First off Congrats to 2-RUBIE, our 1000th registered member! We’re getting about 10K hits/day now, as high as 30K when there is news, and Rubie wins the 1K prize: Immortality in Heaven! Yes, you RUBIE will be magicly transported to heaven when your life ends for eternal happiness with Superman. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back!Now for my off-topic mini-rant (and personal opinion). Yes, I know, this is the NOGODBLOG, not some place for Dave to rant. But hey, I’m on-topic MOST of the time.Today I saw a commercial on TV for the NHL, where the players are referred to as “HERO”. BULL! A Hero is someone who risks life or limb to help another person or his/her country. As I see it, if someone does something self-sacrificing or dangerous that I’m too chicken to do, s/he’s a hero to me. Firefighters are heroes. Some guy with no teeth who plays a game for three months for $1.3 Million may be a talented athlete, but he is no hero. Get a grip, NHL. You play a game. End of rant.
Dangerman,
Where can a human go now that doesn’t have internet access ?
Can you hear me now ?
Well try to have fun !
I remember a discussion in an anthropology class about sports. According to my professor, sports are basically an outlet for the tribal-warring-testosterone we have as humans. Perhaps by providing sports we supply pseudo tribes for the average person so he isn’t out warring around for real.
Not that we don’t have plenty of real warring and chest pounding, but at least sports provide an outlet for some of it. Real warring is a part of humans fighting for resources which will no doubt be with us for a long time.
I don’t know if any of this is true. However, I do know I don’t consider participation in sports heroic in any way. I have a few complaints about capitalism, and how valor is rewarded is one of them.
I have many sports heros. They fight for a cause (my team usually)against another team ( the villain) and they have exceptional abilities.
SM
ramen brother the huskers suck
anybody else from omaha area or ne
udonman:
“Wait! This isn’t Omaha!”
- Zippy the Pinhead.
sword_strike: “I know where you heard this: Rome!”
Ummm….Not really that old.
Am I? Nah!
“sword_strike: “I know where you heard this: Rome!”
Ummm….Not really that old.
Am I? Nah!”
Not in terms of personality
You’re only as old as you care to make yourself.
well wherever zippy is I would like to be there because today is a husker game day and all day it will be huskers huskers huskers and if they win you hear how great they are if they lose they got cheated
RobW said:
Sports offer nothing. Especially team sports, they are activities for conformists, who are incapable of thinking for themselves or creating anything new.
Thank you for putting into words why I have never felt right about the whole sports subculture. I have always thought watching sports was entertainment for the creativity challenged people.
All sports “heros” are not created equal, though. Regardless of his support for GW, I love Lance Armstong. He is a hero, not because he won the Tour de Lance 7 times, but because he overcame so many obstacles in his life. He has done a great deal to promote healthy living and active lifestyle choices for kids. He set up the LIVESTRONG foundation to aid cancer research.
There are many more sports personalities that have taken their fame and money a step furthur to earn the title of HERO.
DiArtemis
lance has said in interviews that hew is not a supporter of gw just that he was invited to the white house on an occasion or two and since they are both texans people belive he supports gw and your right he his a hero his story and his foundation helps everyone with cancer cope and maybe be cured I hope everyone here wears the yelloy bracelet or his clothing line from
nike
Roosta, Go to my nephew, put your hands around your own throat, and speak with difficulty the words “I’m the Red Sox”
Since this one is called Mostly off topic I’ll post this here.
I’m going to be away from internet access for about two months, so unfortunately, I won’t be able to post here on the blog. But fear not! For I shall return around the Winter Solstice! Until we meet again my atheist brethren, and merry solstice!
bon voyage dangerman!
DiArtemis: Lance Armstrong is an atheist. http://www.lancearmstrongfanclub.com/uktimesonline.html-
“Although a confirmed atheist, he takes me almost immediately to the tiny chapel, lovingly describes its features, and, above all, the 15th-century painting of the Crucifixion that takes pride of place.”
“But he says his politics are “middle to Left”. He is “against mixing up State and Church, not keen on guns, pro women’s right to choose”. And very anti war in Iraq.”
I’ve always found sports boring. Maybe it’s just me, but they just don’t have seem to have a point. I can’t sit there and watch them on television. It fails to keep my attention.
Oh, and I’ve never considered a sports star a hero.
I think there are a few positive aspects to sports–for children and teenagers. Organized sports teaches teamwork, playing by the rules, accepting loss, etc. If I had kids, I would be happy to enroll them in the sport of their choice. Adult/professional sports, however, are entirely different. There is very little value in pro sports. The players are not getting the benefits of learning these concepts (the teamwork, etc.) that young people do. They are grossly over-valued and over-paid. Our society puts too much emphasis on sheer physical, athletic strength, and not enough on more intellectual activities (science and creative pursuits). I would like to see children aspire to become the next Einstein, not the next Shaq O’Neil. Sure, it’s entertaining to watch Tiger sink that long putt, but sports should be viewed as just that: entertainment. The players should not be so glorified. They do not contribute anything of real value to society. I think actors are over-paid as well, but at least one can say that some movies do contain some intellectual or educational value, or at least have the therapeutic value of producing laughter (good medicine, according to Patch Adams
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