Sports

[flyingS]

This forum topic irritates the hell out of me. If I wanted to know about a bunch of bickering and whining about football, I would turn on the television. I was just reading some of the recent threads, I can't believe people put so much time into something they have absolutely nothing to do with. I know lots of sports fans, some are just nuts and others are average guys. It seems to me that everybody gets so caught up in the BS and starts arguing about who has a better team or what player is the best that they forget these atheletes are role models. With our media being the great reporting system it is we no longer here any thing good about anyone, so everytime one of these kids gets in trouble it is all over the TV and internet. Well your kids are watching these punks that are national heros because they can play, it doesn't matter if they are productive members of society. It isn't all the atheletes fault, but they are no longer positive role models, they are vicitms of media hunger for something negative to report. As far as I can see there is no longer anything good about sports, it's seems it all exploded with great athelets like Dennis Rodman who was as sorry an excuse of a human being as there was. He was in the news all the time though, because he was good and he was always in trouble. My feelings sure wouldn't be hurt if my kids wanted to watch the NFR or the olympics and skip college and pro sports. I sure don't want them idiolizing any of these punks that seem to catch the lime light. I know there are good kids out there and lots more than bad. The old saying still runs true "One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel." That's my rant for the year. Let the fighting begin. I am sure someone will tell me how great one of these criminals are. Michael Jordan even had flaws, but OJ made him look like a saint.

 

[Denny]

Most everyone has flaw's. Luckily knowone is watching us all that close.

 

[LazyWP]

Most everyone has flaw's. Luckily knowone is watching us all that close.

I think you missed the point, but what ever.

 

[JF Ranch]

FlyingS,

You've swerved into an interesting topic here. Although I love certain sports and admire the talent and athletic ability of the modern athlete, I agree that as a whole, our culture has placed far too much importance on sports today, even in grade school. After all they're just games, right? Unfortunately, big money will change everything.

I have three sons who are sports nuts and keep up to the moment on everything that is going on. It isn't all bad though. They are pretty well grounded kids and will be successful, I think. I've watched as sports has given them a direction to push themselves to excel, even at the college level. Competition makes everything better and excellence is a good thing.

I've always blamed Muhammed Ali for changing all that. Athletes used to be humble and proved themselves during the game. They didn't do all the showboating we see on TV today. But, people seemed to like all of Ali's poetic bragging and in the many years since, it has gotten ridiculous. While I personally dislike all the victory dances and attention grabbing antics, I still admire the athlete who quietly goes out and beats his opponent. That is far more impressive to me than all the cockiness that we see on television.

What can be done about it? I don't know. It probably won't get any better. As individuals we can choose to not watch it. If enough folks switch channels and ratings fall, then perhaps it could change. However, I don't look for that to happen.

This forum topic irritates the hell out of me. If I wanted to know about a bunch of bickering and whining about football, I would turn on the television. I was just reading some of the recent threads, I can't believe people put so much time into something they have absolutely nothing to do with.

What you said there is a pet peeve of mine too. There are several good guys on Ranchers.net that get way too stupid on this forum. I don't enjoy it and many times refuse to read some of those posts, similar to turning off the TV set. But I wish team loyalties could be expressed in good fun and not get so nasty.

 

[flyingS]

JF no doubt your boys have been successful. I would have to say that sports have not made them successful though. The up-bringing your children recieved as well as the educational system they were involved in made them successful. Their parents taught them if they wanted to be successful at something they had to work for it. They also were expected to maintain a standard educationally, realizing that they had to dedicate themselves to their academics in order to get to play sports. While they may have learned a lot playing high school and college ball, the foundation was built at home. I feel that I have gotten to know you well enough that I can safely say, your boys learned the value of humility and hard work as well as manners and respect. What we see today in a good deal of the media is lacking 3 out of 4 of those three key words. Unfortonuately they are far more important than the other. Respect, manners and humility are things learned at home and generally can not be learned past a certain age. Many kids figure out later in life that if they work hard they can achieve anything, some of them have to work far harder than others because the foundation was never built at home. Those kids without a foundation are the ones we see in the media acting like a bunch of thugs. Next thing you know a bunch of sports fans are not acting much different than the punks we read about and see on TV. It is disappointing to say the least. I know men that are far more loyal to their team than they are their own wife and family. There is truely something wrong with that.

