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8 Jan 08
Look what I stumbled on while surfing MySpace videos! Thought you might like this.
Cheers,
Roselyn
21 Jan 08
Subject: What sucks worse than sports?
Answer: Sports fans.I found your website in a google search after I wrote an article about how much I hate sports fans and just wanted to let you know I think your site rules.
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Kobra
23 Jan 08
I love this site! I have never liked watching sports and neither do most of my friends! At our house we're planning an anti-superbowl party again this year. We do it every year. Usually we just have a few beers and wine coolers but this year we're going all out and actually doing some planning! If you're having an anti-superbowl party, these sites have some ideas and suggestions you might like.
http://busycooks.about.com/cs/seasonalcooking/a/AntiSuperbparty.htm
http://www.celebrations.com/partyidea/anti-superbowl-party
http://pages.prodigy.net/jchrist/Party.html
http://www.saneasylum.com/articles/379
http://www.thisisby.us/index.php/content/rbdweasel__s_2008_anti_superbowl_spectacular
Keep the Faith, Brother!
Big Dave~Be Yourself. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.~
27 Jan 08
Hey, guess what, the BBC, which is funded by a compulsory licence fee, has decided to show the Superbowl in peak time in Britain. This was taken off commercial television due to a lack of interest, American football has very little of a following over here, but the BBC has decided to blow x millions of pounds on this borefest that goes on longer than War and Peace. Actually over here American footballers are regarded as freaks in steel helmets and the game is regarded as one of the most boring sports you can watch, although it has some strong competition from bowls and rugby union. A shame the BBC has to waste a fortune on a sports event that probably only a million people will watch when it cancelled a very popular martial arts tournament called Masters of Combat which had bigger audience figures and cost almost nothing to make as martial artists do their thing for no money unlike certain other sportsmen.
Glenn.
6 Feb 08
Hello, all. We just received an e-mail from noted Australian author, Pip Wilson, containing a link to his great blog page about competitive sports. I already added it to our Links page. Check it out:
http://wilsonsalmanac.blogspot.com/2008/01/competitive-sports-so-character.html
Ray
21 Feb 08
Subject: Bread and Circuses
Another view from Australia.
I have been known to watch Rugby Union and League games on the box, quite voluntarily. About two per season. I recognise the ability and I also recognise that many of the top players are above average in the brains department. It used to be said that Rugby Union players either moved pianos or played them. I've known two people who were close to the top grades in cricket and Australian Rules football, another man who represented Holland in an under 18 soccer team in the 1960s and you would rarely find better people about the place. They at least did not blather on endlessly about their games.
But there is a dark side.
Fact is I'm one of the thousands who were well and truly put off sport at primary school. If you play in the "left right out" position a few times you get the message. Multiply that by fifty or whatever and it's rubbed in very thoroughly. I do recall in my last years of high school our physical education classes were supposed to be gymnastics, something that I might have wanted to try. No. What we got was a period of running round the school oval tossing a Rugby ball back and forth. That was all the bl00dy instructor could think about. I don't think he lasted all that long. They wonder why many people give up sport as soon as they can. They must be brain dead. Result is that I have played three rounds of golf in the 41 years since I have left school. That is my entire sporting involvement since then.
I could be wrong, but if you get away from the larger cities in Australia and into the smaller communities there seems to be a lot less interest in televised football. None of the pro teams even purport to represent those communities. Residents of a town in central Queensland or even central New South Wales have no connection to some Sydney or Melbourne team.
Most of you will not recall a young woman who was an Australian Olympic swimming medallist 50 years ago. After the Rome Olympics she was back in training and following the black line as the coach ran along the pool edge shouting at her. At one point she thought - "Why am I putting up with this?" or something like it, swam to the end of the pool, got out, brushed past the apoplectic coach and did not get back into a pool for more than twenty years. Or so she wrote in a magazine article I read several years ago. The "aha" experience some call it.
Which reminds me of a colleague who is particularly tall. He grew up in a small country town where his father was a businessman. His father's brother ran a dairy farm close by and the colleague at about 9 years of age was told that in a year or so he'd be old enough to help uncle on the farm. So from the age of ten onward he got on a bicycle, rode out to the farm and helped with the milking. This went on for five years or so. Then one day one of his school teachers asked him to join the basketball team, practice after school. "I can't, I have to help with the milking." A few months later the teacher asked again. He gave the same reason. The teacher asked how much he was being paid. Of course he wasn't being paid. At all. He said "The scales fell from my eyes" He joined the basketball team.
