[quote]AdamC wrote:
and all you americans can say what you want about football, but the fact remains that it is the world game. no one really cares about baseball, NFL, ice hockey, and basketball, except americans. so your comments do not rile me up one bit. in the face! into the face![/quote]
American Football is purely american…Baseball is huge in Japan and Korea. Ice hockey is huge in Russia and Western Europe and basketball is slowly gaining on soccer’s popularity. And you buck tooth limey it’s IN YOUR FACE! IN YOUR FACE! See you limey bastards in June. USA! USA!USA![/quote]
I find it interesting how countries like Sweden, Finland, The Czech Republic and Slovakia, each with populations less than 3 % of your population beat your sorry asses time and time again.[/quote]
Again, since this is not the BB forum. I hypothesize that MOST people would agree that thats a great look for a white guy (in and out of this site). That or Channing Tatum.
Go ahead, take a poll.
[quote]Kerley wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
This thread is 5 pages long.
I am having a hard time understanding that.
5 pages.
Please tell me this isn’t the new physique goal of 2010.[/quote]
[quote]Spartiates wrote:
Baseball has some of the most non-athletic “athletes” any sport the world over (except maybe cricket) [/quote]
WTF is UNathletic? If its considered a sport and you’re playing it at the highest competitive level, then you have a good athletic disposition for THAT sport. Be it cricket, or baseball, or east mongolian nose whistling, or even pneumonoultramiscroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosistrophlegmomanoevering.
Or maybe you have your OWN set of athletic standards vis-a-vis strength, endurance, V02max and flexibility that you have meticulously tested the leading athletes against.
zero body composition? Lol, are they filled with white-space or “ether”?
[quote]Spartiates wrote:
Baseball has some of the most non-athletic “athletes” any sport the world over (except maybe cricket) [/quote]
WTF is UNathletic? If its considered a sport and you’re playing it at the highest competitive level, then you have a good athletic disposition for THAT sport. Be it cricket, or baseball, or east mongolian nose whistling, or even pneumonoultramiscroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosistrophlegmomanoevering.
Or maybe you have your OWN set of athletic standards vis-a-vis strength, endurance, V02max and flexibility that you have meticulously tested the leading athletes against.
zero body composition? Lol, are they filled with white-space or “ether”?[/quote]
I would have said that it’s probably their ‘mana pool’.
Ronaldo maintains his amazing physique by lifting in excess of 20 tonnes - the equivalent of 10 Audi 4x4s - during a full weight training session.
5t of which is leg press…
btw, is it just me, or “tricep curl” should be triceps extension? it’s not like one can curl with a muscle that has the function of straightening the arm…[/quote]
The calculations on that page are hilarious in their stupidity.
[quote]Spartiates wrote:
… and American Football, where a 90% of the buys have zero body composition (I’m sure someone will post a picture of the one of the 1 in 10 who do), and take a two minuet breather for ever five seconds of actual play. [/quote]
You obviously do not watch many NFL games. Stupid post.
[quote]Spartiates wrote:
… and American Football, where a 90% of the buys have zero body composition (I’m sure someone will post a picture of the one of the 1 in 10 who do), and take a two minuet breather for ever five seconds of actual play. [/quote]
You obviously do not watch many NFL games. Stupid post.
Soccer never caught on because it’s boring as hell.[/quote]
So are American football games live, without the benefit of a million beer commercials and incessant statistical analysis by talking heads. I personally can’t stomach American football - 10 seconds of action, followed by 30 seconds of other stuff. It’s too ADD for me to enjoy. Soccer and hockey generally have the best flows of action during games.
I didn’t read this whole thread, just wanted to stop by and say it’s mad gay for people to spend pages whining about people admiring some dude’s physique.
[quote]Spartiates wrote:
… and American Football, where a 90% of the buys have zero body composition (I’m sure someone will post a picture of the one of the 1 in 10 who do), and take a two minuet breather for ever five seconds of actual play. [/quote]
You obviously do not watch many NFL games. Stupid post.
Baseball is pretty boring…yet its “America’s past time.”
Actually going to a proper FOOTBALL game you find out why its the world’s greatest and most popular sport. The atmosphere is incredible, the people are so passionate and you get people chanting and singing. In Europe, the continent where I was born football is part of life. The first question someone would ask someone else from Europe (whatever country) would be “where are you from?”. The second would be “who do you support?.”
No shit American football players have better physiques, the game is based on athleticism entirely. With soccer you could be 150 lbs but if you can handle the football and strike with terror your body, you’re good.
Football is the beautiful game. If America was the best at “soccer” it would be the 2nd most popular sport in that country. The reason its not too popular over there is because culturally Americans grew up with baseball, football and basketball.
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
…If America was the best at “soccer” it would be the 2nd most popular sport in that country. The reason its not too popular over there is because culturally Americans grew up with baseball, football and basketball.
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Wrong. The U.S. is the best in the world at women’s basketball and it still isn’t popular. You know why? Because it’s boring to watch, just like soccer. There are a lot of sports the U.S. is great at. That alone doesn’t make them popular.
Your arguments regarding culture have some merit, but don’t forget that soccer was around before football. America had to invent football because soccer was just too damn boring to play.
