shropshire 0 #1 August 14, 2009 Golf ... fucking golf is due to become an Olympic sport in 2016 ... yet another profession sports get's into the Olympics... Clicky (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #2 August 14, 2009 Take the number of people that play golf world-wide and multiply that by the amount of cash they spend on the game each year. Take the number of people that skydive world-wide and do the same. Which is bigger?quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scratch 0 #3 August 14, 2009 Fuck Golf.........7's Rugby is in there too. Just another place where we can humiliate you Pommy Bastards Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virgin-burner 1 #4 August 14, 2009 that, and take "spectator-friendliness" into account.. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SSHusky 0 #5 August 14, 2009 QuoteTake the number of people that play golf world-wide and multiply that by the amount of cash they spend on the game each year. Take the number of people that skydive world-wide and do the same. Which is bigger? Yeah but skydiving isn't a sport. All you do is fall straight down with someone stapped to your back. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #6 August 14, 2009 At least more people play that than curling.Personally, I'm waiting to see bog snorkeling added. "There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaVriK 0 #7 August 14, 2009 fuck golf...absolutely hands down the most boring game in the world to watch...~MaVriK~ "The Greatest Accomplishment in life is actually Living it" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #8 August 14, 2009 Quote Yeah but skydiving isn't a sport. . What, and Golf is ... Bwhaaaaaaa .. yeah right (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #9 August 14, 2009 Quote Just another place where we can humiliate you Pommy Bastards Right ...... game on (well in 2016). (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 221 #10 August 14, 2009 Quote Quote Just another place where we can humiliate you Pommy Bastards Right ...... game on (well in 2016). . . . is that in Mayan years?I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Halfpastniner 0 #11 August 14, 2009 Quotefuck golf...absolutely hands down the most boring game in the world to watch... I will watch golf before I watch baseball. But they both suck to watch.BASE 1384 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thrillstalker 0 #12 August 14, 2009 QuoteQuotefuck golf...absolutely hands down the most boring game in the world to watch... I will watch golf before I watch baseball. But they both suck to watch. +1"Never grow a wishbone, where your backbone ought to be." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #13 August 14, 2009 Quote Quote Quote Just another place where we can humiliate you Pommy Bastards Right ...... game on (well in 2016). . . . is that in Mayan years? I was thinking they might want to get it in the 2012 Olympics instead. It'll be the very last one, according to the Mayan Calendar. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #14 August 14, 2009 A hell of a lot of ordinary people golf, so it's not like it doesn't have proletarian appeal. But how many engage in rythmic gymnastics (you, know, the twirl the ribbon-on-a-stick thingie), or even like to watch others do it* - and that's an Olympic event. I'll never understand why. (*Example, not many people ski-jump, but it's cool to watch.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FreeflyChile 0 #15 August 14, 2009 Quote Quote Quote Quote Just another place where we can humiliate you Pommy Bastards Right ...... game on (well in 2016). . . . is that in Mayan years? I was thinking they might want to get it in the 2012 Olympics instead. It'll be the very last one, according to the Mayan Calendar. That's too bad, I was looking forward to (hopefully) Chicago getting the games in 2016! At this point I don't care what gets in - ballroom dancing is/was a sport in there, so whatever. My attitude is I'll watch/pay attention to the sports I like and ignore the rest. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #16 August 14, 2009 Quote A hell of a lot of ordinary people golf, so it's not like it doesn't have proletarian appeal. But how many engage in rythmic gymnastics (you, know, the twirl the ribbon-on-a-stick thingie), or even like to watch others do it* - and that's an Olympic event. I'll never understand why. (*Example, not many people ski-jump, but it's cool to watch.) Some sports, like ski jump, were put into the sport WAAAYYYY back in the day when the Olympics were far less about corporate sponsorship. They've stayed because they've become a tradition and there is a small industry built around them. Without the Olympics to to aspire to as a goal, would a lot of these sports even still exist? Rhythmic gymnastics, I blame China and other countries that go in for the wacky "circus" sports and even turn them into spectacle. Also, it's for the chicks, it gives them something to watch too. If you look at all of the sports that have been added lately, they are almost always tied into massive participation and marketing potential for sponsors. Just follow the money and it's easy to see why they're added.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #17 August 14, 2009 The Olympic 'sport' selection is really crap and needs to be realigned to (at least) the spirit of the original ethics ...... competitor amature status (no highly paid, football players, golfers, boxers etc....) (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #18 August 14, 2009 Quote The Olympic 'sport' selection is really crap and needs to be realigned to (at least) the spirit of the original ethics ...... competitor amature status (no highly paid, football players, golfers, boxers etc....) I agree, but I don't see it happening. Being about my age, I'm sure you remember when East Germany was an Olympic powerhouse for a while in the 1970s and 80s, well out of proportion to the size of its population or the strength of its economy. That was the beginning of the "Olympic amateurism is a fraud" debate coming to a head in public, because Eastern-bloc countries, clearly sponsoring their athletes into professionals in all but name, were gaining an unfair advantage over other countries, whose athletes were still restricted by the old, obsolete definition of "amateur." The other part of the same problem, which also came to a head in the 70s and 80s, is the practical reality that the amateurism rules and definitions were so archaic and broadly-restrictive that they simply did not realistically meet the practical needs of young adult athletes to make a living in modern society. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
