

:hi: :thumbsup:

[Seabiscuit]

74. Golfing. I'm with George Carlin - turn all the golf courses into

graveyards.

Fuck golf and fuck all the fucking elitest asshole golfers.

[Kajsa]

88. Hunting.

The day the animals are equally equipt with weapons
and the ability to use them is the day they can call it
a sport!!

Until then, it's cold blooded murder.
:mad:

[TheMightyFavog]

139. You know, the auto body shops would love anti-hunting people like you.

Supporting measures that would give them a whole hell of a lot more buisness from people involved car/deer accidents.

[Kajsa]

141. That's a very unusual way to

look at it.

[mwooldri]

99. Darts. Bowls. Snooker. Tiddlywinks.

Well Tiddlywinks isn't a sport it's more of a game but hey I threw that one in there for fun.

I'd definitely ban darts. Basically because all they're doing is chucking these thin little lethal weapons at a board continually... they drink beer... and get fat.

I'd also definitely ban bowls. It's more tedious than cricket, heck watching paint drying is more fun.

Snooker I'd also ban. With pool they're going pot pot pot - the balls go into the hole and they are just going there and whacking it. With snooker they take ages just to line up one shot, sometimes getting funny cue extensions and bridges to be able to get to the ball, and all they do is miss the shot! Takes too long... should be able to whack the balls.

FYI I have played all the above sports and I am absolutely useless at all of them. Since I am useless at them, I might as well ban them.

Mark.

[Broken_Hero]

100. sorry...fans...

but Nascar...sorry...:( wait wait!!! I change my vote...GOLF, yes! Golf must go...bye bye golf, golf golf....GOLF MUST DIE!!!!....

[Ava]

101. boxing

i just don't see what's so great about two people knocking the crap out of each other.

[Wetzelbill]

105. it's pretty fun though

it's competition. People thrive on that one on one dimension. It dates back to our savage instincts. :)

[JohnKleeb]

134. Yeah I agree with that

I always did enjoy watching with my grandfather as a kid though if I ever did it I'd get my ass whomped.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

117. As someone who has competed in full-contact karate...

because it's seriously fun as hell. Is it fun as hell for everyone? No. Do I love fighing? Hell FUCKING yeah! Do I fight outside of a ring? No. If you don't like it, don't watch it. There's no reason for it to be banned.

I consider myself basically a pacifist. I'm against wars and violent crimes. Two consenting skilled fighters exhibiting skill, nothing wrong with it.

[Robeson]

102. Boxing, and any other "sport" that abuses animals.

[CanuckAmok]

108. Jailai

Lousy Jailai players... think they're so great...

[madinmaryland]

112. Definately, Curling.

I don't want to watch people polish ice!

:wtf:

[NoPasaran]

113. Dwarf tossing

[sasquatch]

118. Hey, how else are they supposed to fly

[NoPasaran]

119. You probably have the same attitude

About dynamite fishing.

[sasquatch]

120. WHAT I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE BLAST!!

:nuke:

[dpbrown]

123. Boxing - no other "sport" has brain injury as its goal

And I don't buy the "it's their choice" either. It might also be some girl's choice to enter into a life of prostitution to escape poverty, but that doesn't make it a wonderful choice.

[RedStateShame]

127. ALL COLLEGIATE SPORTS

It's an institution of higher learning, not a place to show off one's games skills. That, or I demand all universities offer full-ride scholarships in Beating Resident Evil 2 on the First PlayStation, making hand-fart noises, and/or whiskey drinking. What do they have to education? Absolutely nothing!! But last I checked, neither is putting a ball in a hole.

[TheMightyFavog]

140. Full ride scholarships for whiskey drinking?

UWSP practically offers those already.

[1gobluedem]

130. It's a tossup

Boxing or NASCAR.

[GOPisEvil]

133. So, to whom shall I turn in my liberal card?

I play golf, and I've been known to enjoy horse racing and some other sports listed here. I guess that makes y'all more liberal than me.

I cannot stand lists like this, and I can't stand being told what to like and what not to like. It smacks of moral superiority and rankles me to no end.

[Wetzelbill]

137. Jackpot!

:)

[NNadir]

138. Frayed clothesline hopping.

I hate that sport.

[Initech]

142. Auto racing and golf

Use that gas for something productive!

Golf - use that land for something productive. I like George Carlin's idea of turning golf courses into homeless shelters.

[SaveElmer]

145. Soccer...a more boring sport I cannot imagine...

Makes golf look like non-stop action...

Ninety minutes running up and down the field...almost no scoring...

I mean how many sports have so many 0-0 ties!!!

Ugh

[anarch]

148. equestrian diving

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

151. Is that even a sport? nt

[anarch]

152. somehow I doubt it

so instead I'll say, Greco-Roman Fucking. Or maybe water tennis. I don't like any of those. x(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

153. Oh come on...

Greco-Roman Fucking is a jolly good time.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

149. Some animal sports.

I would outlaw cock and pitbull fighting (already illegal just about everywhere), dog racing (but not sledding), and bull fighting.

[AngryAmish]

154. That thing with the sticks those Grateful Dead fans do

Those people should go to jail.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

155. Hey! I'm really good at that!

And I'm not a hippie either.

[AngryAmish]

157. sorry, jailbird

Away you go!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

158. I hope not.

I could theoretically end up in jail soon. Probably not, but it all depends on how much of a dick the army decides to be.

[Common Sense Party]

162. Dodgeball. Cruel and unusual punishment.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

163. Fox News did a special on it a couple months ago.

Oh wait...that was tag. Anyway, they did a special, "Tag: Innocent Childhood Fun or DANGEROUS GAME?" It was on the tv in the bar...even my Republican (although now HATES Bush) friend said, "Um...last time I checked, there was a WAR. Why the hell are the running a special on the possible perils of tag?"

[noonwitch]

168. Boxing-it makes me sad to see Ali these days

When I was a kid, Muhammed Ali was held up as a role model to all kids. My hippie elementary teachers all loved him for his refusal to be drafted.

He was so quick and always had a smart answer for the media. He even had a cartoon and a theme song!

Now I see him and his difficulty talking, I just want to cry. I know his intellect is still intact-he writes letters to the editor of Detroit papers regarding children's issues once in a while. I know that the claim is that he has Parkinson's, but it seems to me he has brain damage from taking too many punches to the head.

[Paladin]

172. Hunting With A Bow And Arrow

As archaic as it is barbaric. Animals suffer a slow, agonizing death, many of them never recovered by jerk-offs who don't know how to track game.

Why participate in a "sport" that has Ted Nugent as its poster boy?