Stroke Of Midnight

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  1. Shiningted

    Shiningted I want my goat back Administrator

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    Soccer is bizarrely enough the sport I got furthest in, First Grade Centre-Forward no less in Hi School. Its bizarre because i think soccer is a dull sport with occasional amazing goals, lots of acting and tedious outcomes most of the time. I'm just far too thin to play Rugby League :( Baseball was my preferred participatory sport :) Rugby League is hands-down my preferred spectatory sport.

    http://www.parraeels.com.au/ Its the last round tonight and the Eels are playing for the Minor Premiership (finishing on top of the table before the finals start). GO YOU EELS!!!
     
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  2. Cerulean the Blue

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    Hockey is great for constant action. Go Avalanch!
     
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    I played hockey at high school but I didn't think any of you lot would care.
     
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  4. Shiningted

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    Is one of you talking about prancing around a field with a funny stick and the other skating around hitting people?
     
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  5. Cerulean the Blue

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    I was refering to ice hockey.
     
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  6. Cujo

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    I played both.
     
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  7. Heavydan85

    Heavydan85 Drinking Champion

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    If I could skate I would play hockey for fun sometime, but sincce i fall lost on ice I stick to land based sports. I love playing football, basketball, and dodgeball, and would like to try and play rugby. I might get to try since a friend of my spent the summer in austrailia and learned a lot about rugby he says. Well anywho i got to get going to court for an M.I.P. i got last weekend...I hate bad drinking stories
     
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  8. Lord_Spike

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    In my youth: Baseball, swimming (on a team), soccer.
    As an adult: Bicycling, kayaking.

    I also drive, shoot, pursue and (occasionally) fight professionally, and have been doing so for over 20 years. I keep getting better at the former and worse at the latter of these things. Are these 'sports', anyway...?


    Pro sport teams: Steelers, Pirates, Penguins. City of Champions. 'Nuff said.
    College teams: Gamecocks. The name says it all.
     
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  9. Cujo

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    Yes if you can be hurt or killed doing it, it's a sport otherwise it's just a game.
     
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  10. Lord_Spike

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    Then I guess I'm a 'professional' sportsman. Too bad I don't make what the guys who play professional 'games' make. I could afford to buy jet tickets for everyone to an actual meeting of the toee modders & fans association...!
     
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  11. Cujo

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    Hey that "football" is as a sport or atleast training is, I remember on the news a few years ago some guy dying of heat stroke while training.

    and last time I checked the sport you were most likly to die playing in Aussie was golf. Rugby and motorsport were well down the list.
     
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  12. Heavydan85

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    last i knew poll vaulting had a few deaths as well.
     
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    That's only because all the old codgers who play golf are on thier way to a stroke. :evil_laug
     
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  14. Lord_Spike

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    It also happened quite recently:

    http://fox59.trb.com/news/footballdeath,0,7992703.story?coll=wxin-home-1

    Aussie golf deaths are more likely from strokes of the 'lightning' and 'heat' variety.
     
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  15. Shiningted

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    A decent quick bowler can kill - that's why some short-pitched deliveries are called 'rib-ticklers', now and then someone gets one in the chest and the force of the blow has fatal cardiac repercussions. For those who don't realise, a cricket ball is bowled at almost the same speed as a fastball is pitched, and a cricket ball is harder.

    Our most dangerous sport though would have to be rock fishing, thats the one where you get a few deaths every single year.
     
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