Would NFL players still be hilarious obese if they played more?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Asher

Weak, Ming.

The US has no concept of being strong fans. Hockey in Canada is far more of our culture than Football or Baseball in American culture.

You live on the worlds biggest friggin' ice cube, so what else are you going to do, watch professional ice fishing on TV or club baby seals?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Asher

It's only a second rate sport in second rate countries with second rate people who can't keep up with the game.

Or don't spend half their waking lives on an ice sheet. After the ice ages ended, we were smart enough to move to the part where the ice was gone. What does that say about our poor, backward neighbors up north?

The only reason it's not the most popular sport worldwide is it's hard to play the sport in many climates, and it's expensive to partake in as well.

Yeah - if you're not up to your ass in snow all day, it's hard to build a building to make fake ice and keep it cold so a few morons can skate around inside a little fence and slap a little piece of frozen rubber. People who live in other climates realize that unless you've got nothing but snow and ice from horizon to horizon, that's one of the stupidest things you could every try to get a group of people to do.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Asher
And why is it surprising that beach volleyball does well in the US?

Americans are collectively so dumb their idea of sport is either men in spandex (latent homosexuality) or women in bikinis (usually to offset their guilt from enjoying men in spandex).

WWE, beach volleyball, etc...all are more popular than hockey in the USA. This is not a condemnation for hockey, it's a condemnation for Americans.

I'm not a sports fan by any means, but the thing about hockey is, it's impossible to tell where the damned puck is at any given time. It's a tiny black dot against a huge white field that's buzzing with distracting brightly colored uniforms skating around at high speeds (who often obscure the puck with their bodies/sticks). You can sort of guess where the puck might be judging by where the men are concentrated together/ramming each other into the walls, but the method isn't foolproof. Sometimes they're just ramming each other to be jerks, it seems. And usually by the time your brain registers a wall-ram, the puck has already shot a good distance away.

This is aggravated by the aforementioned high speed of the game. With football, you can watch the guy running toward the end zone and you think he's gonna make it, he's gonna make, oh no, he-wait, the ball was recovered and-touchdown! It's tense because you can keep clear track of what's going on as it's going on, which makes it possible to become emotionally engaged in the game. Watching a game of NHL hockey is like watching a tennis match, only you don't know which brightly colored blur is the "ball," so you're stuck waggling your head back and forth like a cat watching a fly.

If you're lucky, you might see a goal scored, provided you successfully compensate for hockey's Heisenberg principle--and even then, all you see is a player whizzing towards the net, followed by screaming from the guys at that end who can see if it went in. It's no doubt thrilling to play, but as a spectator sport it sucks. The only good part is laughing/wincing as the players beat the crap out of each other.

[Ming]

yeah... a fake sport... they encourage and don't really stop fighting. They think that if they stop fighting, they might lose some of their fans. I guess nobody watches the game, just the fighting. It's really sad that a sport needs to stop the game and have fist fights to make it interesting... says a lot about the sport.

[SlowwHand]

Elok, American television has integrated video techiques to help a viewer keep up with the puck. It's some better than it used to be.

[TCO]

I've played it and it is way more fun to play then watch. That said, all sports are.

[Elok]

Huh. I haven't seen a game in years. I once read about a digitally added "comet trail" imposed on the puck by Fox, but the next game my brother watched on Fox had nothing of the sort. Thing is, what happens to the guys who are sitting there watching it from the bleachers? They've got one perspective and no little helpers like that.

EDIT for clarity.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


Horse

****

I run an 18 minute 5k

There's not a single person in the world who weighs over 300 pounds who can do that. I guarantee you.

not you runny mcsprint pants

[Asher]

Originally posted by Elok
I'm not a sports fan by any means, but the thing about hockey is, it's impossible to tell where the damned puck is at any given time.

...

This is aggravated by the aforementioned high speed of the game.

As I said, Americans are clearly inferior. They do not have the same basic abilities as Canadians do to watch a high-speed game with lots of small details. Americans like things big and slow, like their cars.

[MRT144]

clearly inferior based on their tastes in sports and cars? are you some kind of mouth breathing idiot?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Ming
yeah... a fake sport... they encourage and don't really stop fighting. They think that if they stop fighting, they might lose some of their fans. I guess nobody watches the game, just the fighting. It's really sad that a sport needs to stop the game and have fist fights to make it interesting... says a lot about the sport.

Huh?

Fighting is an integral part of the game. If you really watched hockey you'd know why. Hockey is a lot more psychological than American simpletons want to see. A good fight can spur a losing team on to a great win. This happens regularly. It gets the adrenalin pumping and supercharges the game after.

There was actually an academic study on this recently that backed it up.

It has nothing to do with making the game interesting or losing fans (you'll find most hockey fans are not interested in wrestling or boxing, for instance), it's just a dynamic to the game that makes it what it is. If Americans weren't such pussies who get their panties in a twist with fighting (most players congratulate eachother after a good fight, BTW) and then virtually die if a nipple is shown, they'd see why.

[SlowwHand]

Yes, Asher. Like Camaros and Corvettes and Mustangs compared to...what is it Canadians have? Dog sleds?

[Asher]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Elok, American television has integrated video techiques to help a viewer keep up with the puck. It's some better than it used to be.

Fox's "glowing puck" is legendary up here. If you ever want to discuss the stupidity of Americans, Canadians just need to say "glowing puck".

See, Americans are dumb enough that they always think they have to see the puck to know where it is. Canadians are smart enough, and perceptive enough, to recognize where the puck is if it's not visible based on the movement and positioning of the players. It's very easy to keep track of the puck if you're at all perceptive, and I don't mean having perfect vision -- just perception of how people move and react.

[Asher]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Yes, Asher. Like Camaros and Corvettes and Mustangs compared to...what is it Canadians have? Dog sleds?

When you were building Camaros, we were building the first fighter jets to go mach 3.

[Asher]

Originally posted by MRT144
clearly inferior based on their tastes in sports and cars? are you some kind of mouth breathing idiot?

No no, those are just more examples that illustrate American culture.

They like things big (breasts, butts, cars) and slow (Football, Baseball). It's because they are generally biologically inferior with slow minds and lacking perception skills.