Laxers...anyone?

[ElephantGuts]

Lacrosse is quite popular where I live (Westchester, NY). I don't play. Any sports.

 

[GammaZord]

Oh wow. That looks absurdly violent.
(American sports are usually pretty suckful anyway. This looks more interesting than baseball, at any rate...you'd probably get in trouble for hitting someone with the bat there.)

yes you do get in trouble for hitting someone with the bat-it's called manslaughter

 

[The Man With the Soap]

Didn't lacrosse originally start as a Native American sport where the primary goal was to physically injure the enemy team before scoring?

Yep, it was also usually played on a field several kilometers long, right?

Didn't lacrosse originally start as a Native American sport where the primary goal was to physically injure the enemy team before scoring?

The fact that lacrosse is a NATIVE AMERICAN sport makes it the most american sport. It was also called the Lttle Brother of War.

Canada calls dibs.

Our national team beat your's, lax is ours.

 

[zacaron]

Didn't lacrosse originally start as a Native American sport where the primary goal was to physically injure the enemy team before scoring?

yes I think it did I saw an epic version of lacrosse in mexico from some profesionals it was similar to the amarican version exept the ball was on fire

 

[Bofus Teefus]

Before I opened the thread, I tried to figure out what the discussion was going to be about, and it hinged on what exactly a laxer was. Here are the possibilities I'd come up with.

If laxer = laxative, then obviously the OP is out of laxative tablets and needs one.
If laxer = one who consumes laxatives, the OP may have been interested in which of the escapists regularly use laxative.
If laxer = one who relaxes, then OP just wanted to make sure we weren't all stressed out.

To my surprise, it has something to do with lacrosse. Funny thing is that where I did my undergrad, only females (and quite a few, at that) seemed to play lacrosse. Just an observation

 

[SimuLord]

(Back from reading a wikipedia article on it) doesnt sound that great at all...what makes it better than other sports

Its the "popped collar" of American sports. You're not missing anything.

At my school, lacrosse is a magnet for future frat-boys with bad cases of "White Male Entitlement Syndrome".
I avoid the sport like the plague.

Yeah, the two criteria for figuring out the eliteness and entitlement complexes of a college.
1. They have a really good lacrosse team.
2. They have a really good tennis team.

Don't forget rugby and golf.