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squareandcompass

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26. Why do you watch Sports.

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 12:56 PM

Feb 2014

Sports is a tool of mass distrasction. People who watch it waste their time and energy. Read here http://endalltyranny.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/sports-is-a-corporate-circus/

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SPOILER- USA vs RUSSIA men's hockey. SPOILER!! [View all] Are_grits_groceries Feb 2014 OP

Figures, damn gun nut humpers get in a shoot out with russians The Straight Story Feb 2014 #1

banz the high-powered puck. aikoaiko Feb 2014 #9

And make then use smaller sticks. No one needs those big ones The Straight Story Feb 2014 #13

high powered puck goes BOOOOOOOOOOM!! (in the russian net) big_dog Feb 2014 #25

This message was self-deleted by its author big_dog Feb 2014 #23

What a game! elfin Feb 2014 #2

Amen! Are_grits_groceries Feb 2014 #3

Great game maddezmom Feb 2014 #4

it was, wasn't it? OKNancy Feb 2014 #8

+1 nt narnian60 Feb 2014 #11

I saw USA win at Lake Placid maddezmom Feb 2014 #19

Putin's reaction: The Straight Story Feb 2014 #5

Heh heh! HappyMe Feb 2014 #12

You vill all spend time in the gulag! nt Fla Dem Feb 2014 #33

Was that live just now... ileus Feb 2014 #6

awesome ! nt steve2470 Feb 2014 #7

I loved it when narnian60 Feb 2014 #10

Another pic from the game: The Straight Story Feb 2014 #14

Oshie for the win big_dog Feb 2014 #31

Minnesota boy! Brickbat Feb 2014 #39

T.J. Oshie Botany Feb 2014 #36

a new american hero! big_dog Feb 2014 #41

He shoots .... he scores! Botany Feb 2014 #50

It didn't seem like hockey to me. I didn't see any brawls. Aren't there usually brawls in hockey postulater Feb 2014 #15

In international rules you get tossed for fighting. iandhr Feb 2014 #16

As it should be. I would watch more if it wasn't fit the brawls. postulater Feb 2014 #18

Try college hockey. bluedigger Feb 2014 #34

Are you familiar with Hockey East. iandhr Feb 2014 #45

Go Black Bears! bluedigger Feb 2014 #46

I am a Catamount. iandhr Feb 2014 #47

Before or after their program got suspended. bluedigger Feb 2014 #49

Sure iandhr Feb 2014 #51

The Catamounts are having a decent year. bluedigger Feb 2014 #52

Pros should be the same nt Logical Feb 2014 #32

Yes, there was an altercation 4 1/2 minutes into the first period groundloop Feb 2014 #20

Dammit, I missed it... penultimate Feb 2014 #17

I quit caring when the pros started playing. n/t A Simple Game Feb 2014 #21

It was a great game - I watched it. badtoworse Feb 2014 #22

One heckuva game. Bluzmann57 Feb 2014 #24

Why do you watch Sports. squareandcompass Feb 2014 #26

Miracle on Ice big_dog Feb 2014 #28

I am a sports spectator (but specifically and ~only~ ice hockey) because... Rhythm Feb 2014 #29

Almost as much of "a waste of time and energy" as trolling a celebratory thread. Lizzie Poppet Feb 2014 #30

I was thinking similarly... Rhythm Feb 2014 #44

Your post is distracting from the fun. HappyMe Feb 2014 #35

LOL Cali_Democrat Feb 2014 #38

so is dance, art, opera, reading fiction OKNancy Feb 2014 #42

+1 Jamaal510 Feb 2014 #48

YES!!!!! Rhythm Feb 2014 #27

Reportedly, hockey gold matters most to the Russians. grasswire Feb 2014 #37

hockey means more to them then the rest of the olympics combined big_dog Feb 2014 #40

Heheh... Puha Ekapi Feb 2014 #43