I guess it’s agree to disagree on the definition of sport. I see the arguments both ways, it just doesn’t fall under what I consider sport, like pool, snooker and dressage.
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Is golf not a sport? That’s surely about the same level of skill requirement as pool/snooker.
I don’t really know about dressage. Seems like the horses should debate that one.
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For me sport is a combination of skill / co-ordination combined with an element of physical prowess, where both elements contribute to success. Throwing a dart faster makes no difference to your score, hitting a golf ball further does. So in this case for me golf is a sport, just (where mini golf wouldn’t be, if it went professional), but darts not.
If it’s pure skill, no matter how much skill that means, I call it a game not a sport. Just a personal distinction I guess.
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I am ashamed of you. And you call
Yourself an Englishman !! 
I certainly don’t mean to denigrate pub games, they have their own glorious tradition in their own right. I only mean to distinguish them from sports.
In the same way that I would distinguish ice cream and steak as sweet and savoury, while enjoying them both.
P.s South African who embraces Britishness as opposed to actually being an Englishman
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I don’t have the energy to to argue the case for darts as a sport and have little care factor either. I do however think there are many definitions of what a sport really is and is not. And many people have different opinions. I agree with you regarding the tradition of darts and it is truly as you put it glorious.
Everyone seems to be having a good time drinking beer and celebrating and all during a game of darts.
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Completely agree, certainly not trying to suggest my view here is the correct one, just that it’s the one I hold and feel comfortable with.
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Last time I saw darts cause this much of an uproar was that time I crashed my Dodge into a schoolbus.
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Now That’s a sport!
Totally: lotta athleticism needed in that foot pursuit.
Look up Andy Fordham.
Guy was an insanely good and massively overweight darts player.
He leaned out and actually became shit at the sport. All those beers and curries were fuelling his performance to championship winning levels.
I like the way he used jewellery to highlight where his wrists actually were.
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If he didn’t, everything would slump down and his hands would just look like a sausage with finger nails.
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This is going way back and probably one of the dumbest things I can recall. Does anyone remember the one coach who would take scrawny high school football players stuff then in canvas squat suits with tons of bands strapped on ?
I remember it being “Joe Average” but I just looked through youtube and couldn’t find it.
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Yeah that’s him! Thanks I could not remember his name! What a genius he was I must say!
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Fixed that for you.
And people say darts isnt physical.
It would involve a fair degree of strength and coordination and physical effort for Andy to get out of a chair let alone stand for hours on end and hold
His arm up to throw the darts.
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