So sport there was good for something.
Ken
22 Mar 08
Subject: Foul Play
Foul Play: What’s Wrong With Sport /
Joe Humphrys
Pub Date
3rd April 2008
ISBN
978-1840468-90-8
UK Price
£8.99
Can Price
$18.00
Format
B format
Extent
208pp
Binding
Paperback
Illustrations
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Subject
Sport
Rights
World ex. USA
- A shocking sermon for those who worship at the foot of sport – and a welcome break for anyone who loves to hate it!
- Timely publication with the build-up to the European Cup in June and Olympics in August.
- Thought-provoking look at how our belief in the value of sport is misplaced
An acerbic, passionate and witty crusade for a sporting ‘reformation’.
Common wisdom decrees that sport has an overwhelmingly positive influence on our civilisation. It’s good for your health, builds character, unites nations and generates peace and love and understanding across the globe …
Or so we are told by sporting evangelists who spread the word on the back – and now increasingly the front – pages of our newspapers. But are we being sold a lie? Foul Play shows how our belief in the value of sport is misplaced.
Tracing the history of organised game-playing, it argues that sport is a last refuge for sexism, racism, homophobia and animal cruelty. It cites neglected research in psychology, showing how playing sport tends to impinge negatively on your morals. And it asks why sports fans are so judgemental about what is, after all, only a game.
Foul Play is for anyone who believes that their head is not just for keepie-uppies.
Joe Humphreys is an Irish journalist and author. Having been a (highly-unsuccessful) racing tipster, he is currently a staff journalist with the Irish Times, writing news, features, and even occasionally sport. Born and raised in Ireland, he holds an MA in Political Philosophy, supports West Ham United, and lives currently in South Africa .
Authors live: South Africa
Hi - I thought you might be interested in the above book that we are about to publish. It isn't being published straightaway in the US although it will be available to import through Amazon.co.uk:
Foul Play: What's Wrong with Sport (Paperback) by Joe Humphrys (Author)
If you are interested in doing something with the book on your site do please let me know.
Many thanks
Andrew Furlow Marketing Director Icon Books
16 Apr 08
Subject: GREAT SITE
FINALLY A SITE TO SEPARATE THE MORONIC SPORTS FAN FROM THE REGULAR GUY. ONLY A MORON SPENDS $60.00 FOR A CRAPPY SEAT, PAYS $25.00 TO PARK, PAYS $6.00 FOR A HOTDOG, PAYS $8.50 FOR A BEER, ALL FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF WATCHING 100 ODD OVERPAID CRYBABIES CHASE A BALL,THROW A BALL,CATCH A BALL OR PLAY WITH THEIR BALLS OR SOMEONE ELSE’S.
AND WHAT’S UP WITH BASEBALL, A BUNCH OF GUYS SPITTING,CHEWING OR SUCKING ON ONE THING OR THE OTHER,WHILE WAITING FOR SOMEBODY TO POSSIBLY HIT A BALL. WHAT A BORING GAME.
MY REGARDS. Robert
16 Apr 08
Subject: I Hate Sport
I Hate Sport. It is horrible. At my high school, sport is second nature. In School, I believe sport should be voluntary. It wastes my time. Yesum, I would rather be inside a classroom doing Shakespeare or doing Science. Not out in the hot day on a dusty oval.
Sam
17 Apr 08
Subject: Goyankees11392
Goyankes11392 wrote that this site should be banned. If it was banned what the hell would this loser do all day? He obviously spends a lot of time on this site spewing his childish banter. I would like to give a probable description of this puke….. He’s probably 15 or 16 years old with severe Acne, just starting to grow pubes, and most likely sits around all day masturbating to football players ass pictures.
This turd, although he has’nt made a comment lately is probably in jail, or probably in the hospital having penis reconstruction surgery,,due to years of stroking it to pictures of baseball and basketball players.
So goyankees11392 if you read this I hope I didn’t interrupt your Homoerotic fantasies of the whole Yankees team gang-banging you in the locker room while your Dad takes pictures and your Mom makes them lunch.,,,for afterward………..you know,,butt slammin can get tiresome.
