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I love hockey! A little rock flying around at top speed is GREAT reason for pads and helmets!Canuckster1127 wrote:I guess this would be a bad time then to suggest that you suit up your Rugby and Football players and put them on a pair of skates and see how they do against my boys ....FFC wrote:Anyway, should we be really be advocating which is the more violent or prone to cause damage, and praising it because of this?
Canuckster1127 wrote:I guess this would be a bad time then to suggest that you suit up your Rugby and Football players and put them on a pair of skates and see how they do against my boys ........
).touche'Canuckster1127 wrote:I guess this would be a bad time then to suggest that you suit up your Rugby and Football players and put them on a pair of skates and see how they do against my boys ........FFC wrote:Anyway, should we be really be advocating which is the more violent or prone to cause damage, and praising it because of this?
Sports: It's when grown men behave like little children and are proud of it. (come to think of it, it's like that pretty much with everything elsezoegirl wrote:wow, the testosterone levels around here have skyrocketed!!!!
).I'm sorry I didn't hear what you said. I was grunting over here like a wild boar.Byblos wrote:Sports: It's when grown men behave like little children and are proud of it. (come to think of it, it's like that pretty much with everything elsezoegirl wrote:wow, the testosterone levels around here have skyrocketed!!!!
As kids...we never wore pads and helmets when playing Am. football...yet we survived. *gasp*Byblos wrote:Sports: It's when grown men behave like little children and are proud of it. (come to think of it, it's like that pretty much with everything elsezoegirl wrote:wow, the testosterone levels around here have skyrocketed!!!!
Are you sure it wasn't some Europeanized version of an American sport? You know, like Rugby?BavarianWheels wrote:As kids...we never wore pads and helmets when playing Am. football...yet we survived. *gasp*
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It was definitely Am. football with a bit of rugby imbedded unknowingly...but we called it, excuse the term, "Smeer the Queer".Byblos wrote:Are you sure it wasn't some Europeanized version of an American sport? You know, like Rugby?BavarianWheels wrote:As kids...we never wore pads and helmets when playing Am. football...yet we survived. *gasp*
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Sounds like you got smeered quite a bit (shoulda taken the high road but couldn't help itBavarianWheels wrote:It was definitely Am. football with a bit of rugby imbedded unknowingly...but we called it, excuse the term, "Smeer the Queer".
, somebody stop me 
).Unlike the "big men of NFL", none of us needed battle gear to play the game.Byblos wrote:Sounds like you got smeered quite a bit (shoulda taken the high road but couldn't help itBavarianWheels wrote:It was definitely Am. football with a bit of rugby imbedded unknowingly...but we called it, excuse the term, "Smeer the Queer".
I was sure that something traumatic happened to account for his great distaste for the game.Byblos wrote:Sounds like you got smeered quite a bit (shoulda taken the high road but couldn't help itBavarianWheels wrote:It was definitely Am. football with a bit of rugby imbedded unknowingly...but we called it, excuse the term, "Smeer the Queer".
It's a great game! So are hot dogs, cheesesteaks, and New York pizza.Loved it as a kid...still "like" it, but only for the important game...and that only comes around once a year thankfully.FFC wrote:I was sure that something traumatic happened to account for his great distaste for the game.Byblos wrote:Sounds like you got smeered quite a bit (shoulda taken the high road but couldn't help itBavarianWheels wrote:It was definitely Am. football with a bit of rugby imbedded unknowingly...but we called it, excuse the term, "Smeer the Queer".
Which, thankfully, brings us back to my original post and my Super Bowl Champions NY Giants.BavarianWheels wrote:Loved it as a kid...still "like" it, but only for the important game...and that only comes around once a year thankfully.
Blue Wrecking Crew...Dodgers...Dodger Blue.Byblos wrote:Which, thankfully, brings us back to my original post and my Super Bowl Champions NY Giants.BavarianWheels wrote:Loved it as a kid...still "like" it, but only for the important game...and that only comes around once a year thankfully.
Big Blue rules!
