Sports [Archive] - THE TOLKIEN FORUM

munchkin

11-23-2002, 11:23 PM

This is a little place where you can talk about your favorite sports to watch and play. I like to play soccer and watch baseball. What are yours?

Asha'man

11-24-2002, 06:09 AM

No sports at all.....they bore me to no end. :rolleyes: I seem to be in a definite minority among males, though.

Ash

Talierin

11-24-2002, 06:17 AM

I watch Football (american), Cycling (Go Lance!), and the Olympics. Don't play any sports though except I do archery every once in awhile.

Ponte

11-24-2002, 11:39 AM

Here's (http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6096)a simliar thread, my favourite sport is football(the heffa thing, not the american stuff)
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Glamdring

11-26-2002, 03:18 AM

I used to play baseball, and basketball, but now mostly play tennis.

Courtney

11-26-2002, 03:39 AM

I finally figured out the rules for football... after going to every home football game for the past 4 years...and I actually like it... I used to think it was really boring , but that was just because I didn't understand it.:)

Frodorocks

12-11-2002, 09:49 PM

Rock climbing and kickboxing!:D I really want to learn how to fence. I also like watch and doing extreme sports of almost any kind.:)

Glamdring

12-11-2002, 11:25 PM

fencing would be awesome. I think you have to be relly rich though.

Talierin

12-12-2002, 12:09 AM

I took fencing for three weeks at a rec center (try looking at those for lessons)... but I quit cause I didn't like my teacher much....

It's fun, but yeah, get a teacher that you like if you're going to take it.

Wolfshead

12-14-2002, 01:54 AM

I like football (this would be the original version, non-american) and rugby, mostly. Although I'm pretty good at badminton as well. Quite a few sports I'm reasonably good at, only a few I really suck at.

Incidentally, I played squash for the first time today...

Isilme

12-14-2002, 11:09 PM

Originally posted by Frodorocks
Rock climbing and kickboxing!:D I really want to learn how to fence. I also like watch and doing extreme sports of almost any kind.:)
Me TOO!!

I also like watching Hockey, and my passion (I guess you could call it that) is SNOWBOARDING!:D

Kementari

12-14-2002, 11:16 PM

I used to play baseball and basetball, i also like skating and swimming. I love watching Football!! (not american, the rest of the world)

Ciryaher

12-14-2002, 11:58 PM

I don't like watching *any* sport except football (soccer), but I like playing football (american and soccer), baseball, archery, paintball (if you think it's not a sport, you haven't had to run screaming for your life before), ice and roller skating, and various PE sports involving balls being hurtled at you at incredible velocities :D

Wolfshead

12-15-2002, 11:08 AM

Originally posted by Frodorocks
I really want to learn how to fence
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that. I'm gonna learn to fence someday, but unfortunately, there's nowhere around here to do it. Maybe when I go to uni, or not. I doubt I'd be able to afford it then...

Eliot

12-16-2002, 07:40 PM

Football (American) is my favorite sport. I'm still learning a lot about it, but it's pretty cool.

I don't like Baseball because nothing really exciting happens,
I don't like Basketball because nothing really exciting happens,
I don't like Soccer because nothing really exciting happens,
I don't like Hockey because it's a really long game (it can be exciting, but it's pretty long).
Any other sport on this planet is stupid because it has nothing to do with Football.

Wolfshead

12-16-2002, 08:14 PM

I like football (soccer) and basketball out of your list there - Interesting fact. Basketball was not invented in the USA, but Canada, or so my Maxim advent calender told me a couple of days ago :p.

And Eliot, you realise that by using Eowyn as your av, new members will inevitably get your gender wrong? Unless of course it is me that has been fooled by the previous Aragorn av? :rolleyes:

Ciryaher

12-16-2002, 08:50 PM

Nothing exciting happens in soccer?!?! You've obviously never had the rush of screaming "GOOOOOOAL!!" at 430am (because that's how early the games come on if you want to see them live in the World Cup ;)) World Cup soccer has got to be the most exciting sport ever! You can feel the energy of the crowd through the TV...really awesome :)

PS.....

GO DEUTSCHLAND!!!! (2006, here we come!)

Strangely, I never root for an American team...not even in the Olympics. Weird...

Frodorocks

12-16-2002, 09:20 PM

Street hockey is fun. I'd like to do paintball, but I've never done it before.

munchkin

12-16-2002, 09:31 PM

umm, CraigSmith, I think you are wrong. Basketball WAS invented in the US by a guy by the name of Dr. James Niamsmith(I know I spelled that wrong, but that was the best I could come up with) who used peach baskets nailed up 10 feet high, because thats how high the bleachers. I know I'm right.

Eliot

12-17-2002, 12:55 AM

CraigSmith, how many girls do you know with the name "Eliot"? Probably none. I'll still change my avatar. :D

Eliot

12-17-2002, 12:57 AM

Just so you know, I only had that avatar because I think Miranda Otto is H-O-T HOT!!! :D

Wolfshead

12-17-2002, 08:33 PM

Originally posted by munchkin
umm, CraigSmith, I think you are wrong. Basketball WAS invented in the US....... I know I'm right.
Ok, so you could be right about it being invented in the USA. I don't have any proof to contradict you on that. But this is what my Maxim advent calender says alongside a nice picture of a model...
15th December

On this day: Basketball is invented in 1891 by Canadian James Naismith. So the Americans can't claim credit for it, leaving them with just rounders with gloves on, and rugby with body armour.
So, it would appear to be a Canadian idea, due to the guy being Candadian. I would think the fact it might have been in America irrelavent.

Wolfshead

12-17-2002, 08:38 PM

Originally posted by Eliot
CraigSmith, how many girls do you know with the name "Eliot"? Probably none. I'll still change my avatar. :D
Well, it ain't definately a one-gender name, no offence meant. Someone could mis-interpret if you had a feminine avatar. But, it matters not now, you've changed it back to Aragorn. :)

munchkin

12-17-2002, 09:01 PM

Originally posted by CraigSmith
Ok, so you could be right about it being invented in the USA. I don't have any proof to contradict you on that. But this is what my Maxim advent calender says alongside a nice picture of a model...

So, it would appear to be a Canadian idea, due to the guy being Candadian. I would think the fact it might have been in America irrelavent.

Ok. Maybe this James guy was Canadian, but he was a gym teacher in the US, so he invented basketball in the US.

Éomond

12-18-2002, 12:00 AM

I love to watch (all American):

Football
College Football
Baseball
Basketball
Hockey (only the playoffs)

I play:
Football
Basketball
Baseball
Wrestling

I love sports! They are the best (besides God and Tolkien:D)

Lossengondiel

12-18-2002, 03:23 AM

hockey hockey hockey hockey hockey!!!!!

I am a hockey girl at heart. I remember playing street hockey with the older boys of my neighborhood when i was younger. I would also like to try paintball and rockclimbing (if thats considered a sport)