Sports Questions
See my previous quote: Football is violence interspersed with committee meetings. Basketball is too high-scoring for me—over 200 total points per game is common. Soccer is the pits—“nil-nil” ties are not uncommon. NOTE, I’m discussing the game itself, not the culture that surrounds it. They are all screwed
by big money. I prefer hockey, the only game with no timeouts for substitutions.
Posted by Oink
02/08/2005 at 07:00 AM
And with hockey, we’re fucked there too ‘cause the fucking players won’t agree to a salary cap! I hope the NHL cancels the rest of the season and wipes out ALL the fucking player contracts so they can start fresh next year!
Vilmar: The reason the damn Super Bowl is 4 hours is because of all the damn Commercials and TV timeouts. Thank goodness it isn’t scored like baseball!
Macker is right. $$$ =
for those who love the game itself. How about those last two minutes in a tight basketball game on TV? With commercials it takes… what? ... seems like an hour.
Another hockey fan suggested the answer for hockey: dissolve the NHL and begin from scratch.
Still, for the game per se —not what TV and $$ have made it into—I prefer hockey.
Posted by Oink
02/08/2005 at 10:38 AM
I too prefer hockey above all other sports. I do like football, will occasionally watch baseball (prefer live to on tv) but I can’t stand basketball. What is it with that game, “he touched me, foul” bunch of whiners! Let’s see them play that game on ice and skates with body checks and maybe it would be interesting.
As for the NHL this year, I can’t believe these players would rather be out of a salary than take a deal where they share in the profits. ARG! It has helped the minor leagues generate a larger audience though.
Shasta: When my son was in the 6th grade he had a basketball game immediately following a hockey game. He fouled out in the second quarter. The ref did not see it your way.
Posted by Oink
02/08/2005 at 04:45 PM
