Off with his hand or Le Hand of GodFollow

Baseball: Hit a ball with some wood and run around in a circle before someone throws it to someone else.

Basketball: Bounce the ball while running and try to avoid letting the other team get it so you can throw it in a basket.

Football: Padding

On the other side:

Soccer: Trying to make the ball do what you want using only your feet all the while trying to keep other players from taking it from between your feet while you're running and trying to kick it at a goal defended by the only player who can use his hands.

and just because:

Rugby: Moving the ball to the end of the field on the other team's side, advertently being tackled to move the ball as far forward as possible, no padding.

Your american sports suck.

The British still haven't apologized to the world for cricket.

I forgot where Drift was from.

Edited, Dec 4th 2009 3:04pm by AshOnMyTomatoes

The lousy players play 1/3 of the game in basketball. The stars play 80%.

Okay? Your sport wins the participation percentage contest. Great.

Oh yeah, it's probably the top team sport in terms of cardiovascular endurance.

I'm a huge World Cup fan, anyone else care to predict a bracket?

(1st & 2nd)
Group A - France & Uruguay
Group B - Argentina & Nigeria
Group C - England & USA
Group D - Germany & Ghana
Group E - Denmark & Netherlands
Group F - Paraguay & Italy
Group G - Portugal & Brazil
Group H - Spain & Switzerland

2nd round
Nigeria beats France
Argentina beats Uruguay
England beats Ghana
Germany beats USA
Denmark beats Italy
Netherlands beats Paraguay
Switzerland beats Portugal
Spain beats Brazil

Quarterfinals
Nigeria beats England
Germany beats Argentina
Denmark beats Switzerland
Spain beats Netherlands

Semifinals
Denmark beats Nigeria
Germany beats Spain

Finals
Germany beats Denmark


Feel free to flame ^^

We need more gladiatorial combats.

No, they won't.

Way to go out on a limb there! :P

It's never to early for predictions, or at least that's what my sports book keeps telling me.

It would be amazing to make the quarters. I think it's going to take really strong play from the US to make the second round. After 2006 I'm trying not to get my hopes up to high.

Arsne Wenger came up with a good idea. The ref simply asks the player whether they handled the ball or not. If they lie as per the TV footage, then they get a very severe ban.

Quick and effective.

Spain or Brazil are so much stronger than the rest of the world cup teams I will be amazed if one or the other don't win it.

Spain and Brazil are always overrated. Not that they aren't in the top ten, but Spain will choke as always once they face a semi-decent team in the quarters or semis. Picking Brazil to win it all is too predictable and should not allowed. Portugal is the team to pick if you like spanish/brazilian type of play.

Denmark is vastly underrated, having topped a group that barely saw Portugal through and Sweden eliminated. Switzerland is also underrated.

For the AFC side, Nigeria has the experience and momentum (they have finished strong in the group stages) and a favorable draw to progress, coupled with other teams underestimating them. I also have Ghana making the second round.

BTW, the refs unofficially used replay to see Zidane's headbutt and eject him from the world cup FINAL with a few minutes to penalties. It would have been fair to do the same with Henry. This is a problem that needs to be addressed, I think instant replay should be official in the case of a goal scored or (possibly) a violent foul.