Poll: Favorite Sport

[cookyy2k]

Why no F1? tis the only sport I watch.

 

[Kae]

I voted football, but then I saw soccer, damn it! I meant Football not that other weird sport that isn't even played with your feet and has no ball, so yeah Football but the real football not that other thing.
Also PLEASE stop calling it soccer it's football OK? That other sport you call football you are the only ones that mean it when you say football in the rest of the world when someone says football they mean that sport you call soccer and you just end up confusing everybody else.
[sub]And I'm not even a big fan of the sport, I only watch the world cup.
Also the "I don't care much for sports" option should have been "other" as there are too many sports to fit in the poll and if someone doesn't care for them then he shouldn't even be choosing one in the first place.[/sub]

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Football, by which I mean proper football and not American Rugby (though I did play along and vote soccer >.>). Big Man U fan. Going to be a very tight title race this year, will be humiliating if City win it, though I suppose with the influx of funds and resources now at there disposable I begrudgingly admit that it's pretty inexorable they're going to clinch a PL title at some point, I just hope it isn't some time soon.

 

[Dimitriov]

Canadian, so yeah, hockey >

But seriously it's gotta be the most fast paced, action intense sport I know of. It really is exciting to watch a good game.

Also:

GO CANUCKS GO!

 

[nico74]

I love baseball and my favorite team is the Houston Astros. The best player in the history of this great sport is Ted Williams with his amazing swing. Although, my favorite player was Ken Griffey Jr.

I mean come on! He hit back to back homeruns with HIS FATHER!! How cool is that!

 

[ChupathingyX]

I enjoy watching the World Cup, so I'll say football...or soccer, or whatever you prefer.

 

[Tharwen]

Snowboarding. I spent the day doing it (in the most gorgeous powder I've ever seen) and in a few months I'll have my CASI level 2 instructor qualification.

It's fucking awesome.

Hockey.

I'm Canadian. It's mandatory.

Also, it's a pretty fantastic sport. I bet if you gave it a try, you would like it too, hypothetical reader of this post.

I doubt that's going to happen. I literally just finished cleaning the blood off my face a few minutes ago after trying skating for the first time.

 

[Nimcha]

Any sport that involves an engine and at least two wheels.

 

[GrimTuesday]

I'd say soccer...
Except there's no such sport.

It's called Football. Harumph.

Aww, come on, cut me some slack, its the time of the day that many American are up including myself (although I'm always up it seems), and we call it soccer. To be honest, I would prefer we call American football Gridiron but there's not a ton of support for that.

[HEADING=2]I will never ever cut anyone slack for calling football "soccer"!![/HEADING]​

Spoiler: Raaaargh?

[HEADING=3]Raaaaaargh![/HEADING]​

[sub]Huh. For some reason, I didn't get a message when you quoted me. Strange.[/sub]

Thats because I fucked up the quote by accidentally deleting the last ] and had to go back and edit it, if you have to fix it through the edit function, it doesn't send the message.

Like I said, I totally get your objection, but I was just going with what I call it. Also, for all you who call it handegg, I find it somewhat insulting, as it is meant more to mock the sport, that to give it an appropriate name.

 

[GrimTuesday]

I love baseball and my favorite team is the Houston Astros. The best player in the history of this great sport is Ted Williams with his amazing swing. Although, my favorite player was Ken Griffey Jr.

I mean come on! He hit back to back homeruns with HIS FATHER!! How cool is that!

See you in the AL west in 2013, Finally we get a team that we will be able to beat on a regular basis. I do have a lot of respect for Astros fans though, they have to put up with as much shit as us Mariners fans do (perhaps more considering you share a state with the Rangers).

 

[ottenni]

Australian Rules Football.

100% manly

Spoiler

Dont argue with Dustin Martin

Let's see him to that to a pies player. Carn the magpies!

Go back to the dentist you dirty Collingwood supporter, or ill unleash Cameron Ling upon you.

 

[Dr.Susse]

Australian Rules Football.

100% manly

Spoiler

Dont argue with Dustin Martin

Let's see him to that to a pies player. Carn the magpies!

Go back to the dentist you dirty Collingwood supporter, or ill unleash Cameron Ling upon you.

Good old Collingwood forever!

 

[DustyDrB]

I'm a baseball nerd. And I'm a Yankees fan (as is my dad, as was my grandfather). Yeah, if you think I'm passionate about games on this site, you haven't been in one of several hours-long discussions on baseball with me. I was a third baseman in high school (State champs, woot! Oh, Dustin. Stop living in the past...) and played baseball in the spring (for school), summer (Little League, Pony League, Legion) and fall (for a city league).

I know a freakish amount of history (ever see those George Will SNL parodies? I'm like that), and had Ted Williams The Science of Hitting memorized by heart at age 13. Every time I was on deck in a game, I'd recite lines of the book in my head and deliberately just practice my stance, trigger, swing, and follow-through.

I like tennis too, tough I can't play it anymore. Or at least not until have have surgery on my knee (have been living with a partially torn ACL for about three years now). There's just too much pivoting. It's a shame, too. Charleston is a great tennis city.

 

[Truth Cake]

I like baseball- playing it, that is, not watching. I don't pay attention to major league sports, so I have no favorite teams or players- they're all just names to me.

