this is a sport?

But in America, sports is everything. If you aren't into some sport you are a loser. Doesn't matter if your good at other things. Look at where the big $$ goes in all schools. Not the acedemic programs, not even the fine arts.....all sports. Maybe that's a little over the top, but that is the way I've seen it in the schools I've dealt with. THe thought that the athletes who already are recieving great scholarships should get paid to play in college was more than I could handle. Check out U of Ne. Didn't stay long enough to see if it passed this year. :barf: :barf: How many of the athletes are on the teams because daddy paid off someone.....happens way more than it should. OK....I'll go back into hiding :footinmou :footinmou
 
thats right Mama.
Hell, in Texas, we had one cheerleader-wannabes' moms try to hire a hitman to kill one of the other cheerleaders so her daughter could get on the squad!

(that is not a joke)
 
mamav said:
...If you aren't into some sport you are a loser...
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Only if your opinion of yourself depends on someone else's definition. I spent six years in college, didn't even know where the gym was. the closest I came to participating in any sport was the doobie passing marathon. I graduated with high honors. I was a winner, not a loser.
 
I think the only time my father actually showed interest in my life was the one week I allowed myself to be talked into joining the football team by the coaches.

(they saw a big kid and figured I'd just love running around in the Texas summer in plastic armor.)

Somewhere near the end of the week one of the coaches asked me if I wanted to know what it took to be a good football player.
I was 12, so I didnt know that was a rhetorical question/lead in.
I said "no."
He looked a little surprised and said I better go home then.
So I did.

(I heard the head coach was mad at him for it, he even called my parents. I wouldn't go back though. It seemed like all the football guys were the dumber, trouble causing kids I couldn't stand during the regular school day. Why would I want to spend painful time with them AFTER school?)

You know, If I had put up with those low-class coaches, retard players and boiling heat, I probably would have gotten to go to college for free.
Instead, I chose Anthropology and had to go into serious school-loan debt.
Right then and there, I formally rejected that part of American life.
The people who ask big questions get the full price, people who can throw a football get in for free plus they get a free car and a wad of cash every week for "necessities".

I lived in a roachy, gangland hellhole of an apartment with my sister for four years while we struggled through college. (no car)
I slept with an HK VP70 by the bed and brother, I almost used it more than once.

F*ck football and every other organized sport. They are the parasites of the American educational system.
 
They are the parasites of the American educational system.

I don't think they could be the parasite; since the entire system is riddled with parasites.

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They are the parasites of the American educational system.
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Probably going a bit far. I can think of lots of other problems I deem worse with
the educational system...
 
Spectre said:
... I can think of lots of other problems I deem worse with
the educational system...
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The main problem with the educational system is the greed and stupidity of those in charge and those who allow them to be in charge.
 
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