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Watching NFL live at the moment. New England Patriots visit Indianpolis Colts. Not sure what is going on as the action keeps stopping and then the coverage goes to two men in a TV studio talking about what has just happened. Wish they would just stay in the stadium.

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We are not getting as many commercial breaks as you guys get just one break every half hour. The men in the studio are somewhere in England and I guess are employed to talk when the feed in the US goes to commercial. It's very early morning here 3am and I'm getting fed up of this. May go back to bed again.

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You think NFL is frustrating on TV, try going to live NFL game.  The TV timeouts are ridicolous.

 

I also gave up on all professional sports (about 4 years ago).  I got turned off by all the arguements between players and owners.  What can you do with 5.6 million a year that you cant do with 5 million a year?  The money these guys get to throw a ball or shoot a puck is insane.

 

It just left me with a bad taste.  I cancelled my cable TV, went Netflix, and have never looked back!

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I watched the first of the NFL games at Wembly this year on tv. I got so irate I almost threw something at the tv. I could deal with the ad breaks etc but the idiots hired by the UK channel to commentate insisted that they had to finish their conversation rather than return to the field when play resumed. They were obviously of the opinion that their wittering was of much greater import than the actual game people had tuned in to watch. As it is the same morons that are doing it each week I haven't bothered watching another game.

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I've found the only way to watch most sports is to record it on the DVR and skip through the commercials and other crap. Forward button shoots ahead 30 seconds and reverse button goes backward 10 seconds. I can watch a three hour baseball game in under an hour. I'm not much of a football fan but I do enjoy college basketball. Always watch the I.U. games. Go Hoosiers!

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I  HATE professional sports of all kinds.

I have a big auto racing fan most of my life and even the pro auto races TURN ME OFF now.

The amount of money the athletes make these days is INSANE!

Who pays for their wages? The FANS that is who! Ticket prices for a four hour sporting event are CRAZY! Not to mention all the advertising money the television networks get and endorsement money that the "stars" of the sport get. 

If school teachers, policemen and firemen made one quarter of the money that the lowest paid quarter back does, the world would be a much better place.

 

Rant over.

 

Rog

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It is really becoming the No Fun League. I help out with a JROTC rifle team and we have a couple of high school football players on the team. I heard them complaining about having to go to the weight room at 5am every school day. I asked them why they did it if they were so upset about doing it. They said that they would get a college scholarship and then get drafted so they could get their pay day. I don't think that high school kids should be pushed so they have a 1 and a million chance of getting a pay day later in life. But that is how the local coach motivates them. I have a daughter so I can't really say any thing to him but I probably will. 

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I've been trying to come up with a 'polite' way of saying what I feel on this but Mike just nailed it. Sporting ability really only opens one avenue for the future whereas a reasonable level of academic knowledge can open untold avenues. Not all kids are going to make it to college/university but given a good grounding in the core subjects they will have a much better chance of finding a job that they are going to enjoy doing rather than be either forced into something they hate (which ends up destroying them) or depending on handouts of some kind. No matter where you live in the world it is ultimately the parents responsibility to prepare their kids for the future. To use a couple of americanisms 'It's time for them to step up to the plate' instead of 'passing the buck'.

 

Being the entirely self centered old git that I am I want the future generations to suceed for one simple reason - pay taxes to fund a pension for me. No altruism or desire to help my fellow man, I just want to be able to feed myself in my retirement.

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Sporting ability really only opens one avenue for the future whereas a reasonable level of academic knowledge can open untold avenues.

 

There are two sides to this coin though.  The academic side powered my path through life (full ride academic scholarship to university, then rode academic achievements there into a great job), but I also played tons of sports as a kid.  I've been the epitome of a "nerd" my whole life...always doing well in school...playing video games (even met my wife on World of Warcraft)...but as an adult, I don't feel that I'm nearly as "nerdy" as many others were.  I attribute a lot of that to playing sports as a kid.  Practices, playing in games, and being on a team all develop skills that can be just as important in the real world as the academics.

 

I do software development/support and so I've seen soooooo many candidates come in that went to great schools, made good grades, and even actually know the stuff for the job, but they can't carry on a normal conversation with another adult to save thier lives.  Obviously it's a small sample size, but I have fairly consistently noted that people who played sports growing up are better communicators and generally interact with others more naturally.  In our round-ups after interviews, we always ask about the "sit next to" factor of would you want to sit next to that guy/girl all day 5 days a week.  It matters.

 

Now that said I'm not saying you HAVE to play sports or that kids should be forced to play sports...or pressured to achieve a certain level of athletic ability or success.  There's a balance of course, and nobody wants their child to become one of those people that the peak of their life was captain of the high school team.  In general though I just feel that exposing kids to sports is a good thing and lets them develop some important life skills that are hard to learn later.

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I agree Vyrolan, if from no other perspective than health it is important - the socialising aspects of sports participation are part of the mental health benefit (mens sana incorpore sano). My (badly worded) comments were more for those parents who feel that academia of any kind is pointless when 'their kid is gonna be the next [insert sport here] star earning however many million'. As you rightly pointed out - it is all about balance.

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My college athletics will always be with me. They qualify me to provide health leadership for my family and my students. This health is critical for brain development. They qualify me to provide balance in club sports where some young ones are prone to depend too much. They are on par with my musical training, and I do not say this lightly. I am a music educator. The biggest difference between the two is that athletic involvement must change with age. The same health benefit can be had in farm work. Farms are few and far between in the city. One football field and track can service a large community. Does anything I wrote matter? Maybe only to say that this is more complex than we are likely to fully develop but the conversation is fascinating.

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I will clarify myself.

I, in NO WAY said I didn't like sports.

I,m not a big fan of football, basketball or baseball but, I love motor racing and enjoy socker, swimming and other sport venues.

I said that I REALLY DON'T LIKE PRO sports in general.  

There are so many other people in our everyday lives that really deserve a much better wage for serving the public.

School teachers generally help our future by teaching our children values, leadership, as well as the three "R,s".

Policemen enforce the laws and put their lives in danger everyday to keep us safe.

Firemen needless to say are called on at anytime of the day or night and ask to risk their lives as well as provide emergency services.

Military people are also put in danger from time to time to keep the country free.

BUT THERE IS NOT ONE FOOTBALL PLAYER ALIVE THAT DESERVES TO GET SIX MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR PLAYING A GAME!

 

Rog 

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I'll clarify my earlier statement to mean that I have absolutley no interest in WATCHING sports. I enjoy many types of physical activity, but prefer to partake of 'loner' sports, where the only competition is between me and my previous best performance.

What really twists my shorts is parents who not only push their children to the limit (I see on the local news where at least one high school football player dies on the field every stinking year), but themselves are so competetive as to get into fistfights with refs or other parents over what happens on the field of play (happens at the chess club as well!).

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I'll clarify my earlier statement to mean that I have absolutley no interest in WATCHING sports. I enjoy many types of physical activity, but prefer to partake of 'loner' sports, where the only competition is between me and my previous best performance.

What really twists my shorts is parents who not only push their children to the limit (I see on the local news where at least one high school football player dies on the field every stinking year), but themselves are so competetive as to get into fistfights with refs or other parents over what happens on the field of play (happens at the chess club as well!).

 

 

I hear you there! 

Believe it or not.....

In Wichita Kansas, a parent with brass knuckles pulled a knife on his sons coach because his boy wasn't playing enough!

In response, the coach went to his car and brought back a hand gun and pointed it at the crowd to show defiance. Then the coaches wife stepped up revealing her hand gun!

Just how important are sports to us?

 

Rog

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