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    Dumbing Down of Sports

    I was talking to a couple of soccer players today and they were telling me how they are sick of these rules in soccer and other sports that are turning what were once men's games into girls games. At the rate things are going the only real men's games we'll have left are rugby and lacrosse. Even boxing has some new and stupid rules that dumb the game down.
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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    Judging by the jocks I've known in the past, I can't see how sports can possibly get any dumber than they already are.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Judging by the jocks I've known in the past, I can't see how sports can possibly get any dumber than they already are.
    "He was not only top notch as an athlete but a top notch student too. Straight C's in every subject!"

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    People watch a game they want to see a player allowed to bump another player or to make an aggressive move without a penalty. people want to be able to see a player interact with the crowd, toss them a ball, give them an autograph , etc. This politically correct dumbing down is turning a men's game into a girls game.
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    People watch a game they want to see a player allowed to bump another player or to make an aggressive move without a penalty. people want to be able to see a player interact with the crowd, toss them a ball, give them an autograph , etc. This politically correct dumbing down is turning a men's game into a girls game.
    This has always been the case with sports. Fans can be crybaby little girls. Nothing new, just the faces.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Judging by the jocks I've known in the past, I can't see how sports can possibly get any dumber than they already are.
    exactly

    Oxymoronic concept right there

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    Hell yeah, add some knives to the end of the sticks and slash some throats to make it a mans game. As far as political correctness is concerned, it has become part of everything else in life sadly. Why should sports be exempt?

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    And then there's this...

    Football player dies from head injury sustained during game

    Freak accident? Illegal hit? Pre-existing condition? Darwin award candidate?
    Last edited by W1GUH; 10-17-2011 at 11:31 AM.
    If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.

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