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Post by 19delta on Aug 17, 2008 5:28:50 GMT -6
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Post by liberalhater on Aug 17, 2008 6:29:10 GMT -6
It is a joke because it wont be a competition for years. American basketball is proving that our athletes are superior to almost anybodies in sports Americans watch. Basketball, football, and not so much baseball. Its just rediculious to watch the redemption team win on almost pure athleticism.
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Post by coachweigelt on Aug 17, 2008 6:38:06 GMT -6
I think this is a good step, maybe then everybody else wakes up and realises why the "American Sports" are so dominated by the US. For meit starts at the school system, where there is only 90 mins of sport for 1 week. How can you be sportive with that limited training time?
Then furthermore it goes to the semi pro leagues, they train once maybe twice a week. If the sports would be integrated in the school as you guys have it in the states the "American Sports" will be spreaded all over the world. Heck we even fight for the training field with the soocer guys, and since soccer is so popular in germany we almost lose all the time...
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Post by liberalhater on Aug 17, 2008 6:44:54 GMT -6
dont worry their is a push to make the USA more like europe. Just listen to our politicians and judges.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 17, 2008 6:47:17 GMT -6
It is a joke because it wont be a competition for years. American basketball is proving that our athletes are superior to almost anybodies in sports Americans watch. Basketball, football, and not so much baseball. Its just rediculious to watch the redemption team win on almost pure athleticism. Team USA shot 50% from beyond the 3-point arc against a very good team from Spain and hit 80% of their free throw throws, as well. That is HARDLY "winning on pure athleticism".
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Post by coachweigelt on Aug 17, 2008 6:49:00 GMT -6
dont worry their is a push to make the USA more like europe. Just listen to our politicians and judges. omg, but then you would have to actually like europe Let,s face it a FB player who has played since he is 4 is always going to be much better than the guy who can only starts at 14. And it is like that in any sport in europe, maybe except Soccer and Golf!
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Post by 19delta on Aug 17, 2008 6:56:24 GMT -6
liberalhater...hijacking threads with half-witted, angry, and insane political and social commentary since December '07.
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Post by coachweigelt on Aug 17, 2008 7:11:33 GMT -6
It is a joke because it wont be a competition for years. American basketball is proving that our athletes are superior to almost anybodies in sports Americans watch. Basketball, football, and not so much baseball. Its just rediculious to watch the redemption team win on almost pure athleticism. Team USA shot 50% from beyond the 3-point arc against a very good team from Spain and hit 80% of their free throw throws, as well. That is HARDLY "winning on pure athleticism". Well he probably talking about the Jordan dream team
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Post by wingtol on Aug 17, 2008 10:35:45 GMT -6
This will never happen. Never. Look at baseball that's out after this year and has a bigger world base than football. Not to mention there is no official world goverening body. Then there are the pesky Olympic requirements:
In order for a sport or discipline to be in included on the Summer Olympics program (but not necessarily be contested at the Olympics), it must be widely practiced by men and women, in at least 75 and 50 countries, respectively, spread on four continents.
Not sure how world wide football is but I don't think it cuts it.
Plus who would play for the US? Seems like all levels are at full go during the Olympics so there would be a huge shortage of players.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 17, 2008 10:49:19 GMT -6
This will never happen. Never. Look at baseball that's out after this year and has a bigger world base than football. Not to mention there is no official world goverening body. Then there are the pesky Olympic requirements: In order for a sport or discipline to be in included on the Summer Olympics program (but not necessarily be contested at the Olympics), it must be widely practiced by men and women, in at least 75 and 50 countries, respectively, spread on four continents. Not sure how world wide football is but I don't think it cuts it. Plus who would play for the US? Seems like all levels are at full go during the Olympics so there would be a huge shortage of players. That's why I think this is some kind of advertising scheme... If you watched the video, Manning's "justification" for adding football to the Olympics is that 1) it is "bogus" (Manning's term) that it isn't already an Olympic sport and 2) It would be easy for the US to win the gold because most other countries don't play American football. Not exactly compelling reasons...this must be some kind of marketing ploy for some product Manning is endorsing.
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Post by coachd5085 on Aug 17, 2008 10:54:40 GMT -6
Ummm.it is a joke fellas.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 17, 2008 11:12:10 GMT -6
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Post by k on Aug 17, 2008 11:51:00 GMT -6
dont worry their is a push to make the USA more like europe. Just listen to our politicians and judges. Which is preferable to liberalhater's attempt to make it more like Iran.
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Post by 1ispread on Aug 17, 2008 12:40:18 GMT -6
Is liberalhater really a coach?
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Post by wingtol on Aug 17, 2008 14:35:15 GMT -6
Is liberalhater really a coach? Who cares he's funny and seems to subscribe to the same thought process as I do
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Post by liberalhater on Aug 18, 2008 5:08:30 GMT -6
Have they not all but eliminated mandatory Physical Education? Their is thread after thread about kids playing video games instead of playing athletics or having problems getting kids out to play team sports.Their are other threads that have coaches complaining about how much time "coaches" spend on football they supposedly love. We have a couple more threads that would all but eliminate blocking from the game of football that would lead to the elimination of tackling from football. The scariest part of all of this is the number of coaches, and I use the word coach lightly, who buy into it all. Someobdy ask on here if I was a coach. that same person needs to look in the mirror. Because some of the items that are listed here are no brainers for all the coaches I know. And they dont agree with you.
Look at the overall shooting for the team USA. Its not impressive. Look at the Turnover margin and actually watch the games. Spain is how good they could be. China is how good they have been.
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