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I think tennis is a "fit" sport, and Americans are too fat to like it or play it. With football, a 300 lbs person can still cheer for his/her team and drink bear and eat wings and sit at the couch or go to the game and be totally okay. There are many reasons/excuses why he/she is not participating in the sport (football, etc), because lack of enough friends/participants, and lack of courts/space. The samething can be said about baseball, hockey, and maybe even basketball. It's okay to watch and not participate.
You CANNOT say the samething about tennis. When was the last time you saw a 300 lbs person watching tennis at a Grand Slam Final? You see plenty of those at Super Bowl.
Simply put, Americans are not fit enough to like tennis.
Tennis is a women's sport. Perhaps that is why American men do not hold the sport in favor. When I was a kid, if you played tennis and you were male, you might as well have worn a dress.
Now GOLF, on the other hand, it a sport in which you can drink, smoke, BS with your buddies, and get exercise at the same time. That is the ideal sport. Besides, you don't have to wear a dress when you play it.
Tennis is a women's sport. Perhaps that is why American men do not hold the sport in favor. When I was a kid, if you played tennis and you were male, you might as well have worn a dress.
Now GOLF, on the other hand, it a sport in which you can drink, smoke, BS with your buddies, and get exercise at the same time. That is the ideal sport. Besides, you don't have to wear a dress when you play it.
Does any of the golf players, some in their 50s, looks girly like this?
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Originally Posted by hawkeye2009
Tennis is a women's sport. Perhaps that is why American men do not hold the sport in favor. When I was a kid, if you played tennis and you were male, you might as well have worn a dress.
Now GOLF, on the other hand, it a sport in which you can drink, smoke, BS with your buddies, and get exercise at the same time. That is the ideal sport. Besides, you don't have to wear a dress when you play it.
Er, okay, first I've heard of this.
I'd like to see you arm wrestle Nadal. Who's wearing the dress now?
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American football - a sport that makes people idiots (both players, when they concuss themselves to oblivions, and fans who would follow such a dull sport).
Now Australian Rules Football. That is a sport for kings! And no need to wear tights that women wear to the gym, or silly looking goofy helmets!
American football - a sport that makes people idiots (both players, when they concuss themselves to oblivions, and fans who would follow such a dull sport).
Now Australian Rules Football. That is a sport for kings! And no need to wear tights that women wear to the gym, or silly looking goofy helmets!
In American Football you tackle from a low base, driving your shoulder on a plane running through or just underneath the bottom of the rib cage up out of the shoulder blade - to stop the ball carriers momentum dead and drive him backwards. Try that on a rugby field without padding and see what happens. You'd be thrown off for dangerous play and the guys getting blasted in the ribs wouldn't last long either. The padding is necessary in the NFL, because the fundamentals (and explosiveness) of the game demand it. There is a reason why there are so many injuries and concussions in the NFL, and why player safety has become a massive issue recently despite the padding - and your a fool if you think it's because the players are soft/wimps etc.
In American Football you tackle from a low base, driving your shoulder on a plane running through or just underneath the bottom of the rib cage up out of the shoulder blade - to stop the ball carriers momentum dead and drive him backwards. Try that on a rugby field without padding and see what happens. You'd be thrown off for dangerous play and the guys getting blasted in the ribs wouldn't last long either. The padding is necessary in the NFL, because the fundamentals (and explosiveness) of the game demand it. There is a reason why there are so many injuries and concussions in the NFL, and why player safety has become a massive issue recently despite the padding - and your a fool if you think it's because the players are soft/wimps etc.
Why can't Ole Miss ever win more games then it loses?
Don't blame Masoli.
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