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If you could ban one sport...

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    #542
    Mac daddy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,942 ✭✭✭Mac daddy


    I would ban that Race walking what a waste of time pointless " Sport " it is.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_walking

    Reminds me of that Malcom in the middle when Hal does the race walking absolutley brilliant episode.


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    #543
    tommybrennan15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭tommybrennan15


    Horse racing I just hate the sport actually I dont know if its even a sport


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    #544
    sligobhoy67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭sligobhoy67


    Knife-WREEENCH wrote: »
    Boxing.
    Because most boxers are either extremely arrogant or downright thick. (In some cases, both)

    thats funny - because I thought that that comment was extremely arrogant, downright thick and more than anything ignorant! :D


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    #545
    sligobhoy67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭sligobhoy67


    Gatling wrote: »
    UFC is the best fight sport on the planet ,
    knackers in a cage ,there extremley talented athlethes,
    its proven to be safer than boxing,

    ban boxing actuly its unsafe ,8 rounds of being punched in the head yeah how entertaining

    *cough*completebull*****cough*


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    #546
    Creeping-Death
    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭Creeping-Death


    Knife-WREEENCH wrote: »
    Boxing.
    Because most boxers are either extremely arrogant or downright thick. (In some cases, both)
    Arrogance is just a play for the cameras, generates hype about the fight, goes with the territory of any combat sport. Even a thicko should be able to see that


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    #547
    sligobhoy67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭sligobhoy67


    Creeping-Death wrote: »
    Arrogance is just a play for the cameras, generates hype about the fight, goes with the territory of any combat sport. Even a thicko should be able to see that

    correct, it is rare that you will find a sport where the opponents have so much respect for each other AND the officials.

    Especially when you look at the amatuer code where the aim it the "hit to score" and opposed to "hit to hurt" it is possibly the most amazing sport for teenage boys to getting involved with in a world where people are disillusioned with the percieved lack of respect that our "youth" show these days.


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    #548
    Fromvert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭Fromvert


    The Orb wrote: »
    UFC, not a sport, televised street brawling, awful, awful, awful.

    The fact that you call it UFC shows you have no idea what your talking about. The sport is called MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). So your statement is right but not the way you thought it was. The UFC is a company. By saying you would ban UFC is like saying I would ban the Premier League if I wanted to ban football. I love when people try to talk about a sport they have no idea about ****ing hilarious.

    I wouldnt ban a sport but I would bring back topless darts. Now there's a sport everyone can enjoy.:D


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    #549
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    GAA


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    #550
    cruiser178
    Registered Users Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    tiddly winks,i think tiddly winks should be banned...


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    #551
    Maddison
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Maddison


    Cricket sucks balls, god its like watching a blank wall:mad:


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    #552
    Highsider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Highsider


    Gaelic football. Game for savages of all sorts


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    #553
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,518 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Necrothread athletics should be banned.


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    #554
    flas
    Registered Users Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭flas


    gaelic football...and with good reason too... its the only sport i was ever seriously abused in...i mean it is sick the small mindedness of a lot of the people involved in this sport. played for our local gaa team for years and years,we were the townie team in our county and everywhere we went we would have half a parish at the games shouting terrible stuff at us,calling us nothing but knackers and scumbags and that we should stick to playing that "tan" sport we play in the town!!!this is inspite of the fact the majority of the team have only ever played gaa and a good crowd of the team are from well off families...this had been happening from under14 and it would not be just a bit of banter,it would be vile abuse. i have played football(soccer) at a high level and played all over the country from the worst housing estates to plush grounds and have not once been abused the way we were abused at gaa games. and people think it makes you more irish or more patriotic to part take in these sports,ha..


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    #555
    Local-womanizer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    flas wrote: »
    gaelic football...and with good reason too... its the only sport i was ever seriously abused in...i mean it is sick the small mindedness of a lot of the people involved in this sport. played for our local gaa team for years and years,we were the townie team in our county and everywhere we went we would have half a parish at the games shouting terrible stuff at us,calling us nothing but knackers and scumbags and that we should stick to playing that "tan" sport we play in the town!!!this is inspite of the fact the majority of the team have only ever played gaa and a good crowd of the team are from well off families...this had been happening from under14 and it would not be just a bit of banter,it would be vile abuse. i have played football(soccer) at a high level and played all over the country from the worst housing estates to plush grounds and have not once been abused the way we were abused at gaa games. and people think it makes you more irish or more patriotic to part take in these sports,ha..