Good day…………………….I SAID GOOD DAY
Robert
17 Apr 08
Subject: Basketball
Someone please help……..Why in the hell is anyone impressed when a basketball player dunks a ball??? If I was 6 foot 7 inches I could easily do the same. I cannot for the life of me see why anyone would Watch that and think “WOW” .
Now when Spud Webb dunked the ball,,yeah, I could understand that being impressive. But as far as the Rest of these guys are concerned I just don’t get it.
Now as far as role models are concerned, where are they in Sports?
BASEBALL- kick dirt on umpire, Spit in umpires face, throw bat at opponent, fight with opponent, cheat whenever possible ie pinetar,shaving The ball, take performance enhancing drugs, lie in court, lie to the press, lie to the fans, fight with fans etc.
BASKETBALL-fight with opponent, fight with fans, strike umpire, coach throw chairs onto court etc., take asst. drugs
FOOTBALL-fight with fans, fight opponent, fondle opponents ass when possible, take asst drugs, etc.
Take that you Jock QUEERS!!!
Anyone who has a problem with me,,,,my address is 255 I HATE SPORTS DR. HAPPYTOWN NY 34511
Regards
Good day……………………I SAID GOOD DAY
Robert
17 Apr 08
Subject: WTF
Yeah I know,,,basketball has referees not umpires……………now put that in one hand and a pile of shit in the other And see who fuckin cares. I am sorry for the language……….but I know to reach some of you bonehead jocks I must sink to the Lower forms of communication……..to all others I apologize.
GOD………………..this is more fun than watching Joe Theisman’s Leg snap!!
Robert
17 Apr 08
Subject: Good Sports
Now don’t get me wrong there are good sports to watch simply for the visual aspect…………….Womens Gymnastics, Womens Tennis, Womens Volleyball, Womens Diving, Womens Track and Field……etc.
Any sport where a hot chick struts around is cool………….But any sport that includes Large Hairy Gonads….I will pass on that
But for you jocks that love that kind of stimulation…..hey that’s your business,,,but I can still comment on it, and denounce it.
And theres nothing you can do about it.
Good day>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I SAID GOOD DAY
Robert
11 May 08
Subject: Something Else
As a student sitting University entrance examinations I had the choice to not participate in sportlike actions. I chose not to, despite being a picture of lazy: an overweight chocoholic who does more than their fair share of work and exercise (EXERCISE! not sport. I walk the dog).
So, the other day I was angry to hear that a full day of my precious study time (this particular day, due to a timetable anomaly, has over 50% of my English study time in a week on it) was going to be given up for a WHOLE SCHOOL SPORTS DAY. On this day, thankfully, If I chose to go to school I would not have to do anything, instead I would sit out in the rain or heat wasting time. This is a far cry from Primary school sports where I'd be forced to run races and throw various things pointlessly into the air.
I always loathe these days because they separate the men from the boys, the women from the girls (read, the bullies from the outsiders, making it easier for them to find "fresh meat").
Im wagging that day. I have tonnes of homework.
PS: Will you ever put up any new articles?
Alex
24 May 08
Subject:
I hate sports... my mum always bugs me to get a healthy hobby. but sports will not help me when i am older. BUT MAYBE KNOLAGE IN ELECTRONICS WILL.
Dane
30 May 08
Subject: to Dane (letters 08)
Dane,
Maybe learning to spell “knowledge” correctly will help you too.
Two-Dog
4 June 08
Subject: some anti-athletic pride
Your site is a lot of fun and it's funny as well. Most importantly, it makes me realize I'm not alone.
Back in 1985, I worked for a college radio station. The sports announcers there were obnoxious and annoying as hell. During my newscast, I went off on an anti-sports tangent, saying that there are things going on in the world that are ten times more important than sports. Luckily, I didn't get in trouble for this, but I got a series of weird phone calls at my house, with people hanging up after I said hello.
Fast forward to 1997 where I got a job at a credit check company. My manager asked me if I saw the Eagles game last night. I told him I don't follow football. From then on out, I was treated as the odd bird in the place. Occassionally, I would get teased, and then get harassing emails criticizing my job performance. However, I dug in my heels, and refused to leave. Although I ignored them, I did take my anger out on the obnoxious, paranoid customers who requested background checks. And I did get my licks in at the boss during a couple confrontations. Eventually, I was fired, but I did collect unemployment. As far as I'm concerned, I won that battle. I will never let anyone intimidate me into leaving a job when I don't have to.
