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re: What is the perfect sport?
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:12 am to QJenk
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:12 am to QJenk
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You prefer your sports to be so easy and simple a caveman can do it. I prefer my sports to be a little more challenging and complicated because it makes it more entertaining and fun.
What does my list have to do with personal preference or enjoyment factor?
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Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:13 am to NorthshoreTiger76
Football, basketball, baseball far from perfect sports. Too much can be decided by an official making good/bad call. Football also has half the team made up of fat people.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:14 am to BeaverPRO
To me a perfect sport is really something that an official has no control over the outcome. Give me a clock sport over a ref-controlled sport any day
My little brother was a world class athlete in a ref-driven sport, and countries would collude with refs to screw big time athletes out of direct elimination events. It would be like my team will drop this bout if your team will drop this one.
It made me very against those types of sports. So give me like the 400 meter run. Long enough to where the start won't kill you, but short enough it's over quickly
My little brother was a world class athlete in a ref-driven sport, and countries would collude with refs to screw big time athletes out of direct elimination events. It would be like my team will drop this bout if your team will drop this one.
It made me very against those types of sports. So give me like the 400 meter run. Long enough to where the start won't kill you, but short enough it's over quickly
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:17 am to Hester Carries
Lacrosse. It's soccer on a stick with a rubber baseball and the contact of hockey.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:18 am to More beer please
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Basketball to me shows more true athleticism than any other sport. I would be willing to bet more basketball players could crossover to a different sport than any other. The fluidity of the sport combines every aspect of what it means to be athletic.
Now rules/procedures and what not are a different story.
Why do the assholes have to slap hands after every free throw attempt? When did that bullshite start?
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:22 am to Hester Carries
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Unless the good ole days were in Naismith's gym, then i dont know which day im looking back to. Freethrows being that big of a part of a game are imperfect to me.
So teams should have no real deterrent for fouling?
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:25 am to Dr RC
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:25 am to Dr RC
Decathlon FTW.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:28 am to Dr RC
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So teams should have no real deterrent for fouling?
Listen, i understand why there are the rules that there are. But to me a rule is essentially a patch for a problem that the inventor of a sport didnt see to begin with. Which sports need the least deterrents for things that could bring the sport to a halt?
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:28 am to slackster
I'd love to say baseball but it is probably golf.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:34 am to Hester Carries
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Which sports need the least deterrents for things that could bring the sport to a halt?
I don't think there is a single major team sport that doesn't have some sort of stoppage when a foul occurs unless you want to count auto racing and even then wrecks essentially stop the action while they clear the track of debris.
I guess relay runners would keep going if a person went nuts and tackled one of the opposing runners but aside from that... I got nothing.
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 11:36 am
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:43 am to Hester Carries
I agree mostly. But the perfect sport is tennis. Very few rules and no judgement calls.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:46 am to QJenk
The NBA with no salary cap and kids who aren't retarded and stay in college to develop
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:46 am to Hester Carries
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I define the perfect sport as one where the objective is simple and intuitive, and the nature of the game is so logical that the sport doesn't require a ton of seemingly arbitrary rules to keep the game moving along.
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Golf-Hit the ball in the hole, count your strokes, dont touch it unless you hit it.
If you want to play golf correctly, there are a ton of arbitrary rules that you have to know. So much so that professionals have to have rules officials explain the rules to them all the time. I love golf, it's my favorite sport, but it would be more "perfect" if the rules were loosened a bit since most of them wouldn't change the outcome very often.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:49 am to LaBornNRaised
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But the perfect sport is tennis. Very few rules and no judgement calls.
I agree. I can't think of a sport that is as straightforward as tennis. Stand behind the line, hit the ball into the cross court box, and keep going until it goes beyond the boundary lines, into the net, or bounces twice.
The only thing that would keep the person who's never seen tennis before from picking it up within 2 minutes of watching a match is the 15, 30, 40 scoring system, but that's pretty easy to follow too.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:59 am to LaBornNRaised
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perfect sport is tennis. Very few rules and no judgement calls
Huh?
Maybe not for a pro with the advances in technology, but for everyone else, an in/out call is most certainly a judgment call.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 12:04 pm to The_Joker
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Lacrosse. It's soccer on a stick with a rubber baseball and the contact of hockey.
fastest game on two feet
Posted on 2/18/14 at 12:31 pm to TH03
Swimming or Track
Posted on 2/18/14 at 12:31 pm to Hester Carries
Rugby
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