Come on, boyz and girlz, it's time to fess up. Are you really just an interested dork, or are you interested because you once played?

USU78 Wrote:Come on, boyz and girlz, it's time to fess up. Are you really just an interested dork, or are you interested because you once played?

Yes, played Football at Boise State.....

I played for Chaffee Hall, A Wing!!!!!

At what level?

WAC_FAN Wrote:At what level?

Good question. I intended that a positive responder played a sponsored (not club or intramural) sport.

Me? JV FB @ USU before an extended Mormon vacation, followed by dorkitude.

How come you didn't include baseball??

nvspuds Wrote:How come you didn't include baseball??

Same reason I didn't include rowing.

You got somethng against baseball, mister..???

nvspuds Wrote:You got somethng against baseball, mister..???

Yeah, I know, I know, there's:

Quote:People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

but there's also:

Quote:I enjoy comparing baseball and football:

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.
Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park.  The baseball park!
Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

In football you wear a helmet.
In baseball you wear a cap.

Football is concerned with downs - what down is it?
Baseball is concerned with ups - who's up?

In football you receive a penalty.
In baseball you make an error.

In football the specialist comes in to kick.
In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.

Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness.
Baseball has the sacrifice.

Football is played in any kind of weather: rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog...
In baseball, if it rains, we don't go out to play.

Baseball has the seventh inning stretch.
Football has the two minute warning.

Baseball has no time limit: we don't know when it's gonna end - might have extra innings.
Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we've got to go to sudden death.

In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling; emotions may run high or low, but there's not too much unpleasantness.
In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you're capable of taking the life of a fellow human being.

And finally, the objectives of the two games are completely different:

In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

which proves, indisputably that baseball is a sissy game.

Football is the answer.

What was the question?

I like baseball because it's the only sport where no one shakes hands with their opponents after the game..All this kum bay ya, namby pamby, let's be friends crap has no place on a ball field..Football is essentially a vicious exercise in land acquisition..Baseball is beautiful, man..

nvspuds Wrote:I like baseball because it's the only sport where no one shakes hands with their opponents after the game..All this kum bay ya, namby pamby, let's be friends crap has no place on a ball field..Football is essentially a vicious exercise in land acquisition..Baseball is beautiful, man..

I will say this about baseball:
It is better than Hockey!!!!

I was a first string first Tenor for the Louisiana Tech chamber singers and concert choir...so yes, I'm an interested internet dork. :saber:

Half a season of basketball in the 5th grade does that count?

Quote: Good question. I intended that a positive responder played a sponsored (not club or intramural) sport.

In that case, I am proud to say that I have played athletics at every level--except for college and pro. :)