The next time something like this happens, I'll get a lawyer and file a sports-prejudice suit.
Ted
5 June 08
Subject: more anti-athletic pride
The funniest thing that happened at the credit check company I worked for occurred during the pollyanna of Christmas 2002. My manager was a stereotypical sports addict who was very hard-working, creating the most effective fantasy football leagues. Beneath a picture of George W Bush, a line of jock bobbleheads stood at attention, facing his desk. Him and the asswipe from sales formed a neat little jock alliance.
The festivities were held at a typical macho pub complete with pool table, dartboard, and blaring basketball on TV. He bragged if Allen Iverson ever got busted, he'd love to share a cell with him and play non-stop basketball in jail. The sperm from sales would say to me, "Hey, yo, finish your beer!"
Unfortunately, my manager was on my pollyanna list. I wound up getting him presents. I got him two calendars - that was it. When it was his turn to open them, I said the gift on your left is great for guys, and the gift on your right is great for girls. He gave me a confused look, and tore open the left one quickly.
It turned out to be an Eagles cheerleading calendar. "This is great, thanks a lot." he smiled. When he was challenged with the other gift, the one for girls, he started backing away. "I ain't openin' it." he said. Beads of sweat began to form on his forehead. Soon the entire office was chanting "Open it! Open it!" The macho manager, nervous and shaking, still refused. Finally, the owner of the company handed him my gift. She told him, "We don't have all night." He stuttered, "O-O-Okay." and slowly, carefully tore open the wrapping.
It turned out to be a kitten calendar, one kitty for each month.
Ted
17 June 08
Subject: Thank the hypothetical God Being!
I am so relieved to discover that I am not the only sane person among a planet full of couch ridden mindless zombies who derive their sense of self worth by vicariously living out the success of steroid addled monkeymen who make a living buy throwing, catching, or otherwise molesting some kind of ball. I am tired of others questioning my masculinity because I don't enjoy watching sweaty muscular men in tights playing with balls(the sexual double entendres in sports are endless). It seems to me that sports are possibly a way for borderline homosexuals to live out their secretly gay desires in a socially excepted venue. Because I have no homosexual tendencies myself, I am immune to the lure of sports fandom. I have nothing against gays, and I think it is time for all these sports fans to come out of the closet, and end this ludicrous charade.
Once again, this is the best site ever! I really hope that together we can find away to reach out to our youth and save them from the cult of sports zombies before it is to late!
A.G.
17 June 08
Subject: dear don,
you're the handsomest of the staff imho! i hate sports too and wrote about it here:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/lisa-mertins-sports-2069295-lakers-hate
come take a look and feel free to tell the haters :)
Lisa
27 June 08
Subject: Sports, politics, ect...
As we come closer and closer to elections, I am beginning to understand more and more why this country is in such a piss poor state. A long time ago some brilliant well intentioned old men put their powdered wigs together and came up with a plan. Our founding fathers were educated men who studied Greek Politics, Machiavellian principles, and basic human nature. They decided to take the best ideas and philosophies of the past and incorporate them in order to create the best possible government. They devised a government for the people and of the people, the idea being that the ruling body would actually work for and be chosen by those it governed. In theory people as a whole should be able to put forth a plethora of opposing ideas, discuss them rationally, and then implement the best of those idea's. Such an open forum should produce policy to benefit all of society without violating the rights and freedoms of the individuals that make up that society. In reality people are fucking morons, and the larger the group of people the more ridiculously moronic the people become. I call this phenomenon infanity. Nowhere is this phenomenon more prevalent than in the irrational arena of sports fandom. The mindless mob mentality displayed in sports infanity is the same infanity that dominates politics. People become irrationally invested in a political party the same way they invest there emotions in a sports team. Sense goes out the window, and people blindly support a political party and except the party line verbatim. Anyone who identifies themselves as either a republican or democrat is suffering from infanity. Now without going into why both the republicans and democrats are both equally full of corruption and entirely devoid of intelligence, I would like everyone to take a moment and dissect the nature of party affiliation. Does either party really represent all of your beliefs, or just one or two issues that you feel strongly about ? Is the opposing party really as bad as you make them out to be, can you really say that the people running for office or currently holding office are more evil than Hitler? Have you become so emotionally charged and invested in a party that you ignore the wrongs committed by your team and you can see nothing but evil in the opposing team? Guess what, you have infanity!
