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[OC_Ram]

As I stated before the tweet actually had his twitter handle right which seemed to be legit, recently tweeted it seemed really legit until after I posted it and could not get any other websites ( nfl.com, yahoo etc) that confirmed it which told me it could be fake. Annnnndddd then seeing the responses back on the site I figured it probably was. So it wasn't meant to be funny but if your still not feeling good about it I can give you a belly rub and a glass of warm milk?

p.s. a very good website and good people, posts, and very informative on everything to do with our Rams! Welcome!

Maybe you guys should fight

Hahaha

 

[Mojo Ram]

I could say that for a lot of posts on this board but hey a board is 95% opinion right?

Opinion has nothing to do with posting fake news, but hey it certainly gets attention.

 

[Mojo Ram]

Anyway, no harm done. An honest mistake is no big deal but let's NOT post fake news or tweets just for kicks in here. Especially when everyone is expecting "news." It comes off as very trollish.

 

[OC_Ram]

OR you can fight


Hahaha


Hilarious

 

[kurtfaulk]

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Kill me. Kill me now.

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[Mackeyser]

Makes me doubt this move. I trust this front office but they will Swing and MISS with the best of them. Watkins was a miss that cost a 2nd round pick. Yea we have a comp pick coming back to us ( I think). This Suh deal? I have reservations about delaying the AD extension to sign Suh

I don’t. They already talked with AD about Suh and he’s on board.

So, I have no reservations whatsoever.

 

[kurtfaulk]

ONE HUNDRED AND EEEIIIGGGHHHTTTYYY.

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[FarNorth]

I am new to the forum. It looks like a great place to get information and having fun doing it. Not to be all sacrilegious but I I don't think posting something that is KNOWINGLY fake (masked as a legitimate tweet) as being fun or informative. Maybe I will learn that is just part of the forum.

If it is it shouldn't be imo.

 

[wmc540]

Has it already been said that anything that involves scoring by judges is not a sport?

 

[Mackeyser]

Generally, my personal and intentionally inflammatory definition of a sport is a team based athletic activity in which the participants actively work against each other to score points (but not too many points [I'm looking at you basketball] and not to few points [soccer]).

My aversion to calling boxing and MMA sports is because they are defined by their unsportsmanlike conduct. Punching someone
in the face is not something a sportsman does. Neither are most MMA activities.

Don't get me wrong. I love MMA. I really miss doing combatives and training in Judo. I just can't throw somebody in the air, lock them in an arm bar, and pretend like I'm being a sportsman.

Sports are, or were designed to be, about friendly competition and using human limits. Fighting events are about hurting people bad enough that they give up or dominating them enough that somebody decided you won. I'd be willing to accept combatsports in a similar way I suggested we use motorsports, maybe, but the focus, intent, and outcome is totally different in MMA and boxing than it is in other sports.

So Tennis isn’t a sport? Cycling may be dirty as hell, but it’s not a sport ( there’s no points to accumulate to win )?

Also, I think you’re 19th century definition of “sportsman” obviates many of the contests relevant to today.

What happens after an mma bout? They almost always hug it out and show respect for each other no matter how much trash was talked to sell tickets. Same in boxing.

Also, pretty sure football isn't remotely gentlemanly especially at the bottom of the pile.

 

[Ramhusker]

Ill put NASCAR drivers in the athlete category but anyone calling the pit crew athletes have been too close to the gas can guy. You do not need to be an athlete to hop over a small wall and wipe a window or stick a gas jug in a hole or even jack up a car. I am impressed by the fact that they can do all this in 14 dseconds but athletes they are not.

Except a majority of them are exactly that. Many used to play professional sports.

 

[Mackeyser]

Kinda looks like a sport, and no I don’t want to partake

I dunno if I’m more disturbed by the one guy biting the other guys massive schlong or that they’re literally fighting over an ass... in a compromising position...

#thingsiwouldneverseewithouttheinternet

 

[RamFan503]

Generally, my personal and intentionally inflammatory definition of a sport is a team based athletic activity in which the participants actively work against each other to score points (but not too many points [I'm looking at you basketball] and not to few points [soccer]).

My aversion to calling boxing and MMA sports is because they are defined by their unsportsmanlike conduct. Punching someone
in the face is not something a sportsman does. Neither are most MMA activities.

