Comments on: It's over but it hasn't started yet

By: Grandad

Grandad — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:41:09 +0000

Baino – I saw that on the BBC. It cheered me up, as at least I have the sailing to look forward to!

Flirty – All the bodies look alike though – the men and the women. I think it must be the steroids or something?

Welcome Carrier! Of all sports, boxing must be the worst. I suppose it is better for the John Joes to beat each other’s brains out there than in the local pub?

By: Carrier

Carrier — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:08:57 +0000

The Olympics will be a total nightmare. I’d normally watch the boxing, but this year two of the five Irish lads to qualify are called John Joe. I couldn’t give a shite what the Chinese do to Tibet but the fact that 40% of Irish boxers taking part are called John Joe is enough to warrant a boycott of the whole thing in my view.

By: flirty

flirty — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:23:10 +0000

At least the athletes have really good bodies, so I can drift into a sports coma with a smile on my face.

By: Baino

Baino — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:47:16 +0000

I’m not a fan of the tennis but fortunately Wimbledon is on late at night here so not too intrusive. NRL football on the other hand is on about 3 channels all weekend which really irks me and the news (I use the term loosely) is 15 minutes of world affairs and 15 minutes of sport, usually tribunals where some simeon thug is being court martialled for spear tackling or causing a brawl in a nightclub . . . as for the olympics . . have you seen the algae bloom on their sailing course? Now that’s bog sailing if ever I’ve seen it!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/beijing2008/10000-to-clean-up-algae-at-beijing-olympics-venue/2008/07/01/1214677989844.html

By: Grandad

Grandad — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:29:42 +0000

Andrew – Shooting is a mans sport. It doesn’t involve poncing around a field chasing a ball, or running around in circles. And I don’t oblige people to watch. In fact, you could say that I actively discourage it.
I’m aware of the tennis players because in those days, it was a sport and not a business that was played by amateurs. Also, I used to stay with my uncle, most summers and he had a television where I didn’t, so there may have been a novelty element?

TT – Good point. Grandad’s First Sporting Law – “Interest in sport is inversely proportional to the pronounceability of the player’s name”

By: tt

tt — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:10:47 +0000

I quit watching the Olympics with the fall of the Soviet bloc. It just didn’t seem to be as much fun thereafter. As for football, it’s called that for a reason. You kick the ball with your feet. Our American football should more properly be refered to as toss and catch. Which is why the rest of the world plays soccer.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:05:44 +0000

Isn’t shooting a sport?
I understand people who aren’t bothered with sport on TV, but to not have interset insport at all is just odd. You obviously do have an interest though, cos you’re well aware of all the classic tennis players.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:43:10 +0000

Andrew – It was NOT Songs of Praise. It was a drama that was supposed to be on at nine, and has now been deferred until next week.

If you are going to start this macho thing that if I don’t like sport I can’t be a man, then you are aiming for a punch-up. I had enough of that at school. I am as male as the rest of ‘em and I hate sport. I find it boring. Most of all, I hate the assumption that everyone loves sport.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:35:10 +0000

“I like my programme to be on as scheduled.”

It WAS Songs of Praise, wasn’t it? Did you not see the message on the bottom of the screen saying they’d switched it to BBC 2?

Honestly, the only other male blogger I know of who’d write a post giving out about all the sport on TV is Darren. You’re not gonna start wearing a man bag now, are you Grandad?

By: Grandad

Grandad — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:34:00 +0000

BB – Haha!! Chance would be a fine thing.

Sam – I watched a bit of it [hoping in vain that it was nearly over] and they were incredibly skillful. But that’s just it – they are honed to perfection, so there is no longer the feel of a game but of one training regime against another.

I admire their dedication, but I would love to see the job description of a professional tennis player: He hits the ball at me and I hit it back.