Tyferra wrote:
Aussie rules? Best sport in the world? you know, for me to believe that it would have to come up with a better name for itself - I mean - aussie rules... that's just dumb.
It's an okay game though - kind of reminds me of ballet though.
I, like most if not all Kiwi blokes, like to watch Rugby, (Union.) I mean, we are reputed to have the best team in the world, (we do, but it fluxuates every now and then.) We thrashed the Lions - even the Maori All Blacks took them out, and when we did the All Black tour of the UK and Ireland we smashed all of them too - including the current 'world chumps' England who don't have Jonny their soccor playing star any more to kick their conversions and penalties while we get Dan Carter.
I'm not bitter, I just liked the pun 'world chumps.' Nothing personal.
Paintball though - that is fun. I don't really like the whole set up thing, with bits of 2x4 and rubber tires to make an otherwise barren pieceof land interesting. It's still fun, but I prefer the wilderness. There's a place fairly near me, TAG wargames, this place has a couple of courses, the first one's the small one - kind of like what I described before, a couple of forts bult on to it, the second one I can't remember, but the third one is the biggest, yet most barren in terms of man made structures. Okay, so there's a main point in the middle, and one small fort for each team, poorly built from thin bits of wood and corrugated iron, but most of it takes place in the buch. There's cliffs and a river and trees and gorse which fucking hurts, but when you're playing paintball that dosn't really matter.
Edit: Oh, and every time I play Paintball with my mates my Dad insists on coming. He's a valuable asset too because he's a mean bastard. He grabs people's guns and shoots them with it. He also grabs the barrel of other people's guns and hammer a few shots at them while they are helpless to fire back. He also played on my team when we were playing a game where if you were shot you had to call for a medic. The medic was anyone on the team who tagged them. My Dad shot a Twelve year old and told him viciously, "Right. Now call for a Medic." When the Medic came he shot him, and so on until he got shot and was so far into the bush that none of us could tag him - we were defending an onslaught and running out of ammo while our weapons were jamming. Fucking classic man.
might i remind my Kiwi friend of the outcome of 95, 99, 03 (07?), not even big Jonah could bring the Ellis trophy back to NZ. cough, cough, choke
leaguers bust out that highlight video everytime someone wants to talk about tough sports, were those highlighs from a period of 30 years? 1 trinations series or 1 weekend of s14 produce the same results. and league doesn't have any of the finesse or strategy of union.
nfl vs league, 2 games that got worse the farther removed from union they got. lining up nfl players vs leaguers, best hitters? i think leaguers would be outsized. linebacker (the mobile defensive tacklers) joey porter from the pittsburgh steelers - 6'3" 250lbs 1.8m 113kgs - the big man always wins right?
ARL, extending yourself in the air for the ball while someone gets a free hit? That may not be bright. It's a real intense kicking game.
generalizations about the intelligence of athletes is bs, they know athletics/sports at least, it's their job
most yanks (me) played gridiron w/out the pads in our neighborhoods. we also played smear the queer (back in the day b4 the pc police).
Tyferra, never invite me to paintball w/your Dad Was he in Nam?