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| chol | | posted 30-Oct-2006 9:48am |
The really unfortunate thing about events like this is that the athletes have special status as celebrities or heroes to young people watching them. This tends to legitimize the violence. If they were only ordinary people, they would be written off as jerks. |
| Enigma | | posted 30-Oct-2006 10:35am |
Fights don't bother me that much during a hockey game as long as it's not really a dirty hit. I wouldn't think much of a baseball player that cracked someone over the head with a bat though. Pretty hypocritical of me eh? |
cloudhugger    | | posted 30-Oct-2006 10:42am |
There is an instant air of excitement in the air, but not a good excitement. I am glad it doesn't happen oftener. I went to a hockey game once, and within the first minute there was a fight and the crowd stood up. It didn't get any better after that. I didn't see any hockey game, just the backs and rear ends of a bunch of morons standing up and sitting down up and down who, when they are not at a sports event are the ones most likely to cause gaper's blocks on a freeway hoping for a glimpse of a loose eyeball at the scene of an accident.
I like a great competition, and I understand how the meet can get heated up, but a true proffesional should really be able to handle their little criseses under duress. I played sports, and I have watched sports, and the adrenaline gets cranked and it is like a drug. It can go three ways, cranked on adrenals can give that athelete the edge to go above and beyond. A toxic adrenal buzz can cripple the sporters reactions into a flurry of fists and spitting. (ewww). I really prefer to see a good game, not a bunch of bullys disrespecting each other.
Instead of penalizing, support needs to be addressed. Alot of these sports heros are carrying around alot of personal demons just waiting for someone to give them a reason to go nuts. To be the best does not mean it's ok to lose control.
I won't even get into the safety of the fans in the stands. That's another issue. |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to Enigma) posted 30-Oct-2006 10:42am |
Enigmatic. |
Zang   | | posted 30-Oct-2006 10:47am |
My "feelings" are not effected by the behavior of professional sports players. My impression of a fight between professional sport players would depend largely on the sport. Some sports; boxing, wrestling, martial arts...are essentially all about fighting. In hockey, it is so commonplace as to be rather mundane. If I were to see a fight break out on the tennis court it would be unusual enough to get my attention. Similarly, if I saw a fight break out during a synchronised swimming or luge event, it would be worthy of notice.
You don't see a lot of fights in the Olympics. |
| Amanda | | posted 30-Oct-2006 11:14am |
I think it shows they're not good sportsmen, but I find it exciting and sometimes funny. |
| Jody | | posted 30-Oct-2006 12:20pm |
I think it sets a really bad example for today's youth. |
| cerealkiller | | posted 30-Oct-2006 2:49pm |
I want to see blood and gore |
| Maarten | | posted 30-Oct-2006 4:36pm |
Usually it's the heat of the moment. All those machos. All that testosterone. All that will to win.
Let them be. Those big kids. |
Melf  | | posted 30-Oct-2006 6:10pm |
I'm indifferent. They're not 'better' people just because they're sportspeople. |
| MiniMary | | (reply to bill) posted 30-Oct-2006 6:17pm |
I'm sure it is just testosterone, but I truly believe that they feel that they have a just cause to fight. I'm sure it is not done for showmanship or for an audience. There is a lot of energy released in the harder contact sports. But baseball. I find hard to see them getting TOO wound up. Mostly, it is just standing around. |
| MiniMary |
I think that they have no more personal demons than the rest of us. At an ER Code, I don't smack a nurses aide for bringing me the wrong medication......just waiting for her to do something like that (while carrying around my person demons). |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to MiniMary) posted 30-Oct-2006 7:06pm |
But your adrenaline is not pumped up and you are not in the zone as proffesional atheletes during competition. Plus i would venture to say that you probably had sensitivity training that is not available to pro atheletes. |
| RGirl | | posted 30-Oct-2006 7:18pm |
Really I don't care but I'll say I wish it would happpen less & it shows poor sportmanship. Grow up basically. |
| MiniMary |
Well, I do not know what sensitivity training I would need that would tell me "not to smack a nurses aide", but CH...your adrenaline IS pumped up, very high in a trauma emergency...you are so fast moving on automatic pilot and everyone else must be, as well. There have been time that I have wanted to smack a nurses aide, but no one should harm anyone else. That is my core belief. |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to MiniMary) posted 30-Oct-2006 7:29pm |
It is still a bit different. Your end result is saving a life. An athelete's action is to get the ball in or through a hole. Getting hurt is part of the gamne. You are striving for no casualties, saving lives. you are thinking about a person, not an air filled ball or opponents running at you full speed trying to hit you. Your aides are not wrestling the needle from you trying to be the winner, or the hero, you are working together (hopefully) to remove trauma from a patient.
I understand that the adrenaline is pumping as well in a hospital, the actions are quite different. |
| MiniMary |
Well said....having never had to tackle someone for a football, I guess the 'life' importance is kind of low...despite the millions of dollars they receive. Reality in both case, yes: The seriousness: No....not when you consider a life ending instead of a touchdown.  |
| CGTREE | | posted 30-Oct-2006 8:19pm |
I don't care either way.... I think it's a little silly and childish... but they can do what they want. |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to MiniMary) posted 31-Oct-2006 12:06am |
Indeed. Life may seem like a game sometimes, but the struggle to live is not. |
| ROCKMAN | | posted 31-Oct-2006 6:02am |
I like it, it makes it more exciting. |
JessicaWoman99  | | posted 31-Oct-2006 12:17pm |
I do not like it and it is unacceptable in my opinion plus it looks so dumb and stupid to see grown ups fighting one another over a lousy game of football or baseball and hockey as well |
| kitti723 | | posted 31-Oct-2006 3:49pm |
Strangely enough I find it exciting but I do not enjoy boxing. I guess it's because I know the fight will be broken up in most other sports but not in boxing. |
| southernyankee | | posted 31-Oct-2006 4:47pm |
I think its entertaining. |
| gazelda1 |
Depends on the sport.. I mean isn't that the whole part of the fun of watching Hockey. |
| gambler |
I don't care either way................ it happens alot in english premiership soccer, or used to at least |
| judgescratch | | posted 3-Nov-2006 11:59am |
I don't care either way. |
| patarnone | | posted 20-Nov-2006 8:38pm |
I'm embarrassed at the lack of sportsmanship from these so-called role models. |
| madhatter |
Funny  |
| mandy | | posted 11-Jan-2007 12:15am |
I cheer! |
| mrmarm | | posted 14-Apr-2007 12:57am |
I hate it because it's all an ego without a secong thought. |
| docgbrown | | posted 27-Apr-2007 10:35pm |
Hate it |
| darkshadowsseeker | | posted 3-Jun-2007 10:52pm |
I don't car either way, but most of the "sports" I watch are floor gymnastics & figure skating. You seldom see fighting in those venues, unless you count Tanya Harding. |
| qdawg_07 |
i vote on who is gonna win i always vote on my fav team |
| clo8275 | | posted 16-Jun-2008 2:57am |
I hate that it happens, but it depends on the circumstance of the fight. Sometimes there's things worth fighting for. Sometimes you're gonna have some pecker-head that needs his ass put in his place. Sometimes you've got to stand up for what's right; protecting yourself or your team. As I said, I hate that it happens, but I make sure I understand the whole story of the situation before I can say right or wrong. |
| clo8275 |
Watch horror B-movies |
| clo8275 | | posted 16-Jun-2008 3:08am |
I hope Fealix reads my original comment before this reply. The guy with the ego may start it, but if he gets humbled by some guy that was simply defending himself. The "ego" may not be so froggy to act without thinking next time. |