 

[loomixguy]

Other than Denny, you guys live in the wrong part of the state. Down here on the KS/NE border, insults concerning our prospective college football teams is a way of life....always has been, and ain't gonna change anytime soon. Libs is a good guy who just happens to root for the wrong team, but since he was born here, I know at the end of the day he's a closet Husker and doesn't mean any harm by imagining himself a K State fan. I know Libs personally, and other than his obsession with KooKooKatchoo he's OK. I even like his Herefords! I know it's all in fun, Libs knows it's all in fun, so there ya have it.

I guess if you find it distasteful, do our posts like I do flounder's. Ignore them.

Geese have been flying overhead for a week now, and today it's over 50 degrees with no wind. Life is good!

 

[LazyWP]

Other than Denny, you guys live in the wrong part of the state. Down here on the KS/NE border, insults concerning our prospective college football teams is a way of life....always has been, and ain't gonna change anytime soon. Libs is a good guy who just happens to root for the wrong team, but since he was born here, I know at the end of the day he's a closet Husker and doesn't mean any harm by imagining himself a K State fan. I know Libs personally, and other than his obsession with KooKooKatchoo he's OK. I even like his Herefords! I know it's all in fun, Libs knows it's all in fun, so there ya have it.

I guess if you find it distasteful, do our posts like I do flounder's. Ignore them.

Geese have been flying overhead for a week now, and today it's over 50 degrees with no wind. Life is good!

So, why do you want to make asses out of yourselves in public? And don't tell me it a way of life down there. I lived in Kansas for a decade, and very rarely did I ever hear grown men acting like they needed their butts spanked, because of all the name calling! If you as grown men can't show some respect towards each other, how in the world do you ever expect the youth of America to grow up respectable?
If you want to rib each other that is all fine and dandy, just don't show your ignorance in public!!

 

[jigs]

I do not give a sh!t about pro sports. I think they are over paid babies. but I will defend my Kansas State Wildcats with my last breath. to love KSU, you must despise everything husker and ku...... that is just how it goes.


I am sure we go over the line, but the passion in high school and college ball is very intense, especially to a husker fan like loomix, even though his once proud team is now a joke in a pathetic conference, he still believes they are relevant...that kind of blind ignorance is what drives college ball....

if loomix was to drive here this afternoon, I would say to his face everything I said on here... and I would expect the same brow beating about KSU in return. KSU is a football AND basketball school...so I stay busy most of the fall / winter following my team. NU is barely a football school, and a basketball joke, so Loomix has little to do now but pick on KSU and lead tours through the Willa Cather museum that he operates and manages....

 

[4Diamond]

My feelings sure wouldn't be hurt if my kids wanted to watch the NFR or the olympics and skip college and pro sports. I sure don't want them idiolizing any of these punks that seem to catch the lime light.

Didn't an Olympian kill his girlfriend a couple weeks ago?

 

[eatbeef]

flyingS wrote:
My feelings sure wouldn't be hurt if my kids wanted to watch the NFR or the olympics and skip college and pro sports. I sure don't want them idiolizing any of these punks that seem to catch the lime light.


Didn't an Olympian kill his girlfriend a couple weeks ago?

Must be ok since he is an olympian and not in college or pro sports. You pry ought to take down your mizzou emblem so that you dont offend anybody with being a college sports fan.

 

[4Diamond]

flyingS wrote:
My feelings sure wouldn't be hurt if my kids wanted to watch the NFR or the olympics and skip college and pro sports. I sure don't want them idiolizing any of these punks that seem to catch the lime light.


Didn't an Olympian kill his girlfriend a couple weeks ago?

Must be ok since he is an olympian and not in college or pro sports. You pry ought to take down your mizzou emblem so that you dont offend anybody with being a college sports fan.

LOL I like a sense of humor, I better find a cow or hay bale to throw up there.

 

[jigs]

flyingS wrote:
My feelings sure wouldn't be hurt if my kids wanted to watch the NFR or the olympics and skip college and pro sports. I sure don't want them idiolizing any of these punks that seem to catch the lime light.


Didn't an Olympian kill his girlfriend a couple weeks ago?

Must be ok since he is an olympian and not in college or pro sports. You pry ought to take down your mizzou emblem so that you dont offend anybody with being a college sports fan.

LOL I like a sense of humor, I better find a cow or hay bale to throw up there.

what does Mizzou have to do with college sports?? are they going to get a football and basketball team??
:wink:

 

[4Diamond]

Must be ok since he is an olympian and not in college or pro sports. You pry ought to take down your mizzou emblem so that you dont offend anybody with being a college sports fan.

LOL I like a sense of humor, I better find a cow or hay bale to throw up there.

what does Mizzou have to do with college sports?? are they going to get a football and basketball team??
:wink:

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