In light of everything I have just discussed, I would like to present a modest Proposal. A test should be created to gage an individual's ability to separate himself from his/her irrational emotions and think logically. Anyone who can pass the test will be allowed to vote in our elections. The test will be given to individuals 18 years of age and older on the 15 of April every year. If you fail you will be given another chance the next year and hopefully you have emotionally matured. However, some activities will constitute automatic failure and bar you for life from ever casting a ballot. Automatic failures will include but not be restricted to:
1. Anyone who has ever painted his/her face at a sporting event.(e.g. "Seinfeld" The Devils, episode)
2. Anyone who has ever slapped their wife in a fit of fan rage after watching their team drop the ball. (there are many good reasons to slap ones wife, the superbowl is not one of them)
3. Anyone who knows the names of more (prepare for oxymoron) sports-heroes than elected officials.
4. Anyone who's IQ is less than the combined final score of a soccer game.
5. Anyone who has ever thrown a punch to defend the honor of a sports team. (violence has it's place, and throwing a punch to defend ones beliefs is admirable, but fighting over which steroid addled (prepare for oxymoron) sports-hero throws a ball the best is never acceptable)
6. If you can spout off the dates and winners of every superbowl, but you are not quite sure when the Berlin wall came down or why it was up in the first place.
7...
I would like to hear anyone else's ideas for automatic failure. Surely there are many I have left out.
A.G.
3 Jul 08
Subject: Letter. HA!
I was reading your sports thing about sports in schools.
What utter and complete truth you speak.
in my school though, things are a bit different we have several different groups of popular.
We of course, have our jocks, but, at my school they're not popular! they're only popular with other jocks, and the plastic who hang around with them.
then theres the pretty populars, who are mostly well spoken middle class girls and boys.
i am continuously thnkful, that my schools students values class over sport.
no one cares about learning though.
Pat
9 Jul 08
Subject: draft the fans
With gas, mortgage, and food prices pulling this country down, I think we should take the most overpaid jocks and bust their salaries open like pinatas and spread the wealth. To be fair, that goes for billionaire celebutantes who don't do a fucking thing.
As for the rabid sports fans, they should be forcibly drafted so they can rechannel their misplaced loyalty into blood soaked, gut churning battle. If a sports team is all you're living for, you might as well sacrifice your life for something better.
-Ted
15 Jul 08
Subject: anti-sports lyrics
This might be the only song I've heard that puts down sports. From Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, here's Jock-O-Rama:
You really like gorillas?
We've got just the pet for you
It's the way you're forced to act
To survive our schoolsMake your whole life revolve around sports
Walk tough-don't act too smart
Be a mean machine
Then we'll let you get aheadJock-O-Rama-Save my soul
We're under the thumb of the Beef Patrol
The future of America is in their hands
Watch it roll over Niagara Falls
Pep rally in the holy temple
And you're forced to go
Masturbate en masse
With the favored religious cult
Cheerleaders yell-"Ra Ra Team"
From the locker room parades the prime beef
When archaeologists dig this up
They'll either laugh or cryJock-O-Rama-On the brain
Redneck-a-thon drivin' me insane
The future of America is in their hands
Watch it roll over Niagara Falls
Unzip that old time religion
On the almighty football field
Beerbellies of all ages
Come to watch the gladiators bleed
"Now boys, this game ain't played for fun
You're going out there to win
How d'ya win?
Get out there
And snap the other guy's knee!"Beat 'em up! Beat 'em up!
Ra Ra Ra
Snap those spinal cords
Ha Ha HaThe star quarterback lies injured
Unconscious on the football field
Looks like his neck's been broken
Seems to happen somewhere every yearHis mom and dad clutch themselves and cry
Their favorite son will never walk again
Coach says, "That boy gave a hundred percent
What spirit
What a man"But who cares?
Games over-Let's go get wasted man
To the 7-11, to the liquor store
Let's party all night and party some moreAnother Trans-Am
Wrapped itself around a telephone pole
"I ain't drunk, officer
I just fell gettin' out of my car"Don't worry about it, son
We were that way when we were young
You've got all the skills
To make a damn good businessmanJock-O-Rama-that's the law
Come lick the butts of the Beef Patrol
If the future of America is handed to them
Watch it roll over Niagara Fallsc1985
Ted
24 Jul 08
Subject: Awesome Site!
