Journal Nidhogg's Journal: Sports: ESPN does math! 10
I found this interesting.
Looking over the list the one I have a problem with is the one apparently most other people do. Basketball at #4. Over rugby? You're shitting me. Have you seen those guys? They try to fukkin' KILL each other worse than the hockey nuts do.
Anyways. Discuss if the mood strikes you.
And thank you for playing.
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If you look though it only scored really high in Nerve, which I'll buy, and only moderately high in Analytics and Endurance neither of which I have a problem with.
I can call it a sport though just for the reason that it takes ungodly amounts of moolah to participate in at a professional level. Just like all the others. Yankees anyone?
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For the overall score, I guess it depends if you mean dificulty as in "dificult to survive" or "dificult to perform well in achieving the objective"
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Must be nice.
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That reminds me of an anecdote I heard about one famous old-time sports writer (I forget who). The publisher of the paper judged the popularity of the columnists by how much mail they received. So this guy would occasionally deliberately put a slightly-incorrect statistic in his column which would generate an avalanche of mail from nitpicky
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Some of the rankings boggle my mind (Score:2)
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I played a lot of sports in my youth and nothing comes close to being as hard to play as golf. Non-golfers have trouble believing it but it's true.
And you're absolutely right. If you have a decent swing and you don't score well you have no one to blame but yourself. Which makes you want to go back out there and not make those mistakes again. It's a
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It's below Horse Racing. Yeah, that sport where the horse does all the work.
Funny.
I also disagree with boxing being number one. Rugby yeah, I can see that, and football as well.
But not boxing.
Sheesh. Crack smokers.
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Afterwards he said that was the most tired he has ever been.
Plus I'm not sure I'd ever want Tyson or Ali (in his prime) to ever hit me. Even in jest.