Undying Dreams

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I think it's funny how mad people get over sports.

Vlad_Type_S

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Cumtowel.

rockstar143

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Yes sir, you rang?

CLtotheTL32

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rockstar143

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Yumcha

Morning all.

Majofo

I want the spurs to spank that ass..

Majofo

we're voting.. 2 votes for cumtowel, 0 votes for Jayyyyy

Yumcha

Well, FWIW, I was quite disappointed with my favorite hockey team getting ousted yesterday.

Hard to put a finger on it...and I know these athletes are paid bazillions to play a GAME...and do they really care THAT much about the average joe fan? Probably not. Still, the team represents an idea...and coming from Chicago, it's for me, a community reaction, that is personal and kinda visceral.

It is a tie to a personal identity...I think back to watching games with my Dad. To seeing how he cared about it. Again, something very...abstract, I suppose.

Anyhow, that's my attempt to be philosophical on a Monday morning.

rockstar143

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Yumcha

Yessir...they are my team. Grew up rooting for them and lived through their "dark years" in the late 90s.

rockstar143

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rockstar143

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Hmmm...interesting, black guys rarely play hockey!

Undying Dreams

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Hahaha.

Vlad_Type_S

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That's why they didn't win, yo. Black people can't ice skate and it's too cold!

Majofo

Majofo

Majofo

That, and scared ice will melt, can't swim.

Yumcha

Cuz, it's expensive. The wife and I were talking about letting Little Cha play hockey as he gets older and well, it's freaking expensive (equipment).

Majofo

Indeed.. At least dentist visit to replace teeth and mend deep gashes are free..

Just wait til we call your name, eh..

Yumcha

But, there are a few s playing hockey.

Ray Emery, P.K. Subban, Evander Kane, Joel Ward, Wayne Simmonds, Chris Stewart...I can keep going. There are a few.

Majofo

All my hombres in canuckistan played hockey when they were young. When I visited, we'd play inline skate hockey on the street during off-season, "car!", then hit the ice during the season. I skate like shit so I just played goalie. We all transitioned to golf.

Yumcha

Vlad_Type_S

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They probably grew up in the suburbs.

Yumcha

Street hockey is common around here. Depends on the neighborhood but with 2 of my best friends also having kids, I can see Little Cha and those guys playing some pick up games here and there for fun.

rockstar143

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Hockey is too brutal...I'd rather play rugby!

Yumcha

I think Rugby is worse...at least in hockey, you're relatively padded and protected.

Yumcha

Yup...rich -types. Not the ones growing up in the projects.

rockstar143

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I was being Dr. Sarcasm.
Honestly, I grew up playing NO team sports. Rollerblading and biking FTW...

Vlad_Type_S

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I wanted to play football in HS but my mommy didn't sign the waiver so I joined ROTC instead and became the best at that.

rockstar143

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I could have done that...my HS had a bangin JROTC program and no football team. Too bad I had a problem with Authority.

Majofo

I played football in Jr High and HS, varsity lettered. I also played Rugby in HS and after HS on my buddies league. The worst injury I saw in football was my brosef getting his plant foot stuck (either a hole they didn't know about or the soil sank at the moment he stepped in it), he was then subsequently tackled and he suffered a horrific compound fracture. He was on the radio for the next few days while in the hospital. He healed 100% but didn't play again, too interested in skating anyways. I broke fingers, bruised ribs, luckily no concussions. I think I'd get my kid into la crosse, water polo, so they're more valuable to ivy league schools.

Also Judo, BJJ, TKD, HKD, Boxing, Eskrima, Kendo, Fencing

Vlad_Type_S

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I have that same problem which is why after 4 years I wanted nothing to do with the military.

Yumcha

Join the club. Between playing piano and doing homework, WTF was team sports?

Personal time was bike-rides and playing my Nintendo.

swoosh

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played Soccer for the school and college...played cricket for school, college and state....played rugby in school (not for school)....played basketball just with friends....played Hockey (not ice hockey but the one with balls ) for school...played ping pong and badminton for college....

jack of all, master of none....never studied

Undying Dreams

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Teh :ghey: life

CLtotheTL32

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I played tennis when I was young and started bowling when I moved to NC. I haven't bowled in a year and I miss it

swoosh

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btw Maj,

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swoosh

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ohh the difference made by moving 1 alphabet

Undying Dreams

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Fine, I'll share.

First year of sports, soccer, 4 years old. Wasn't for me.

Next year, t-ball. Then from there I played baseball till I think 12 years old...

Somewhere in between I tried a year of flag football. Wasn't for me either.