I've been trying to find a site like this for ages. I thought I was alone in the world as a sports hater. Keep up the good work!
Eric
27 Jul 08
Subject: Typical
As usual, the most violent crimes are committed by members of the high school football team...Here's another example:
PORT CARBON, Pa. (AP) - Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. Brandon J. Piekarsky, 16, and Colin J. Walsh, 17, were charged as adults with homicide and ethnic intimidation in the July 12 attack on Luis Ramirez.
A third teen, Derrick M. Donchak, 18, was charged with aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation and other offenses. All are from Shenandoah, where the attack occurred.
Additional charges are expected in the case that has roiled Shenandoah, a small, economically depressed town where police have reported friction between whites and a growing Hispanic population.
The suspects played football at Shenandoah Valley High School; Donchak, now enrolled at Bloomsburg University, was the quarterback last season.
"As a result of this crime, a young man has lost his life. Many other lives have been devastated, and the borough of Shenandoah has been filled with tensions between many ethnic groups," Schuylkill County District Attorney James Goodman said.
"Now that the criminal charges have been filed, we must let this case be handled in the criminal justice system," he said.
According to a police affidavit, the defendants and three 17-year-olds encountered Ramirez, 25, and a teenage girl in a park the night of July 12.
The youths goaded Ramirez and the girl, saying, "You should get out of this neighborhood" and "Get your Mexican boyfriend out of here," documents said. After Ramirez and the girl began walking away, someone yelled an ethnic slur at him, court documents said. He responded, "What's your problem?"
A fight ensued, during which police said Walsh punched Ramirez in the face. The victim fell and hit his head on the street, leaving him unconscious, after which Piekarsky kicked him in the head, police said.
All three suspects used ethnic slurs during the fight, which ended with Ramirez in convulsions and foaming at the mouth, authorities said. The attackers fled the scene; Ramirez underwent surgery but died July 14 of head injuries.
Piekarsky and Walsh were being held without bail, while Donchak was held on $75,000 bail.
Lawyers for Piekarsky and Walsh said their clients are not guilty and that there was no evidence to support the homicide charges. They also said they would try to have the case removed to juvenile court.
Roger Laguna, Walsh's lawyer, said the police affidavit "pretty much describes chaos, and what you have then after the fact is somebody trying to sort through that and attribute certain acts to certain individuals."
He said that although slurs might have been used, the fight was not motivated by ethnicity.
"I think any time there's a fight and any time you have one ethnic group fighting another, there's going to be racial slurs," he said. "I've seen that since I was a kid on a playground 20 years ago, but they never called it ethnic intimidation until very recently."
Frederick Fanelli, Piekarsky's lawyer, said he is "surprised and disappointed" that his client faces a homicide charge, attributing Ramirez's death to a "street fight that ended tragically."
Donchak declined to comment.
Ramirez, who entered the U.S. illegally about six years ago, worked in a factory and picked strawberries and cherries.
Crystal Dillman, the victim's 24-year-old fiancee, who is white and grew up in Shenandoah, has said Ramirez was often called derogatory names and told to return to his homeland. The couple had two children together, and Dillman also has a 3-year-old who thought of Ramirez as her father.
"I plan on moving out of this town as fast as I can. Not because I'm scared. I just don't want to see my children have to deal with what their father dealt with," Dillman said.
Preliminary hearings for all three suspects were set for Aug. 4.
Goodman said a fourth teen will be charged as a juvenile with aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation and that charges also will be filed against a man who provided alcohol to the defendants hours before the attack.
Ray
9 Aug 08
Subject: Spreadin' the word
When I'm not writing to you guys, I spread the word on YouTube. Here's an exchange.
Whoo Hoo! It's Friday Night Lights!!
Go Odessa! Just kidding. Jocks suck.
why do you hate jocks?
Where do I begin? How 'bout overrated, overpaid, dumb, arrogant, redneck, asswipe retards.
First off, im a jock and im not overpaid, im not dumb, im not even close to being a redneck. you cant just hate a whole group of people by how some of them act.
Sure I can.
There you have it. No excuses, no explanations, end of convo. So when the letters stop, the sentiment goes on elsewhere. Keep rockin!
