They used to call them gladiators.
That's pretty much exactly how I look at it. Some people get really upset that people on a team that they pull for aren't choir boy angelic members of society. I personally don't care. I'd rather my teams be full of thugs and degenerates. Those guys win games. They're generally better ball players than the honor roll students. I look at football players as pieces in a big chess game being played for my amusement. I don't care that they're actual human beings. Run faster, hit harder, do your job and entertain me. That's what I want.
I think they should have a drug vs. clean version for all sports. I know which I'd be watching.
Boo, I can't watch this in Ye Old Blighty.
Bummer. How about this one from a different site?
Update: All-Drug Olympics | Video | Saturday Night Live | NBC
Those pro sports players have got more stitches loose than anyone I know.
I was kind of pissed when they started getting all heavy on doping. I think they should have a drug vs. clean version for all sports. I know which I'd be watching.
Foul play is OK by me. For me, if you go to that unnatural place that I call super competitive sport, you might as well go the whole hog and really screw yourself up. I'm not agreeing with that dream or anything. I decided to give up competitive sports in my late teens, simply because I couldn't handle the pain and fierce competition. But I have to say, the best sports people are the ones that literally throw their bodies on the line to win.
Baseball has a big problem with doping/steroids/etc. It all started in the late 80s. Guys started getting really big and hitting monster home runs. Fans loved it. Then in like 1994 there was a players strike that killed a season and cancelled the world series. Fans were pretty outraged, and when the next season started relatively few people went to the games. It was really bad for baseball, but a few years later there was the magical summer of 1998 in which Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were both on track to obliterate a long standing legendary record - the home run record for a season. Up till that point the record was 61 home runs hit in one season by the legendary Roger Maris in 1961. Before that it was Babe Ruth who hit 60 in like 1928 or something. So each record stood for a long time each and has been held by all-time baseball royalty. Anyway the home run record is a hallowed record and McGwire and Sosa got everyone excited about baseball again. The thing is, these dudes were big hulking monsters. Everyone suspected they were juicing, but at the time no one cared because baseball was exciting again. Later on, it was revealed that they were in fact cheating and the shit has been hitting the fan ever since. There was a big stupid congressional hearing about it in 2005. Roger Clemens, one of the all-time great power pitchers got caught up in it and fought literally everyone in court over it. He has enough money to win, and he did, but no one believes that he didn't cheat. Barry Bonds who to this day has the record with 73 home runs got caught using some top-secret designer undetectable steroids and went down for it. 2011's MVP Ryan Braun just got busted hard for cheating and lying about it. Alex Rodriguez who is by far the richest dude in baseball has been cheating for years and shit's getting really bad for him now. It's a big deal in baseball. Fans didn't care at first, but now everyone is all uppity about the juicers. The kicker is that now even current players are speaking out against it. Players usually band together as a united front no matter what happens, but not anymore. Supposed clean players are speaking up and throwing the juicers under the bus. It's a mess. The "steroid era" might finally be coming to an end. Those juiced up records will probably never be broken.
No, the UK does not allow drugs in sport.
That's too bad. I believe it is mandatory here.
It's a great skit. A huge Russian wrestler juiced on roids, tranquilizers and alcohol tries to triple the existing weightlifting record and rips his own arms off in the process. Good stuff.
I don't remember them in the late 2000's...it's possible. The big Kurt Warner years were around 1999 or so....until 2001 when the patriots upset them in that incredibly awesome super bowl. I think that was the beginning of the end for the greatest show on turf.
Good lord...Tim Tebow made the 1st cut and is still a patriot! He's trying for that coveted 3rd quarterback position. Quite a change from the media darling "savior" of the broncos a while back.
Haha yeah rugby is awesome. I'd watch it all the time if it got any coverage here in the USA. American football is sometimes bloody, but what's worse about it, and more awesome, are the savagely broken bones and dislocations. You ALWAYS see dude's knees being bent backwards, sideways, twisted around, their legs flopping over like they have extra joints, arms being folded in half,.....what it lacks in actual blood it makes up for with snapped limbs and shredded joints. Some of that stuff is pretty graphic and can make you queasy. Snot-bubbling concussions are a huge issue these days in the NFL with lawsuits coming from ex-players for having degenerative brain disorders. Rugby players don't really wear any padding, but they're not nearly as fast, big, or powerful as American football players are either. Even with helmets and padding dudes are getting their shit really fucked up.
They specialize in taking fringe goofballs and turning them into football machines.....or murderous tight ends.
He was a punk ass at Florida too. I'm surprised to took this long to catch up to him.Ha! True...but it's nice to see that, unlike the Ravens, they have zero tolerance for murder. They cut Hernandez loose before he was even charged.
I prefer to watch it on TV. Since high-def became the norm, it's way better than being at the game....if you want to actually see what's happening. You go to games for the atmosphere, you watch on TV to actually see the game.Football was made for television from a viewing standpoint, a lot of people don't like going to games because the action is too hard to follow.
well, um, I played little league baseball...