Originally Posted by Danzig (Post 882948)

if they started allowing checking, i might start watching soccer...but that won't happen.

Originally Posted by ddthetide (Post 882945)

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i watched NO basketball men or women and i wouldn't watch soccer if they played in my back yard.

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell (Post 882028)

I have a hard time understanding why anyone would want to watch a competition knowing that the participants are vastly inferior to others that could be competing in that sport. It wouldnt be more interesting to watch Tiger and Rory and Luke Donald and Ernie Els and other guys playing for their countries than a bunch of amatuers that no one has ever heard of?

I guess some people like all the flowery prose and nonsense that the olympic telecasts feed you. They are fixing badmiton matches. The damn ping pong players are professionals. Some amateur boxing matches have been fixed. Virtually every female gymnastic participant appears to be a borderline victim of child abuse.

At least the pros there are playing for free

Originally Posted by Antitrust32 (Post 883166)

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Olympics are about being the best and representing your country. Of course the pro's, aka the best in the world, should be playing. It would suck if Stern makes that rule.

On another Olympic topic... I saw an event that was ballet but they threw balls in the air and caught them. wtf?? Olympic ball catching? How do you give a nutcracker performance a gold medal?

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell (Post 883169)

MMA which I dont even follow would be a great olympic sport if they didnt dumb it down like they do boxing. Could you imagine some 7'5"dude from the hinterlands of Mongolia showing up in the heavyweight division?

Originally Posted by Antitrust32 (Post 883166)

:tro::tro:

Olympics are about being the best and representing your country. Of course the pro's, aka the best in the world, should be playing. It would suck if Stern makes that rule.

On another Olympic topic... I saw an event that was ballet but they threw balls in the air and caught them. wtf?? Olympic ball catching? How do you give a nutcracker performance a gold medal?

Originally Posted by Danzig (Post 883175)

i think you're referring to rhythmic gymnastics...but you were watching for the chicks, weren'tcha??? ;)