If you could ban one sport...

JerryHandbag · 29-06-2008 12:46am

Rugby....mainly because it would stop those unbearable Munster "supporters" who jump on the bandwagon, the same knobs who didnt even follow the sport a few short years ago, and still probably couldnt even explain the basic rules of the sport and yet the fork out loads to go to the games, buy the jerseys, jackets, umbrellas, tracksuits etc etc because its "cool" to follow MUNSHTER.....oh please, do me a favour....i dont actually hate rugby but i HATE these people i f****n HATE them....and lots of them arent even from or born in Munster - I know some of them! Baffling!

I also think Cricket should be banned as should Formula 1 motor racing, how that can be classified as a sport is beyond me....its called DRIVING! I do it every day! What next.....watchin telly will be declared on Olympic sport?!

Rant over, god i feel better already

sure sure · 29-06-2008 5:35am

can't recall the name but the ' sport' that involves sliding a stone along ice while two twats go ape sit with sweeping brushes!!! WTF!!!!!!! :eek:

marti101 · 29-06-2008 9:10am

Bowls i cant stand it,maybe it suddenly gets interesting when you hit 60

thebman · 29-06-2008 11:52pm

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Baffling!

I also think Cricket should be banned as should Formula 1 motor racing, how that can be classified as a sport is beyond me....its called DRIVING! I do it every day! What next.....watchin telly will be declared on Olympic sport?!

Rant over, god i feel better already

It is baffling that you compare racing an F1 car to you driving each day. Truely an incredibly ignorant statement.

Just watch Richard Hammond from Top Gear attempt to drive an F1 car and you'll find out why its a sport. Its incredible physical and there is a lot of technique to it compared to you driving :rolleyes:

If your going to complain about a sport that doesn't require much activity, pick fooking Chess!

genericgoon · 29-06-2008 11:54pm

sure sure wrote: »

can't recall the name but the ' sport' that involves sliding a stone along ice while two twats go ape sit with sweeping brushes!!! WTF!!!!!!! :eek:

Curling, I believe.

Dr_MaSoN · 30-06-2008 12:49am

Dwarf tossing.

Its just not fair on the little guys.

dango · 30-06-2008 1:11am

Of the people who hate cricket, mma, dwarf tossing (these seem most prominent) how many have actually played these sports (or participated in the case of tossing off dwarves

)?

MooseJam · 30-06-2008 1:14am

who won the football today

shanel23 · 30-06-2008 9:12am

Figure skating , gymnastics .

stovelid · 30-06-2008 11:01am

Rugby.

r3nu4l · 30-06-2008 1:26pm

strawberryb0y wrote: »

Of what.
I find gaelic and rugby to be very boring sports and i also dislike sports where physicality counts for more than skill does.

Ya know, using physicality properly and effectively is also a skill...

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Any sport with the exceptions of probably chess....... Involves some level of homo eroticism as you put it when men play it.

Surely you jest??? Chess is the most homoerotic of all sports. Think about it. You have two men in close proximity to one another with only a small table dividing them. When thinking about his move, each man can curl his fingers around a knight, bishop or King and stroke it casually before moving.

Not to mention the "Queen" who has unlimited freedom, to swishabout the board in all directions. Yep, no doubt about it, GOD HATES CHESS!

:pac:

colly10 · 30-06-2008 1:34pm

Bowls, figure skating, gymnastics, snycronised swimming, anything which involves dancing (if considered a sport), curling (awful, imagine being one of the guys that does the sweeping), cricket (a sport but seems boring).

Also chess (I don't think it's considered a sport but if it is, it shouldn't be)

olympicsin2008 · 15-07-2008 7:45pm

kelle wrote: »

Football, so I'd see more of my husband. And I'd get to watch Coronation Street more often.

I can't understand why Darts is called a sport. It doesn't exactly involve physical exertion (which is what I though a sporting activity involved). I use more energy doing the knitting.

of all the olympic sports to name, you've chosen football? now how are we going to work on our beer bellies me lady?

if only drinking beer were an olympic sport, we'd all be champions!

Phlann · 15-07-2008 7:48pm

Hurling.

Don't have anything against it but it does seem to attract alot of preachy feckers who are only too keen to tell you how all those 'tan sports' pale in comparison to it.

I'd just like to see the look on their faces if they couldn't play it anymore.

Mike... · 15-07-2008 7:52pm

Tennis and Soccer,
I would also like to ban the olympics...****in hate them
genetic mutants fuelled by Columbian Cartels competitin against each other

gaf1983 · 15-07-2008 7:58pm

A friend of mine once managed to get a letter published on ITV Teletext calling for the banning of cricket. Some of the indignant responses it generated were hilarious!

I'd leave cricket alone, having played it once or twice on the beach, also seems to lend itself to enormous amounts of beer drinking or effigy-burning among the supporters, depending on what part of the world they come from - cricket must be doing something right!