    Why not just ban the people shouting abuse:confused:


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    #556
    RVN10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭RVN10


    Defintely i'd have to say GAA too , man how I hate that sport .


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    #557
    Firetrap
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    Gaelic football. Nowt but men in skimpy shorts baytin' lumps out of each other.


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    #558
    Mmcd
    Registered Users Posts: 805 ✭✭✭Mmcd


    sligobhoy67 wrote: »
    *cough*completebull*****cough*
    Everything he just said there is proven fact!


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    #559
    Thundercats Ho
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    I wouldnt ban any sport.
    I hate cricket, tennis, showjumping, some others i cant think of right now, but i wouldnt ban them.

    Wait now, i would. UFC. disgraceful attempt of a sport.


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    #560
    Helix
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    gaelic football


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    #561
    Fromvert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭Fromvert


    Thundercats Ho wrote: »
    I wouldnt ban any sport.
    I hate cricket, tennis, showjumping, some others i cant think of right now, but i wouldnt ban them.

    Wait now, i would. UFC. disgraceful attempt of a sport.

    Thats because its not a sport, its a company. MMA is the sport your after. Obviously know nothing about the sport either by the looks of it.


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    #562
    Mmcd
    Registered Users Posts: 805 ✭✭✭Mmcd


    Thundercats Ho wrote: »
    I wouldnt ban any sport.
    I hate cricket, tennis, showjumping, some others i cant think of right now, but i wouldnt ban them.

    Wait now, i would. UFC. disgraceful attempt of a sport.
    I doubt you have watched to many UFC matches. MMA or UFC as you understand it is probably sport as its rawest form. If I had to give a description of sport I would show someone a UFC match. Sport involves skill and physical ability. Alot of sports barely test one of them but MMA requires both.


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    #563
    sligobhoy67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭sligobhoy67


    Mmcd wrote: »
    Everything he just said there is proven fact!

    solid comeback, intelligent retort - probably too much "ground and pound"!!


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    #564
    Fromvert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭Fromvert


    sligobhoy67 wrote: »
    solid comeback, intelligent retort - probably too much "ground and pound"!!

    What does ''ground and pound'' do?


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    #565
    Horsefumbler
    Registered Users Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭Horsefumbler


    Nightwish wrote: »
    Football. I cannot see how it is entertaining. I cannot appreciate the overpaid idiots that seem to make up a good proportion of the premiership. Put any of them on a GAA pitch and they'd be dead by half time.
    No they wouldn't coz they are professional sportsmen not amateurs ;)

    I'd say Gaa. just don't like it. Think it's just a clumsy knock off of soccer. The rules on tackling are obscure, refs never call travelling, easier to score than soccer, less variation in build up to scores... 15 goalies on a pitch! It's faster paced I'll say that. but it's fast paced hoofing at the end of the day.

    And I hate the way people go on about it be better because its a more physical game. Ya dont go to a match to watch people fight, ya wanna see the sport played. If ya wanna watch a fight then watch boxing or whatever. I know there's a lot of fairies in soccer but still that such a stoopid point about the physical aspect of gaa

    And on another note ya know we'd have more soccer players if less were playing this game, might have a better international squad.


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    #566
    peanuthead
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    MooseJam wrote: »
    If you could ban one sport

    boxing


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    #567
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Baseball & Cricket. Waaay too boring. Any sport really where spectators can have a nap mid way through and not miss anything important.


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    #568
    dreilly1990
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    cricket because it is dull and boring


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    #569
    T-K-O
    Registered Users Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭T-K-O


    Cricket. It's not even a sport. Anyone for tea ? :rolleyes:


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    #570
    CHD
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,956 ✭✭✭CHD


    70% of sports in the Olympics. Throwing a lump of metal around a field and running around in circles isn't a sport ffs.


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    #571
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    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

    The garrison game, by an Irish mile. Then, maybe then, we could go into an Irish pub and have a quiet pint and a decent chat with friends and neighbours without that noise blaring on the TV in the background. The rarity of such a simple pleasure in Ireland in 2009 is currently despairing and becoming depressing the longer this trend continues.


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