 

[theevilgenius60]

I love football. American, not that other game. I was an offensive lineman(and a damn good one), I currently coach that position as a volunteer(until I get my teaching certificate, then it'll be my job). My favorite team is and has always been the New Orleans Saints, so basically I pulled for a loser my entire life until about six years ago. Conversely, almost every team I ever played for was a winner. I got to play in four state championship games in three sports(1 football, 1 basketball, 2 baseball), losing all four. Let me tell you, that is one of the most awful and hollow feelings out there. And I know that feeling better than just about anybody(Jim Kelly aside). Sorry for the life story. Guess I opened the floodgates on that one.

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

Baseball will always be my number one. San Fransisco Giants fan - born and raised.

 

[ACman]

snip

One application of 0.999... as a representation of 1 occurs in elementary number theory. In 1802, H. Goodwin published an observation on the appearance of 9s in the repeating-decimal representations of fractions whose denominators are certain prime numbers. Examples include:

1/7 = 0.142857142857... and 142 + 857 = 999.

1/73 = 0.0136986301369863... and 0136 + 9863 = 9999.

E. Midy proved a general result about such fractions, now called Midy's theorem, in 1836. The publication was obscure, and it is unclear if his proof directly involved 0.999..., but at least one modern proof by W. G. Leavitt does. If one can prove that a decimal of the form 0.b1b2b3... is a positive integer, then it must be 0.999...,

 

[GrimTuesday]

I'm a baseball nerd. And I'm a Yankees fan (as is my dad, as was my grandfather).

Damn Yankees. The Mariners deserved to win that World Series in 2001, Even with the 9/11 tragedy, we were the superior team, but that's the way of baseball...

I love football. American, not that other game. I was an offensive lineman(and a damn good one), I currently coach that position as a volunteer(until I get my teaching certificate, then it'll be my job). My favorite team is and has always been the New Orleans Saints, so basically I pulled for a loser my entire life until about six years ago. Conversely, almost every team I ever played for was a winner. I got to play in four state championship games in three sports(1 football, 1 basketball, 2 baseball), losing all four. Let me tell you, that is one of the most awful and hollow feelings out there. And I know that feeling better than just about anybody(Jim Kelly aside). Sorry for the life story. Guess I opened the floodgates on that one.

I was an Offensive lineman too, and I was pretty good too, I was so strong back in high school, I broke three ribs on a guy while pass blocking during one game (Just from the force I hit him with, I wasn't playing dirty. Although I did used to headbutt people as I fired out, but that's just what you did on the line). We were one game away from the Washington State championship game and lost a really tight game, so I know know that feeling, I've never seen so many tough guys cry in my life.

 

[Keepitclean]

I chose Football not knowing if you meant American football or Aussie rules or whatever, but that's cool because those two are my favourite sports to play and watch anyway.

I'd love if people got over the whole hating another sport because because it shares a name with something completely different somewhere completely different. Once I decided that I was going to stop being a retard and actually give Gridiron a chance I found I loved it and started playing. Made starting running back for my local team too.

I could never get into soccer. I tried, I really did. It's just to soft and ridiculous for me.

My favourite American football team is the New England Patriots. Since I'm not American I have no local team, I just chose them more or less at random. I became very attached to them though and I would love to see them win on Feb 5.

Favourite AFL team is the West Coast Eagles. I support them because they are the local team.

 

[DustyDrB]

I'm a baseball nerd. And I'm a Yankees fan (as is my dad, as was my grandfather).

Damn Yankees. The Mariners deserved to win that World Series in 2001, Even with the 9/11 tragedy, we were the superior team, but that's the way of baseball...

I love football. American, not that other game. I was an offensive lineman(and a damn good one), I currently coach that position as a volunteer(until I get my teaching certificate, then it'll be my job). My favorite team is and has always been the New Orleans Saints, so basically I pulled for a loser my entire life until about six years ago. Conversely, almost every team I ever played for was a winner. I got to play in four state championship games in three sports(1 football, 1 basketball, 2 baseball), losing all four. Let me tell you, that is one of the most awful and hollow feelings out there. And I know that feeling better than just about anybody(Jim Kelly aside). Sorry for the life story. Guess I opened the floodgates on that one.

I was an Offensive lineman too, and I was pretty good too, I was so strong back in high school, I broke three ribs on a guy while pass blocking during one game (Just from the force I hit him with, I wasn't playing dirty. Although I did used to headbutt people as I fired out, but that's just what you did on the line). We were one game away from the Washington State championship game and lost a really tight game, so I know know that feeling, I've never seen so many tough guys cry in my life.

Nooooo, that was so meant to be the Yankees win! There was the 9/11 angle, Jeter made "The Play" during the ALDS, there was that electric atmosphere ("No game six!" Lou Pinella had vowed a comeback win in the ALCS which meant a game 6 would have been in Seattle. But the crowed. My God, I had chills watching it on TV). Then there was the World Series, which had the Yankees winning a few come-from-behind games (after Byun Hyung Kim blew some saves for the Diamondbacks). It was also Paul O'Neill's last series before he retired. It seemed absolutely meant.

God, I was a superstitious mess during that series. I honestly made myself freeze in place whenever something good happened for the Yanks. Didn't wanna ruin the good vibes. But that freakin' bloop single...