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Posted on 3/20/13 at 8:42 am to PeaRidgeWatash
Congrats Arky..you are the best at exercising.
Posted on 3/20/13 at 10:15 am to h0bnail
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Congrats Arky..you are the best at exercising.
And Snoregia sucks at exercising. It seems so easy yet you can't touch your toes no matter how hard you try. You can't feel good about that...
Posted on 3/20/13 at 12:11 pm to Drewbie
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Nowadays, billions of people around the world to tune in to see
ONCE every four years? What kinda brag is that? Rowing, Bobsled and Archery meet the same criteria
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Football is a sport that no one outside of the U.S. gives a rat's arse about
Then why is it one of the most watched sports on earth? Seriously Soccer is #1 but Basketball (massive following in China) and Football are very close second (Fans in USA, Canada and believe it or not, the NFL has a world wide following, not as big as soccer, but it exists. I'd compare it to the following the EPL enjoys in America).
This post was edited on 3/20/13 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 3/20/13 at 12:17 pm to Lordofwrath88
U mad Bama slow.
Posted on 3/20/13 at 1:01 pm to Drewbie
Posted on 3/20/13 at 5:30 pm to Lordofwrath88
quote:WTF is the EPL?
I'd compare it to the following the EPL enjoys in America
Posted on 3/20/13 at 5:31 pm to Bags of Milk
quote:And we STILL run faster.
Arkansas obesity percentage - 30.9%
Arkansas Obesity Ranking in US - 7th Fattest
Posted on 3/20/13 at 5:32 pm to Drewbie
How is this thread still going? There are four sports that matter in this world: Soccer, Football, Basketball and Baseball. Hockey fell out of this group about 15 years ago. Everything else is regional, underappareciated or garbage.
This post was edited on 3/20/13 at 5:33 pm
Posted on 3/20/13 at 5:34 pm to Roger Klarvin
quote:Hockey has a world-wide competition. Soccer has a world-wide competition. Baseball has a world-wide competition. Basketball has TWO world-wide competitions. Football...nothing. I would imagine football is the lowest on the totem pole. That's not even counting the under 17 world tournaments that both soccer and hockey have.
Hockey fell out of this group about 15 years ago.
And of course, track has many world-wide meets. It must suck to win championships in a sport no one outside of a few states gives a crap about.
This post was edited on 3/20/13 at 5:37 pm
Posted on 3/20/13 at 5:34 pm to Roger Klarvin
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There are three sports that matter in this world: Soccer, Football, Basketball and Baseball.
Does Aggy count in a different way than the rest of us?
Posted on 3/20/13 at 9:03 pm to I Ham That I Ham
quote:That's why they are the new academic standard in the SEC.
Does Aggy count in a different way than the rest of us?
Posted on 3/20/13 at 9:05 pm to Drewbie
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Hockey has a world-wide competition
That about four countries care about. Curling, another sport only Canadians, Russians and northern Europeans care about, also has a world-wide competition.
A country's interest in hockey is directly correlated with the amount of frozen wasteland it owns.
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Football...nothing. I would imagine football is the lowest on the totem pole.
The Superbowl has the largest viewing audience of any single event in the world (though the world cup has more if you take the whole tournament into account). More people tuned into the 2012 Superbowl than to every 2012 Olympic event combined. There are people in Bangladesh with $12 to their name who know who Peyton Manning is. Think they know who Sidney Crosby is?
Considering it's lack of global compeition, the popularity of American football is all the more astounding. People with three channels in the Africa can watch the Superbowl.
This post was edited on 3/20/13 at 9:12 pm
Posted on 3/20/13 at 9:13 pm to Roger Klarvin
quote:Link?
There are people in Bangladesh with $12 to their name who know who Peyton Manning is.
Posted on 3/20/13 at 10:10 pm to Drewbie
Unlike others I really like T&F. Much more than basketball or bore-me-to-tears baseball. Football? OP is out of his mind. But I thought he might want to bookmark these early outdoor T&F rankings:
USTFCCCA NATIONAL TEAM COMPUTER RANKINGS
MEN
1. Texas A&M
2. Arkansas
3. Florida
5. Auburn
10. LSU
11. Mississippi
14. Mississippi State
24. Georgia
WOMEN
4. LSU
6. Texas A&M
7. Florida
12. Arkansas
14. Georgia
21. Auburn
USTFCCCA NATIONAL TEAM COMPUTER RANKINGS
MEN
1. Texas A&M
2. Arkansas
3. Florida
5. Auburn
10. LSU
11. Mississippi
14. Mississippi State
24. Georgia
WOMEN
4. LSU
6. Texas A&M
7. Florida
12. Arkansas
14. Georgia
21. Auburn
Posted on 3/20/13 at 11:53 pm to finestfirst79
quote:Really? Cuz
MEN
1. Texas A&M
2. Arkansas
3. Florida
5. Auburn
10. LSU
11. Mississippi
14. Mississippi State
24. Georgia
ETA: Also by those rankings, it is clear the SEC doesn't care about track. 8/14 schools in the top 25. It is clearly a 2nd tier sport in our conference that gets no monetary support or recognition. All of these schools should clearly drop their programs altogether.
This post was edited on 3/21/13 at 12:02 am
Posted on 3/21/13 at 12:01 am to Drewbie
Repeating myself: "early outdoor T&F rankings"
Posted on 3/21/13 at 12:03 am to finestfirst79
quote:Repeating myself: "National Champs"
Repeating myself: "early outdoor T&F rankings"
Posted on 3/21/13 at 12:13 am to Drewbie
Some sports more globally relevant than American Football.
Korfball
Ping Pong
Sepak Takraw
Korfball
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Korfball (Dutch: Korfbal) is a mixed gender team sport, with similarities to netball and basketball. A team consists of eight players; four female and four male. A team also includes a coach. It was founded in the Netherlands in 1902 by Nico Broekhuysen. In the Netherlands there are around 580 clubs, and over 100,000 people playing korfball. The sport is also very popular in Belgium and Taiwan, and is played in 54 other countries
Ping Pong
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Table tennis is governed by the worldwide organization International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), founded in 1926. ITTF currently includes 217 member associations.[1] The table tennis official rules are specified in the ITTF handbook.[2] Since 1988, table tennis has been an Olympic sport,[3] with several event categories. In particular, from 1988 until 2004, these were: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles. Since 2008 a team event has been played instead of the doubles.
Sepak Takraw
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sepak takraw aka malaysian kickball is a sport where opponents volley a wicker ball over a net without the use of hands. nobody is really sure when this sport originally got started but the first recorded instance in history was during the 15th century when the son of a sultan named Raja Muhammad got hit in the head with one of the balls and stabbed the offending ball-kicker to death on the court
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