I can think of few sports where the combatants are more sportsmanlike than MOST boxing matches. Hell - football players use their whole body to punish the opponents. Most boxing matches end with the boxers hugging and congratulating each other. They may seem like dicks to each other before the fight but most of that is hype. I boxed when I was younger and you not only have to be in great physical shape to win in most cases but you have to use strategy and gamesmanship. And there are lots of points scored BTW - not as many as basketball and more than soccer.

 

[1maGoh]

So Tennis isn’t a sport? Cycling may be dirty as hell, but it’s not a sport ( there’s no points to accumulate to win )?

Also, I think you’re 19th century definition of “sportsman” obviates many of the contests relevant to today.

What happens after an mma bout? They almost always hug it out and show respect for each other no matter how much trash was talked to sell tickets. Same in boxing.

Also, pretty sure football isn't remotely gentlemanly especially at the bottom of the pile.

But football could be gentlemanly. You can't make a triangle choke gentlemanly. And trying to hurt people you're friends with requires some significant level of compartmentalization and cognitive dissonance.

We're seeing, right now, people trying to make football a safer, less intentionally injurious sport. You can't do that to boxing or MMA. The intent is to injure. The whole point is to injure or simulate injury. That's why they're called martial arts. Intended for war, where being a gentleman is an absolute no-go.

I guess you could say, "How do you do, sir (or ma'am, as the case may be)?" right before you shoot someone, but I feel that would be ineffective.

 

[RamFan503]

As I stated before the tweet actually had his twitter handle right which seemed to be legit, recently tweeted it seemed really legit until after I posted it and could not get any other websites ( nfl.com, yahoo etc) that confirmed it which told me it could be fake. Annnnndddd then seeing the responses back on the site I figured it probably was. So it wasn't meant to be funny but if your still not feeling good about it I can give you a belly rub and a glass of warm milk?

p.s. a very good website and good people, posts, and very informative on everything to do with our Rams! Welcome!

I think the problem came in when it was mentioned that it had been posted 12 times and also that you said it was fake when you posted it. I have to admit that it comes off as nonsense then to post it. Anyway..... moving on.

 

[1maGoh]

I can think of few sports where the combatants are more sportsmanlike than MOST boxing matches. Hell - football players use their whole body to punish the opponents. Most boxing matches end with the boxers hugging and congratulating each other. They may seem like dicks to each other before the fight but most of that is hype. I boxed when I was younger and you not only have to be in great physical shape to win in most cases but you have to use strategy and gamesmanship. And there are lots of points scored BTW - not as many as basketball and more than soccer.

But you don't do anything to earn points so much as you are arbitrarily awarded points based on someone's opinion of how that round went. No one has ever won a football game by split decision. You earned the points, or you didn't earn the points. They don't keep separate scores for each ref and see which team won in the eyes of the most refs at the end of the game.

 

[jrry32]

But you don't do anything to earn points so much as you are arbitrarily awarded points based on someone's opinion of how that round went. No one has ever won a football game by split decision. You earned the points, or you didn't earn the points. They don't keep separate scores for each ref and see which team won in the eyes of the most refs at the end of the game.

This is a hollow criticism, and it's not very accurate. How many games have we seen changed by a judgment call from the refs? Look at the Seattle-Green Bay game with the Fail Mary. One ref said TD, and one ref said INT. That call literally dictated the outcome of the game, and it was a total judgment call.

 

[RamFan503]

But you don't do anything to earn points so much as you are arbitrarily awarded points based on someone's opinion of how that round went. No one has ever won a football game by split decision. You earned the points, or you didn't earn the points. They don't keep separate scores for each ref and see which team won in the eyes of the most refs at the end of the game.

Do you really know anything about how a boxing match is scored? You think football refs are all seeing the same things the same way or that games are not decided based on subjective calls? Seriously? That's your criteria for sport?

 

[Jacobarch]

Omg almost 80!!!!!

 

[Riverumbbq]

What they go through might be tough. That doesn't make it a sport, but it does mean that I can respect the heck out of it.

Would you consider Cheerleading a sanctioned sport ? Many Junior and High School girls compete on a very high level in regionals and nationals' and it sure looks like a tough, sometimes dangerous and very athletic sport to me. I consider it sport, but only a few states seem to see it that way still, so should this be seen as discriminatory, or is there some logic that prevents them from being recognized ?