If I had to ban any sport it would be that perennial Eursport favourite, the winter biathlon. Basically it involves people skiing around with rifles on their backs, then every so often they crouch down to shoot at a target.

I just don't see how they can justify blending two completely different disciplines together, skiing and shooting, and giving it a new name thinking it's a new sport. Why not have a sport where you have to drive a scooter around a circuit stopping off every now and then to serve tennis balls at a target, or mix boxing with marathon running? Who are these people kidding.

Another sport that got my goat was articulated truck racing - another Eurosport special.

While I'm on this ranting at various aspects of sport, why the HELL isn't camogie simply called women's hurling? I mean women's tennis isn't called schmugger, women's athletics isn't called eik, even women's gaelic football is simply called women's gaelic football. The GAA, you have a lot to answer for.

Ruu_Old · 15-07-2008 8:03pm

gaf1983 wrote: »

A friend of mine once managed to get a letter published on ITV Teletext calling for the banning of cricket. Some of the indignant responses it generated were hilarious!

I'd leave cricket alone, having played it once or twice on the beach, also seems to lend itself to enormous amounts of beer drinking or effigy-burning among the supporters, depending on what part of the world they come from - cricket must be doing something right!

If I had to ban any sport it would be that perennial Eursport favourite, the winter biathlon. Basically it involves people skiing around with rifles on their backs, then every so often they crouch down to shoot at a target.

I just don't see how they can justify blending two completely different disciplines together, skiing and shooting, and giving it a new name thinking it's a new sport. Why not have a sport where you have to drive a scooter around a circuit stopping off every now and then to serve tennis balls at a target, or mix boxing with marathon running? Who are these people kidding.

Another sport that got my goat was articulated truck racing - another Eurosport special.

While I'm on this ranting at various aspects of sport, why the HELL isn't camogie simply called women's hurling? I mean women's tennis isn't called schmugger, women's athletics isn't called eik, even women's gaelic football is simply called women's gaelic football. The GAA, you have a lot to answer for.

Don't leave out tractor pulling.

Speed golf would be fun with a few players teeing off at the same time but probably too dangerous.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 15-07-2008 8:11pm

r3nu4l wrote: »

Ya know, using physicality properly and effectively is also a skill...

Surely you jest??? Chess is the most homoerotic of all sports. Think about it. You have two men in close proximity to one another with only a small table dividing them. When thinking about his move, each man can curl his fingers around a knight, bishop or King and stroke it casually before moving.

Not to mention the "Queen" who has unlimited freedom, to swishabout the board in all directions. Yep, no doubt about it, GOD HATES CHESS!

:pac:

How about chessboxing...? Apparetnly, it IS real

Joe Cool · 15-07-2008 8:12pm

Ultimate Frisbee.

nualsnuals · 15-07-2008 8:44pm

golf sucks eggs...........any sport that is not a spectators sport seems pointless to me. against my better judgment tho i really like figure skating.......i know i know im a loser. however the only sport i actually play is gealic football.........ok there is my random rant that was almost completely unrelated to the topic at hand.......vent offically over.

nualsnuals · 15-07-2008 8:52pm

just to clarify i realise that golf is a spectator sport. actually all sports could be potentially spectator sports if people are bored enuf to watch them or in my case losing the remote can lead to such unfortunate occurances.mmm what smiley face to use no not this time.........

Balfe · 14-01-2009 2:18pm

Wacker wrote: »

What sort of fight are we talking about here? I don't believe for a second that the likes of BJ Penn, Georges St Pierre or AndersonSilva would beat the guys you mentioned in a boxing match, but if you think (eg.) Mayweather could expect to beat BJ Penn (who is about his size, fighting at 155lbs) in an MMA fight, then you really don't know what you're talking about at all.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LCsyGduUvzE

This is what happens when boxers try to beat MMA fighters with just boxing. He taps out before he is even put in a hold!

Technically, you're not correct on this. Royce wasn't an MMA fighter, he was simply a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fighter. The sport of Mixed Martial Arts didn't really exist at this stage.

I do see your point though.

Biggins · 14-01-2009 2:22pm

Cricket.

Boring schite idea claimed from India by the English and called it their own.
The only thing cricket bats should be used for is to belt the brains (or lack there of...) out of the players into a bloody mess strewn across the playing fields of Britannia!

Wagon · 14-01-2009 2:27pm

Poker :mad: It shouldn't be classified as a sport and if i wanted to see a bunch of **** sitting around a table throwing cards at each other I'd go the the local. At least a fight breaks out there and people get excersise.

marcsignal · 14-01-2009 2:27pm

MooseJam wrote: »

which one would you, I'd go for golf, bloody elitist knobbers robbing the countryside for their stupid game, I wouldn't even call it a sport

I agree OP

and I would replace it with the new sport of 'Celebrity Cage Fighting'
Twink and Louis Walsh would be first up, fighting it out to the death.

Now THAT would be entertaining