- Ted
15 Aug 08
Subject:
Am I the only person on the planet who does not care a rodent’s ringpiece about the olamepics? People who do not usually care for sports will get very excited about this yawn-fest, rooting for their country and denigrating another just because someone can ride a bicycle faster than someone else. Do sports haters get this het up about the drivelly-arsed world cup soccer tournament every four years? No, because it is a bore. So what is special about the olamepics? After all, it’s just more boring sports! It’s no different from the soccer world cup, the baseball world series, or two kids playing tiddlywinks on a card table.
Someone asked me this week if I am watching the olamepics. I said, “I don’t watch sports.”
“It’s not sports*, it’s an international (blah blah blah)...”
“I don’t watch sports.”
“But you are supposed to root for your country (blather drivel shite)...”
“I don’t watch sports.”
Heaven forbid I should spoil someone’s enjoyment of these activities, but I find it a bit hypocritical that people who normally are commendably disdainful of sports will suddenly be interested, even fanatical, when sports are tarted up as the olamepic games. I don’t want to hear about them, particularly from armchair experts or ex-jocks living their lives vicariously through this piffle or getting boorishly nationalistic over someone splashing about in a swimming pool. I hate sports, whether it’s a local kids’ soccer game in the park or someone running about somewhere in communist China, and I can say with some pride that I have watched not one moment of this adolescent piffle.
Sports suck.
*The olamepics are not sports? What the hell are they then? Warfare? Nope: borefare.
Two-Dog
21 Aug 08
Subject: Another Sports Suck comment
I agree with 2-Dog on the olympics thing. Never seen such hoo-ha for nothing. I always dread the hype and drivel surrounding olympic events, but this year's oversaturated media coverage is brutal. I imagine it's a corpororate/media cabal to divert our attention away from the sad state our once great country is in. The same korporate [sic] media who admonish us populists for thinking our country's sovereignty and well being is a silly concern, that it's profits profits profits that matter, citizens be damned, now want us all to rally around the flag....over a SPORT?!!!
The sportshead loonies where I work ( who already make the break/lunchroom unhinabitable with sports talk and constantly blaring ESPN on the TV always ) have even outdid themselves: Now they rush home so they can anxiously await results from an event in a sport they previously had no interest in. "We" won gold/silver/bronze blah blah blah.............. You'd swear some would want to lob an ICBM at a nation who's player beat one of "ours", so passionate are they. Meatheads.
Tom
23 Aug 08
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Well said, Tom. You can have some national pride without believing that your country's international standing will be sullied if a foreigner runs faster than one of your countrymen. Also, those who like watching sports can enjoy them without elevating the activities to a level of importance undeserved by inconsequential children's games.
Two-Dog
27 Aug 08
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Well, I wasn't going to say anything but after looking (and laughing my ass off) at many of these letters from sports fans I feel inclined to bring up a few points.
First, many of these fans have mentioned that they don't mind that we hate sports but we shouldn't have a site dedicated to the eradication of sports because it's "rude". That's right, it's "rude". Supposedly because we try to crush sports and the idealism of them. But is it not rude to continually shove useless information on who won the basketball game in our face and then be infuriated when we don't care? Is it not rude to refer to any people who dislike sports as "gay" or "fags"?
And, furthermore, why is it perfectly acceptable to have a website dedicated to glorifying sports but not to make one that looks down on them? Isn't the point of websites to express the opinions of the creator?
Sure, we think it's alright for you to like sports but maybe we think it's rude that you're trying to crush US and our nonconformity. Perhaps we should try and have those sites banned?
Second, after reading many of these messages about how the site should be banned, among other things, it occurred to me that "What are sports fans doing on a sports haters’ website anyway?" You'd think if they love sports so much they wouldn't be google-ing "sports suck" or "I hate sports". I'm willing to bet that when searching for the latest sports scores or who knows what, this site is not the first on the list. Unless they really are that dimwitted to have "accidentally" clicked on a site that is obviously not going to tell them the latest scores of Derek Jeter.
Third, I still fail to see why anyone who dislikes sports must automatically be stupid. I admit I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box, but I do have a brain which I use at least 95% of the time. A lot of fat, beer-swigging, forty-year-old men can't say the same, as they spend the whole day sitting on a couch in front of the TV screaming "GOOOOOOOOAL" every time the ball goes in the God forsaken net.
I believe I had other points but, unfortunately, I’ve forgotten them. I may email again when I remember them.
And to clear things up, I am a fifteen-year-old girl. All sports fan who care to crush this email in their might muscled fists may abuse that fact as much as they wish.
Cheers,
Ryou
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